Example sentences of "but [verb] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It now appears that , in addition to this , I will be expected to part with a further portion of my income as a graduate tax to pay for my education , the last three years of which I am spending in hospitals , not only studying , but assisting on a voluntary basis with essential clinical procedures and tests . |
| 2 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 3 | The castle is ruinous , but lies on a green headland overlooking the harbour . |
| 4 | And this mode of distribution is itself not only technical — manuscript copying and then printing — but depends on a wider technology , primarily determined by social relations , in which the ability to read , which is the true substance of distribution , is itself produced . |
| 5 | Many people would balk at the thought of setting up a new business during a recession ; but to embark on a new accountancy partnership when half of it is about to have a baby would surely cause the strongest to flinch . |
| 6 | A further enzyme , alpha 1,4 fucosyltransferase , can also act on this substrate to produce the Lewis b antigen but acts on a different substrate to produce the Lewis a antigen . |
| 7 | I believe the story in the Bible — and other holy books — is a myth , but based on a simple truth . ’ |
| 8 | By intelligent , I do not mean intellectual , but based on a wise consideration of our emotional and physical needs , and those of other members of the household . |
| 9 | Tolkien was trying , then , to make Shakespeare more positive — a bold venture , but based on a clear insight itself based on very minute reading . |
| 10 | The RAF clearly regarded the group as a suicide squad , but laid on a slap-up meal . |
| 11 | Tax increases were avoided but spending on a wide variety of government programmes was frozen or limited ; one of the most controversial aspects of the budget was the plan to place a two-year freeze on increases in federal transfer payments to provinces for health care and secondary education programmes . |
| 12 | Master , I do n't mind being shot at , hunted , trapped , attacked — but to die on a frozen lake at the dead of night ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So you see , what with the Church never keeping adequate records and relying on the personal network all the time and the patronage system doing the same but relying on a different network , we 're all rather in the dark . ’ |
| 14 | There has been , I think has put it adequately very well , that there are members who 've turned up really for no real reason but to speak on a minor item which members of their group could 've taken on their behalf , and therefore erm , I , I do support that we need to look at that particular issue , and I think that can be dealt with under the present chairs arrange arrangement without having to have permanent chairs . |
| 15 | Below ground but paid on a daily rate , that is to say , at so much per stem , the list of jobs below , were still regarded as tutwork . |