Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , I am aware of the health risks but believe the choice to smoke is mine , and mine alone . |
| 2 | Companies do the latter not to avoid losses but to spread the impact to match their income , Mr Gluckstern reckoned . |
| 3 | The Institute of Personnel Management says there would be job losses but puts the figure at 100,000 . |
| 4 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 5 | That it was the wrong remedy was discovered later when he was given a higher potency which helped the eczema but made the asthma worse . |
| 6 | It has been designed to be used by the professionals themselves who do not , said Moore Stephens , have the time or inclination to learn about computers but appreciate the efficiency benefits which technology brings to administration . |
| 7 | So general is this norm that the value of not being ‘ prejudiced ’ is even shared by the fascist writer who is at pains to deny his own prejudice but to pin the label upon liberal opponents . |
| 8 | The poet mocks the people for being taken in by the priest but lays the blame on the shoulders of the priest and ultimately on the church for failing to do its duty . |
| 9 | He pleads not guilty to murder but opening the prosecution at Liverpool Crown Court , Rodney Klevan QC said : ‘ Paula was found hanging by the neck from a rope . |
| 10 | Joshua removed his jacket , lay on the bed , turned on the telly but cut the sound . |
| 11 | After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible . |
| 12 | On ‘ Give My Love To Kevin ’ , he typifies the questioning tone of the rejected boyfriend , desperate to know all about his girlfriend 's new lover but recognising the futility of his inquisitiveness . |
| 13 | Or we could comply with the 30 October 1993 rule but amend the accounting reference date within the first nine months of incorporation , as we may , and draw up accounts to 31 October 1993 , which is within the seven day period allowed by s 223(2) . |
| 14 | These aforementioned studies were in non-diabetic hypertensive subjects but raised the possibility that similar effects might occur in diabetics . |
| 15 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 16 | On their clerk 's advice the justices rejected the submission but adjourned the case . |
| 17 | In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town . |
| 18 | He licked his lips but refused the challenge . |
| 19 | But Rowland 's offer has been dismissed out of hand by Brent Walker and unless the bond holders , owed £102m in all , agree to the restructuring plan involving BW 's 47 bankers it would appear that the directors will have no other alternative but to put the company into receivership . |
| 20 | Women wedded to men 's systems , arguing for resources and significance , have little alternative but to accept the context as given and learn as effectively as possible , to pitch in with the rest . |
| 21 | The Maggot was not taking evasive action but quartering the ground in search of our enemy . |
| 22 | This was quite clearly not an agreement between the employer and the employee but had the effect of being an indirect restraint on any employee who wanted to work for another member of the trade association within the two year period . |
| 23 | This method allowed us to generalise the result to all Scottish schools but limited the extent to which we could explore potentially interesting responses . |
| 24 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 25 | He stopped the spin but pitched the nose down rather violently . |
| 26 | It is now in a ruinous condition but has the distinction of being the oldest existing railway bridge over a river in the world . |
| 27 | Cross-addiction ensures that the weaker Fellowships receive support from members who have experience of stronger Fellowships but it may nonetheless at times be more helpful for a newcomer to receive slightly less individual identification but gain the experience of a stronger Fellowship . |
| 28 | This demonstration is intended to counteract the tendency for pilots trained on very docile gliders to remember the full opposite rudder but to forget the stick movement . |
| 29 | His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , who having fled Tibet in 1959 — nine years after the country was occupied by China — lived in exile in India , welcomed the lifting of martial law but expressed the hope that it represented more than a superficial " public relations exercise " . |
| 30 | By the way , I deplore the practice employed by some filling stations of having several premium unleaded pumps on the forecourt but tucking the standard and cheaper fuel , away in a corner . |