Example sentences of "but [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hammer strikes , the string can not be dislodged from the nut , as it tends to be in a conventional 18th-century action , but is hit into the nut as in a down-striking action . |
| 2 | This shirt is put on over the head and does not surround the body in one piece but is fastened at the back . |
| 3 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |
| 4 | Ex-Fini Triber , Ministry Man and Revolting Cock Chris Connelly team up with the Tribe once more in a long and slow shuffling expedition that 's not necessarily a club-oriented track but is constructed from the fundamental elements of the club scene at least . |
| 5 | Next consider the more general case when A is not symmetric , but is expressed as the product of two symmetric factors . |
| 6 | The researchers admit that they have not yet achieved the ‘ ideal scheme ’ , for the switching is not truly random , but is related to the ( different ) periodic frequencies of the generators driving the standing waves in each cell . |
| 7 | Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display . |
| 8 | This is not a depressive or suicidal phenomenon but is related to the particular effect of the dissociative state upon the mind : ‘ If you have a full-blown experience of K , you can never believe there is death , or that death can possibly influence who you are . ’ |
| 9 | Einstein produced his general theory of relativity during the First World War , when conditions were not suitable for scientific observations , but immediately after the war a British expedition observed the eclipse of 1919 and confirmed the predictions of general relativity : Space-time is not flat , but is curved by the matter and energy in it . |
| 10 | In other words the tax is not spread over previous transactions , but is charged on the full amount of the sale . |
| 11 | The Cognitive–Behaviour Therapies share a central assumption that the response of a person to a situation is not simply a product of external rewards and punishments but is influenced by the individual 's idiosyncratic interpretation of their situation . |
| 12 | Evidence comes into his hand of nefarious dealings by Mrs Clennam , and he tries to blackmail her but is killed in the sudden collapse of her house . |
| 13 | Information about these processes does not disappear however , but is stored by the Mail System and can be displayed on the screen or sent to a file on the directory from which LIFESPAN is being accessed , to be read at a more convenient time . |
| 14 | A group of artists whose work differs widely in style but is united in the interest in landscape the portrait are at Durand-Dessert until 28 April . |
| 15 | In this exercise you will prove to yourself that you can invent something quite new , a change which perhaps connects with your own life but is seen from the outside , happening to someone else . |
| 16 | poisoner who kills one of his nieces for profit after effecting an insurance on her life , and is planning to do the same to her sister , but is foiled by the cunning of the dead girl 's lover , Meltham , assisted by Mr Sampson , the manager of a City insurance office . |
| 17 | The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland ( GSNI ) has a function similar to that of the BGS but is funded by the Department of Economic Development ( DED ) . |
| 18 | In aneural ( pros ) muscles , fasciclin III expression persists at the putative synaptic site for several hours , but is lost before the end of embryogenesis ( data not shown ) . |
| 19 | It is a discovery that changing concepts is a political activity : that it is not value-free , but is tied to the adoption of a particular interpretation of the world . |
| 20 | It is on the borderline between a true signal , indicating the nature of the coming activity and establishing specific relations within which it is intended to occur , and that type of signal which is not preparatory or externally indicative but is integrated within the form of a work : a type which we can distinguish as conventions , and which is so fundamentally important that it will be separately discussed , below . |
| 21 | These expressions may constitute either a promise , by which the maker of the statement intends that he should be bound , or a representation which is not intended to operate as a promise but is made with the intention and does have the effect of persuading the other party to enter into the contract . |
| 22 | This competence may not always be grounded in actual , contemporary ability but is based on the previous experiences of competence to cope within various industrial situations prior to the actual situation the worker finds himself in . |
| 23 | The fact that the basic state pension is not a universal benefit , but is based on the level of payment , . |
| 24 | Dutch elm disease is a floral hazard but is exacerbated by the transport of infected logs . |
| 25 | ‘ A significant shift in the predominant branch in the state apparatus , or of the relation between these branches , can not be directly established by the immediate exterior role of this branch , but is determined by the modification of the whole system of the state apparatus ’ ( Poulantzas 1969 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Ideology ’ remains a conceptual category for Lukács but is limited to the accounts of material , social relations that distort their true nature . |
| 27 | It is not , however , brought immediately before either House by laying on the table , but is deposited in the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons . |
| 28 | The model form is not obligatory but is recommended in the interest of both requesting and requested States . |
| 29 | The British commander who has to bring his team through the desert in Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ) seems hysterical and incompetent by comparison with the Dutch South African who accompanies them but is working for the Germans ; and the message of Ealing 's Dunkirk ( 1958 ) is summarized in one character 's closing statement , ‘ Somebody 's made a muck of it but I do n't think it 's the army . ’ |
| 30 | The commission estimates the population on the basis of the electoral register — but is working with the artificially low 1991 registers . |