Example sentences of "[verb] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Involuntary reception into care : if a child or young person is in a situation of acute danger the youth department is entitled to intervene , but parents or guardians have to be informed immediately and the case be brought before a court for a care decision before the end of the day following the admission ( s. 42 ) , Where force is necessary , the police department must act but under the professional guidance of the youth department . |
| 2 | Valerie is still hopeful that she 'll be able to get the school reopened but at the moment it looks as if this is as close as these children will get to being at Brockweir School . |
| 3 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 4 | and they sort of met and how they did n't hit I do n't know but at the moment it 's , well get the car back today it 's er been away being done , cos somebody smashed into him |
| 5 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 6 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant . |
| 7 | Yet the phrase had remained with him , particularly in its darker aspect , the way it appears to most of those who are bound by the puritan ethic , not as a haven to live in and enjoy but as a paradise to be expelled from . |
| 8 | They decline to be interviewed but in a statement to us said , this year , productivity has increased while the accident rate has fallen . |
| 9 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 10 | JILL HUNTER goes into the World Cross Country Championships on Saturday with her Olympic team place already booked but with a psychological hurdle to clear . |
| 11 | Females also croak but with a slightly softer tone . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 13 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |
| 14 | Emma can you concentrate but on the other hand I think that we would be missing something if we did n't point out that it has that side to it , alright . |
| 15 | Blue Cheshire is hard to find but worth the search . |
| 16 | A cheerful , bright , colourful rendezvous , difficult to find but worth the effort . |
| 17 | The door did not lead into the shop as Wycliffe had expected but into a minute hall with the shop door on the right , and stairs leading up . |
| 18 | At Hampton Ferry the Saturday match was cancelled but with a milder day the Sunday event was still going ahead Saturday night . |
| 19 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 20 | Quill pens , properly cut and ready to use , are difficult to obtain but worth the trouble if you want to make good ink drawings . |
| 21 | As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information . |
| 22 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 23 | After tricky negotiations between the two professors a judicious compromise was reached by which Heisenberg was allowed to pass but at the lowest level . |
| 24 | Juvenile Court proceedings can be reported but under no circumstances may any child involved in the proceedings be identified . |
| 25 | She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics . |
| 26 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 27 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 28 | How often do you dump a file on someone 's desk with a Post-it note on it saying ‘ do this ’ and get it back — okay — competently done but with no knowledge how it might have disrupted that person 's other work or even if they liked doing it enough to want to do more ? |
| 29 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 30 | The struggle of Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill — from sec to exec — provides the perfect scenario not only for power dressing but for the enactment of many dominant-5 mythologies about women , work and social class . |