Example sentences of "but [verb] with [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Arthur Upton , formerly director of the NCI and now with New York University Medical Center , was gentler , but agreed with many others that the distinction between genotoxic and epigenetic is useless for judging risk to humans . |
| 2 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 3 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 4 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 5 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 6 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 7 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | THE assumption that information is stored in the brain as changes in synaptic efficiency emerged about a century ago following the demonstration by Cajal that networks of neurons are not in cytoplasmic continuity but communicate with each other at the specialized junctions which Sherrington called synapses . |
| 9 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |
| 10 | Such an ideal does not stand isolated from the practices which strive towards it but interacts with those practices , helps to construct them , and is in turn constructed by them . |
| 11 | They disagree with the Marxist view that women 's oppression stems ultimately from capitalism , but disagree with each other in what they see as the basis of women 's oppression . |
| 12 | Observations show that events are not isolated but interact with each other , often producing a complex situation . |
| 13 | But living with another woman — it 's like saying you can do without men altogether . ’ |
| 14 | The charter covers not only salaries , a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues . |
| 15 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 16 | King Philip travelled south in an attempt to make peace but faced with such stubbornness on both sides he was forced to return with nothing accomplished . |
| 17 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 18 | The mean velocity , for example , is the same at all points at the same distance from the axis , but varies with this distance . |
| 19 | IF EITHER PARTNER HAS ANY DOUBTS ABOUT STERILISATION AFTER COUNSELLING DO NOT GO AHEAD , but continue with another method of contraception . |
| 20 | BR 's latest class 158s are distinctly unglamourous coaches-come-locomotives but fitted with all mod-cons including baby changing facilities . |
| 21 | Working on the same principle as a jigsaw , but with the reciprocating blade in line with the saw body , it 's used in the same position as a hand saw , but held with both hands . |
| 22 | Labetalol is theoretically better , but experience with this drug in this condition is limited . |
| 23 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 24 | Much as we might like to , we ca n't turn the clock back on these fundamental changes , we have no choice but to proceed with all faith in the new and make it work . |