Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , ritualism , abandoning the goals but sticking rigidly to the legitimate means of achieving them . |
| 2 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 3 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 4 | And indeed , the lexicon of " Diffugere nives " lends itself repeatedly to the construction of immanent linkages in the lexicon , a strain of metaphor not overt ( like the obvious figure of comae , " tresses " , in the second line ) but operating covertly through the potential spread of reference , the semantic leeway , in certain items of vocabulary . |
| 5 | We 're still married but living apart in the same house , if you see what I mean . |
| 6 | Not ignoring the bad side , but dwelling positively on the good side . |
| 7 | I certainly do not share the view of Charles Plummer nearly a century ago ( when the fate of Napoleon III was still fresh enough to point an implicit moral ) , that Charles the Bald was " a typical Frenchman in many respects , intellectually clever but caring only for the outward pomp and circumstance of empire without the strength of character to grasp and hold the reality of power " . |
| 8 | But going back to the 1944 triptych , you called it a base for the Crucifixion . |
| 9 | Simmons 's rooms were next to the staircase , not , as she had hoped , overlooking the quadrangle , but facing away from the main college building . |
| 10 | British policy towards the European Community could be said to involve careful application of realist principles — the pursuit of national self-interest , narrowly defined , through participation in the single market but opting out of the social chapter . |
| 11 | In ‘ God 's Cop ’ , Mark Day 's guitar is raw and rasping like it eats ten jangly guitars for breakfast ; rhythm and booze at its best , but gelling easily with the older , classic Bez-dance tunes ‘ Hallelujah ’ and ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , both still mesmeric , especially with tonight 's flashy light show , and ‘ Step On ’ still makes a stomping lingering finale . |
| 12 | That is not standards or objectivity , but giving in to the usual pressures from the National Union of Teachers and NALGO , to which Labour Members always give in . |
| 13 | But coming in from the shabby streets outside , which smell of coal and cement dust and Wartburg exhausts , the effect is of life and excitement . |
| 14 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 15 | In broad terms these show Britain riding high in the international league table in the 1950s and 1960s but falling heavily over the 1970s [ Freeman , 1979 ] . |
| 16 | This latter cloud rolled swiftly down towards St Pierre , hugging the ground , but extending upwards at the same time , so that it was almost as high as it was long . |
| 17 | Then I realized he was n't stopping outside Sunil 's house , but carrying on to the other end of the road . |
| 18 | Again two main dimensions emerged from parents ' answers , called love-hostility and control-autonomy but referring essentially to the same features as the dimensions described by Sears and his colleagues . |
| 19 | At first they saw only the little hand — the fist , decomposed but stretching out of the shallow grave . |
| 20 | From that standpoint he looks at world development , taking into account the technical problems but concentrating mainly on the moral issues involved . |