Example sentences of "but [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial guidance would normally come from the advisory service but helping to put those suggestions into practice should be the role of the training services . |
| 2 | The two researchers do not recommend introducing pigs into existing woodland , but favour planting new areas specifically for a sylvopastoral system with pigs or planting trees on an outdoor range that is already in use . |
| 3 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |
| 4 | But to continue to proclaim these things , to continue not to ordain women , in the world of today , sets the church apart . |
| 5 | Stewart shared a third-wicket partnership of 179 with Robin Smith , one of four men who passed 90 in this match but failed to reach four figures |
| 6 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 7 | ‘ We drilled two wells whilst I was in Brazil but failed to find commercial hydrocarbons and the office was closed when the work programme was completed , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | If you would like to plant a silvery grey bed but want to add some flowers as well , you can keep to the silvery theme by adding pale and dark blues , creams and whites , all of which blend with the grey to give a stunning overall effect . |
| 9 | A spokesman for Vietnam Airlines said : ‘ She is in good condition , but has lost two teeth . ’ |
| 10 | The Perth professional , whose father engraves the winner 's name on the Open Championship Trophy , earned the 37th card on his 11th visit to the PGA School in November but has missed two cuts and finished 66th on his three previous Tour outings this year . |
| 11 | The boat has its original engine and mahogany hull but has had new decks and covering boards . |
| 12 | The implications of this theory are so powerful that the impact of modern linguistics on literary studies has not been limited to problems of literary language alone , but has produced new theories of the nature and organization of literature as a whole and indeed of all social and cultural life . |
| 13 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 14 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 15 | The Swedish government has reaffirmed a pledge to phase out nuclear power by the year 2010 , but has reversed earlier undertakings to begin shutting down its 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 16 | If we can but contrive to make two rooms warm , & wholesome , we will laugh in the faces of Gloom & Ill-lookingness . ’ |
| 17 | It is astonishing that the Labour party keep putting it on record that it is prepared to defend independent schools but refuses to allow poorer families to send their children to them . |
| 18 | As section 170 creates two offences , if the defendant fails to stop but later reports the accident , or stops but refuses to give any particulars , an offence is committed per North v Cerish ( 1959 ) 123 JP 313 . |
| 19 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 20 | Tomo Cesen , the man who almost certainly climbed the South Face of Lhotse but forgot to take any pictures , arrived for his session with a highly professional career package . |
| 21 | ‘ He hears it not now , but used to notice such things ’ ? |
| 22 | But the function of to be , surely , is not to supply logically independent existence predicates , but to help turn other words into predicates . |
| 23 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 24 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 25 | My feeling towards the pregnancy was one of absolute delight and excitement , but having worked 8 years since leaving school to get where I was it was a major concern to me that my work or my position within the firm should not suffer . |
| 26 | But having allowed these possibilities , Adorno does not accept the implications of his own gesture . |
| 27 | But having spent many years building up an effective distribution network , we see no reason why this network should be given away to our competitors . |
| 28 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 29 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 30 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |