Example sentences of "[noun sg] but do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , paragraph ( b ) , like paragraph ( a ) , provides a remedy but does not create any new substantive rights or causes of action . |
| 2 | Make the ‘ low flags ’ area a nonstopping zone that is , retain the bus stops on the High Row side but do not allow any stopping at all on the lower side , say , from Woolworths to the Tubwell Row corner . |
| 3 | He had heard the phone ring but did not listen to what was said . |
| 4 | Supplemental oxygen increases oxygen saturation but does not reduce the incidence of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias . |
| 5 | Supplemental oxygen increases oxygen saturation but does not reduce the incidence of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias or ST segment changes . |
| 6 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 7 | He smiled into the empty fire grate but did n't reply . |
| 8 | He felt automatically for the light switch but did not turn it on . |
| 9 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 10 | Assistant coach Ray Clemence said : ‘ Darren was feeling the injury at half-time but did n't want to let the rest of the boys down by coming off . |
| 11 | He had hinted , as Maureen had done , that Pascoe was guilty of fraud but did not implicate him in the murder , and invited Wickham to accept that it was a political killing . |
| 12 | Research but do not build |
| 13 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 14 | These migrants differed in some important respects from the 46% of applicants who were non–enrollers , ( those who applied to a particular institution but did not go on to enrol anywhere ) . |
| 15 | Follow the path to the near right hand corner of the lake and then bear right , keeping the lake on your left and walk to the fence but do not cross it . |
| 16 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |
| 17 | Awareness of the social reality of the USSR , recognition that Soviet men and women experienced the same angst as those peoples living in pre-revolutionary societies disturbed Nizan but did not shake his faith in the ultimate justice and morality of the Soviet cause . |
| 18 | This looks like a C term but does not depend on temperature [ 21 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ The … the stuff that causes the heat in chillis ’ and I smile , because I just know from the way he phrased that that he knows the technical term but does n't want to appear too smart-alec ‘ is n't soluble in water , but it is soluble in fat . |
| 20 | Joseph took a glass from the officer 's tray but did n't drink ; instead he continued looking in his mother 's direction , ready to smile in sympathy . |
| 21 | Malpass put another cigarette in his mouth but did n't light it . |
| 22 | Lakatos offers Marxism and Freudian psychology as programmes that satisfy the first criterion but do not satisfy the second , and modern sociology as a programme that perhaps satisfies the second but does not satisfy the first . |
| 23 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 24 | A computer agency is a cheaper alternative but does not provide a guaranteed sale . |
| 25 | Punishing someone for doing the wrong thing may inhibit him from that action but does not establish a better pattern . |
| 26 | Second , there are situations in which the regulatory rule sets a less onerous standard than the general law but does not prohibit compliance with the higher standard , raising the question of whether the rule offers a " safe harbour " for those who comply with it . |
| 27 | He grasped Dalgliesh 's hand with a firm grip but did n't speak . |
| 28 | At the second Special General Meeting held at Keele University on September 12th , the proposal to create a register of Dormant Members for members who cease active participation of funeral or embalming work but do not qualify for Retired Membership status was rejected . |
| 29 | They could see that providing specialist support for bureaux was a sure way of improving standards of generalist advice work but did not think that NACAB should develop these services further . |
| 30 | Like most of the pupils , Gedge had not actually done any proper work but did not see anything anomalous about such a grandiose body . |