Example sentences of "but [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Casteleyn noted : ‘ many libraries are unable to appoint a full-time training officer but tend to link the training function with another job , very often involving personnel work ’ . |
| 2 | They are also much appreciated by members but tend to run the risk of segregating members from the activities of the normal community . |
| 3 | Central and Fife are understood to be less enthusiastic but agreed to support the idea . |
| 4 | He was plagued by ill health in his youth but recovered to enter the vellum bookbinding trade , with which he was associated in a variety of capacities for nearly forty years . |
| 5 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
| 6 | But struggling to find the breath for it . |
| 7 | This concentrates on it but builds builds the platform on which other courses on advanced presentation skills and negotiation skills team presentation skills are all founded and so you 're able to er continue through er the courses . |
| 8 | Jack McGarva , defending , said his client was not responsible for all the graffiti but admitted causing the damage on a large number of occasions . |
| 9 | He said British Rail 's Passenger 's Charter , which was launched this week , ‘ looked good on paper but failed to tackle the heart of the problem . ’ |
| 10 | Giles led the team of surgeons who , in 1988 , fought valiantly but failed to save the life of Russell Harty , the writer and broadcaster . |
| 11 | Wilson journeyed to Hull but failed to heal the breach . |
| 12 | WHEN three European foreign ministers trooped off to Moscow last week , Mikhail Gorbachev talked politely about the Gulf war but failed to mention the peace plan he was about to launch . |
| 13 | In summing-up the judge directed the jury fully on the standard of proof but failed to mention the burden of proof . |
| 14 | ‘ The fourth aircraft dropped outside the Harbour in an attempt to run a torpedo through the breakwater but failed to see the result . |
| 15 | Automatic cameras snapped a picture of Nichola Grabauskas 's Metro number plate and the back of the breakdown truck but failed to spot the tow rope . |
| 16 | She was booked onto a flight arriving in London at midday but failed to board the plane . |
| 17 | Detectives searched the area with a helicopter and tracker dogs but failed to catch the man . |
| 18 | One of these contained some interesting mathematics but failed to solve the prize problem . |
| 19 | The handwriting was adequate but failed to convince the company 's audience of the board 's confidence in these matters . |
| 20 | The measures were designed to combat the economic crisis , rising inflation and industrial unrest , but failed to win the backing of the Green Ecology Party and the Communist Left Party ( VpK ) , on whose support the Social Democrats depended in parliament . |
| 21 | In ‘ 91-'92 the scum lost six games in total but failed to win the championship ( we all know who did ! ) . |
| 22 | Last week , the Government declared the apple spray , Alar , safe but failed to study the evidence which led the US authorities to ban it . |
| 23 | Their choice to negotiate for them over the property group 's restructuring is the American financier who , after a colourful career in the more maverick corners of the Euromarkets , agreed to buy the Marshalls money-broking business from British & Commonwealth but failed to find the cash . |
| 24 | He was later released but forbidden to leave the country . |
| 25 | Schaffer was still young enough to find his job largely exciting , but to find appealing the idea of being the force 's lone representative in the shadow of a major incident was not the same as embracing the reality . |
| 26 | In some cases ( for instance distress sales by receivers , in situations of insolvency ) both parties may know there is a doubt as to title but want to take the chance anyway . |
| 27 | If you missed the last two issues but want to enter the competition , you can send off for vouchers 1 and 2 . |
| 28 | ( Of course , the history of the discipline can be used not to question it , but to try to establish the canon , and to legitimate authority based on it . ) |
| 29 | In the aftermath of Suez , Britain had no other option but to try to repair the damage done to her trans-Atlantic anchor cables and to accept her position as an offshore island of the United States . |
| 30 | For instance , if you load Windows , but forget to take the mouse out of the bag , you can just clip the Toshiba mouse on and , as if by magic , a cursor appears . |