Example sentences of "[adv] but [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 2 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 3 | What steps has the Ministry taken to encourage farmers in those areas to consider alternative land use and to recognise that agriculture policy is no longer about prices only but embraces rural development , rural housing and rural agriculture that is based on their products ? |
| 4 | Panorama ( BBC-1 , Monday , 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for thousands of single mothers like these , who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ? |
| 5 | PANORAMA ( BBC1 9.30pm ) asks : Should the taxpayer foot the bill for the thousands of single mothers who live alone but have several babies and expect the State to pay for them ? |
| 6 | An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers . |
| 7 | Those accusations are always made by the same people who have all but destroyed public support for the local authority concept because of their blindness to the requirements of good financial management within local authorities . |
| 8 | Others , like the now all but vanished Saxon cathedral in North Elmham in Norfolk , are the subjects of academic papers by the staff of the Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings division of the Department of the Environment . |
| 9 | ‘ God grant that some editor somewhere is thinking about educating his staff in the need to check stories before rushing into print — an ethic of journalism which seems to have all but disappeared these days , ’ said Bob . |
| 10 | Sufferers are agitated and resist contact with others , some pace up and down by their work , others keep away but take frequent peeks . |
| 11 | The Prime Minister , John Major , offered support during a visit that ended yesterday but said British troops would continue only their ground operation . |
| 12 | I 'd got a stripe pretty quickly but lacked another qualification for the duties the colonel , doubtless a frustrated journalist himself , had mapped out for me . |
| 13 | It was young men now , older than herself ; she liked them tough and full of talent ; she was not ambitious directly but found that life with the obscure is less interesting . |
| 14 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 15 | The Buckfastleigh section , now known as the Primrose Line , has been leased to the South Devon Railway Trust who are supported by the Dart Valley Railway Association and will operate it very much as before but adding various events to attract railway enthusiasts : in this the Trust will have the fullest support and cooperation from the Company line . |
| 16 | ( In fact , Curtis Bernhardt , the director of A Stolen Life , claims that both characters were not only on-screen simultaneously but passed each other and interacted without the use of a double , except in a few over-the-shoulder shots ; unfortunately he had forgotten when interviewed how this was done . |
| 17 | Patients with spinal lesions above T5 are unable to contract their abdominal muscles voluntarily but generate abdominal pressure by intercostal and diaphragmatic contraction . |
| 18 | Matthew : Matthew follows Mark 's account very closely but includes two additions of his own : |
| 19 | He was heading for Inverness ultimately but made several sketching forays westward from Laggan Locks . |
| 20 | The world is now full of literary critics , some held to be important , who do nothing else but write literary criticism , and they all work in universities . |
| 21 | This was interpreted variously but making secondary education free , providing better facilities and raising the school leaving age were seen as the most obvious means to that end . |
| 22 | The use of these names became accepted by the recipient for most were not used derisively but became natural names . |
| 23 | Choate shows up the hypocrisy of former Administration members who oppose the Japanese publicly but take large fees for acting for them behind the scenes . |