Example sentences of "but [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 2 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 3 | Hyenas , to take another example , hunt in groups for zebra , but hunt singly for the smaller Thomson 's gazelle . |
| 4 | The assumptions used in these valuations vary according to local conditions , but depend heavily upon the assumed excess of investment returns over the rate of increase in pensionable pay . |
| 5 | It is worth noting that many of the most interesting studies of the language/ethnicity relationship are not quantitative at all , but focus qualitatively on the social meaning which bi- and multi-lingual speakers associate with the codes in their repertoire ( see further 8.3 ) . |
| 6 | Leopard seals , which feed on krill , fish , squid , young seals of other species ( notably crabeaters ) , and penguins and other birds , also occupy the outer edge of the pack ice , but range widely from the cool temperate islands to Antarctica . |
| 7 | The Red Scissortail has a prettily marked and coloured tail , but look also at the attractive scale patterning of the upper body . |
| 8 | You may object that I 'm only describing the kind of action that occurs in whodunnit stories — but look again at the short fictions that have moved you . |
| 9 | NISSAN might not be the marque that springs to mind when it comes to performance hatchbacks , but look out for the nifty little Sunny SR . |
| 10 | Rimsky-Korsakov 's Capriccio Espagnol provides an opportunity for the LSO to display its glittering virtuosity in one of the great orchestral showpieces — although there 's not enough hot Spanish sun here for my taste — and they then round the disc off with Grieg 's Two Elegaic [ sic ] Melodies , which are well enough played , but add little to the overall attractiveness of the disc . |
| 11 | But watch out for the one-handed play of the gifted Gabriel Minadeo and the goalkeeping feats of the high-kicking Emanuel Roggero . |
| 12 | First courses such as asparagus ( choose vinaigrette rather than butter , or better yet , fresh lemon to be squeezed over ) ; oysters ( almost no calories , but watch out for the buttered brown bread ! ) ; soused and smoked fish ( the soused fish — usually herring — is lower in calories than the smoked , but both are fairly light ) ; fish and vegetable terrines ( though usually made with cream , you get very little in a slice ) ; quails ' eggs ( without mayonnaise ) ; and stuffed or marinated vegetables . |
| 13 | Additional support for this model comes from the observations that the ranges in radiogenic isotopic compositions of the Bultfontein Floors metasomites overlap with those of the contemporaneous host group I kimberlites at Kimberley , but contrast strongly with the older , micaceous group II kimberlites of southern Africa ( which are not known to contain zircons ) , implying geochemical differences between the mantle source rocks of the two groups . |
| 14 | The longing for home embodies the feeling of loss not of a place , but of time , and , if I understand your teaching aright , we must not cling to it , but turn outward to the real world . |
| 15 | The following definitions are best known from his Dictionnaire de musique ( 1768 ) , but date essentially from the early 1750s . |
| 16 | The ants initially walk between the two but cross over to the bottom one at the point predicted if the ants are balancing the concentrations measured on either side . |
| 17 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 18 | Thus a learner may achieve a high accuracy profile in one context , which might suggest acquisition of certain forms , but perform badly on the same forms in a different context . |
| 19 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
| 20 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |