Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off to raid each other on the same night , but passed somehow in the darkness . |
| 2 | For example , in feudal society products were not ‘ of themselves ’ the property of the ruling class , but became so in the light of various political practices . |
| 3 | Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else . |
| 4 | In the event she did neither , but lay there for a while wondering what Johnny was doing , hidden away from her behind time 's misty barrier . |
| 5 | She did not aim for sleep , though , but lay there for an age wanting some of her anger back . |
| 6 | Anne hung back , but got past in a minute or so . |
| 7 | The Newfoundland cod population has crashed before , in the 1970s , but recovered somewhat under a quota system during the 1980s . |
| 8 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 9 | This does n't just mean doing a sedentary job but refers rather to the type of person ( who could well be a housewife , doing a basically non-sedentary type of job ) who calls the children to bring something from the next room rather than getting up herself , or who goes to great lengths to avoid journeys up and down stairs , or who will drive round for five minutes to find a parking spot near the exit of the car park rather than walk for two minutes … |
| 10 | He cautioned them to avoid crossing the Waste but to cling instead to the edge of the forest . |
| 11 | To change horses yet again would be , admittedly , an extraordinary admission of failure ; but to cling stubbornly to the neck of an ailing nag might be worse . |
| 12 | The number of practitioners in these areas grows — largely , no doubt , through the genuine fascination of their subjects , but swollen perhaps with an influx of refugees from the relentless advance of technological rigour . |
| 13 | The essentially complementary nature of contemplative and active life fully expressed in the Incarnation but experienced often as a tension for individuals could be reflected more freely in the whole society of Christians understood as the body of Christ . |
| 14 | In the face of a petition such as this , backed by the signatures of 105 of Stockport 's most eminent and respected citizens , the Goldsmiths were in an awkward position , which they decided to resolve by re-reading Sir Edmond 's will , to see what the Founder himself had intended : a classical school ( teaching Greek and Latin ) , without fees or social distinctions , but depending only on a willingness to learn . |
| 15 | Ophiopristis does seem to be similar in appearance to Ophiologimus H. L. Clark , 1911 but differs mainly in the form of the tentacle pore which is slightly smaller with larger tentacle scales than Ophiologimus . |
| 16 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 17 | He thanked her but countered cunningly with a query about who her friends might be . |
| 18 | But caught red-handed with a bomb in the glove compartment of the car she was driving , the mother-of-seven was on a mission to kill . |
| 19 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 20 | Sediment accumulation rates decreased in the north ( 58.024.5gm -2 yr -1 ) and central basins ( 44.416.6gm -2 yr -1 ) , but changed little in the south basin ( 41.715.1gm -2 yr -1 ) . |
| 21 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 22 | The JMCs had no power of their own , except persuasion , but reported directly to the State Security Council ( SSC ) , formerly presided over by P. W. Botha , which was considered by some to have become the de facto government where the real decisions affecting the country were taken . |
| 23 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 24 | The opted-out units are no longer under the direct authority of the regional health authorities but report directly to the Secretary of State . |
| 25 | The camps are rooted in the history of the state , but dedicated also to the present , and will be a part too of the future . |
| 26 | HOLIDAY HEARTBREAK : But returning home to a burglary can be avoided |
| 27 | This time , however , we were not going to the Consulate but driving straight to the border . |
| 28 | HARPY 's unified graph design leaves the system with little alternative but to work left-to-right through the utterance , since there are no individual components whose attention might be directed to one portion or another of the utterance . |
| 29 | Dissonant notes do not resolve , but leap away to a consonance in the same chord , as at . |
| 30 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |