Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may use a type of emotional blackmail against you and other people close to him , by constantly demanding attention but refusing to allow other people to perform necessary chores for him , on the grounds that ‘ you do it better ’ . |
| 2 | City land available for house-building was further reduced by the building of railways and roads which often swallowed up not only building land but also existing working-class housing . |
| 3 | Film badges monitor exposure to external penetrating and sparsely ionising radiation but not internal or other forms of radiation , and the fact of being issued with a film badge to monitor external penetrating radiation could , for certain workers , be a marker of exposure to other forms of radiation . |
| 4 | I was not only losing weight but I felt better : fitter , more alert , more vigorous . |
| 5 | By the 1880s most of these provided not only bargaining machinery but health , old-age and unemployment benefits for their members . |
| 6 | Certain SS troops already causing trouble but this being dealt with . |
| 7 | It suggested that the system was not just marking time but actually losing ground in some areas : |
| 8 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 9 | It follows that a critical mass of teachers who see their job as not just delivering education but as re-creating it , in however small a way , is the absolute pre-condition for change that is purposeful and cumulative . |
| 10 | simple , good-natured plasterer , living in Bleeding Heart Yard , always seeking work but seldom finding it . |
| 11 | I therefore decline to don the straitjacket of those scientists ( not all ) who can only accept such facts as they reach via their own limited , analytic logic ; who tend to study the parts in ever narrowing detail but too seldom consider the whole . |
| 12 | He had already advised Donleavy in his bi-weekly reports that Hurley 's security arrangements were derisory , that all sorts of people with no clear allegiance were wandering in and out of NARCOG , ostensibly selling information but just as likely collecting it ; that agents and bona fide informants were being put at risk because of this , and that future DEA or inter-agency operations might well be fatally compromised from the start . |
| 13 | Ragu Bolognese p84 Raisins p61 Raspberry & Hazelnut Vinaigrette p28 Rice p56 Rice , Arborio p57/ Italian round grain rice , used for risotto , also called risotto rice Rice , Basmati p57/ A fine , long-grain rice grown in the Himalayas Rice , Brown p56/ Unpolished rice still containing bran but with the husk removed Rice , wild p57/ A brown grain grown in North America and having a nutty flavour Risotto Milanese p58/ A rich rice dish containing butter and Parmesan cheeses Risotto , Suppertime p13 |
| 14 | He 's usually teaching chemistry but it 's his first year of teaching maths |
| 15 | UK prices are still awaiting confirmation but it is likely that the Nikonos RS body will cost in the region of £2,000 . |
| 16 | UK prices are still awaiting confirmation but it is likely that the Nikonos RS body will cost in the region of £2,000 . |
| 17 | Professional punters can make it pay by carefully studying form but the average punter will end up with £81 for every Pounds 100 staked . |
| 18 | She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah 's friend Edie Meadows , who lived nearby , came in . |
| 19 | They 'd had a skinful so were n't in a particularly noticing mood but they saw and heard nothing , nothing except what they described as a kind of mournful whistling coming from deep in the wood . ’ |
| 20 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
| 21 | At the end of the day , if , having done all this , you are convinced that one of them is dishonestly taking stock but you can not find out which one , you can dismiss both . |
| 22 | At the moment we have a tour which has somebody else playing Lady but we 've got Judi Dench now so that 's that 's that . |
| 23 | No we 're not actually losing money but I mean with Traidcraft we are getting to the low point where we put borrowed stock |