Example sentences of "but [art] [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 2 | " But the policeman did n't say anything about rape ! |
| 3 | But the Committee do not have to agree to this if it thinks that the new information is not important . |
| 4 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 5 | Critics say his paintings are worthless , but the buyer does n't agree . |
| 6 | Compulsory admission occurred where the doctor ascribed the sick role but the patient did not accept it or did not react at all . |
| 7 | But the battalion did n't give him that many evenings off during the week , and if she did n't see him when he was free it often turned out to be several days before they could spend another evening together . |
| 8 | ‘ But the wood did n't take me . |
| 9 | Outwardly it had been the easiest and quietest of times that the house had ever known but the unease did not go away . |
| 10 | Now we have lost one and want to replace it but the nursery do not grow it any more , and we can not find one that does . ’ |
| 11 | But the girl did n't know how to play and Dot had n't enough voice to explain . |
| 12 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 13 | Our Mum was not one of these and she knew it , but the knowledge did n't bother her ; she could n't care less whether she was liked or not . |
| 14 | She already knew what she was going to see , but the knowledge did n't make it any less unpleasant . |
| 15 | But the computer did not extend my power when I first worked on one in 1980 . |
| 16 | ‘ But the chairman did n't want that and results have improved anyway , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The fans chanted ‘ we want Sugar out ’ as they waited outside the court , but the chairman did not hear them he left court by the judge 's entrance . |
| 18 | Shiloh was some twenty miles from the camp , but the storyteller does not dwell on the sight of the Israelites ( and the Philistines , too ! ) twiddling their thumbs while the runner and then the ark are on their way . |
| 19 | Team members were greeted like conquering heroes on the return to Britain but the euphoria did not last . |
| 20 | But the truce does not seem to have aroused general opposition in England ; perhaps more serious in their implications for the regime were the disorders at Pontefract in the summer of 1323 , when a mob killed two officials guarding Lancaster 's tomb to prevent offerings being made there . |
| 21 | But the Trust does n't reach all those ‘ HRH ’ wants it to serve . |
| 22 | Sir Charles ’ terror was so great that his weak heart stopped , and he died , but the animal did not touch the dead body . |
| 23 | The section could have been summarized in the sidenote as ‘ arrest for non-arrestable offences ’ , but the draftsman did not dare to risk such Kafkaesque accuracy . |
| 24 | But the jury did not find that the boy might not have been revived had one of the others been killed to provide food for him . |
| 25 | But the depression did n't lift . |
| 26 | The larger firms usually had a ‘ wider range of contacts and resource immediately on tap ’ , but the respondent did not express a preference for them . |
| 27 | Stott gives us a thoughtful ‘ Ondine ’ , but the music does not move along very naturally and this water nymph is not sufficiently seductive and dangerous . |
| 28 | The revised standards are currently subject to exposure , but the Board does not intend to reconsider the decisions it took in approving the Statement of Intent . |
| 29 | But the board did n't change . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given . |