Example sentences of "but [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authority spending per se is not included but grants to local authorities and their total capital spending are . |
| 2 | This enquiry is similar to the one above , but refers to those facilities that are jointly used by neighbours over a third person 's property . |
| 3 | I believe if a player is down as a defender but plays in another position . |
| 4 | This species looks superficially like Amphioplus verrilli but differs from that species by the following characters : the tentacle pores usually have a rounded tentacle scale whereas verrilli has no tentacle scales and the ventral arm plates are flat not ridge as in verrilli . |
| 5 | He hears the rumbles of discontent — but points to concurrent rises in viewing figures and attendances . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 8 | It was almost certainly held together with dowels but has in any case been rebuilt twice , in 1867 and 1904 , with the use of ample numbers of bolts . |
| 9 | Fingerspelling does not , therefore , stand alone as a system but has in most cases become part of sign language for adult deaf People . |
| 10 | The seasonal cycle reaches 15 ppm at Point Barrow , Alaska , but declines to 1.6 ppm at the South Pole . |
| 11 | In Barra and adjacent islands , machair is widespread but occurs as discrete bayhead units , although Eoligarry machair is a distinctive peninsula joining the northern part of Barra to the central massif . |
| 12 | O. macrodonia has prickly leaves and grey-white flowers , but succumbs to severe frost . |
| 13 | Glaxo acknowledges the omission , but says at higher doses known cancer-causing agents do not promote DNA synthesis . |
| 14 | Miss B : ( Thinks , ‘ Inquisitive old so-and-so ’ — but says with charming smile : ) Of course I do n't mind , but that 's something I do n't discuss . |
| 15 | Quantitation of relative blockages is therefore completely valid for compounds 7 ( Fig. 2 ) , 4–6 ( Fig. 3 ) , 3 , 5 and 6 ( Fig 4 ) but leads to progressive underestimation of downstream sites for compounds 1–3 ( Fig. 3 ) and 1 , 2 and 4 ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 16 | The charter covers not only salaries , a minimum wage and maternity benefit but deals with many issues . |
| 17 | The Environmental Geoscience degree aims to train professional geoscientists eligible for the traditional geoscience professions , but concentrates on those aspects which are particularly important for the study of the environment . |
| 18 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 19 | Their free range stock is farm bred , but originates from wild animals in Europe . |
| 20 | Firstly , because patients who developed recurrent dyspepsia had another endoscopy before their next scheduled endoscopy , an unacceptable degree of bias could be introduced if the ulcer relapse rates associated with two drugs were identical , but relapses on one treatment resulted in more severe symptoms than those on the other . |
| 21 | The mean velocity , for example , is the same at all points at the same distance from the axis , but varies with this distance . |
| 22 | The section covers similar ground to a Class 4 transaction , but applies to all companies whether listed or not . |
| 23 | It is not a Rift Valley Cichlid , but derives from Central Africa , in particular Zaire . |
| 24 | Since then , not only has the number of records increased fourfold but advances in human learning have also led to amendments . |
| 25 | Money as abstraction furnishes opportunities for possession , but mediates in this relationship to give rise to some separation between the specificity of being and the specificity of having , since money alone does not determine its further use by its presence , and is entirely ahistorical . |
| 26 | Detailed instructions for the use of the IPF Problem Control Facility are not included in this section but notes on this facility are contained in Section 6 . |
| 27 | The full text is in Professional Standards Bulletin 6 and is therefore not reprinted here ; but notes on important provisions , with extracts from the current rules as amended , are to be found in Part III . |
| 28 | The action has nothing specifically to do with the technical content of the programmes but relates to wider difficulties between the Council of Ministers , the Commission and the European Parliament . |
| 29 | Pacey grasps the matter more perceptively when he says , categorically , ‘ he does not take refuge in the ambiguity of myths , but expresses with engaging candour and simplicity his own personal response to experience . ’ |
| 30 | By socialist accumulation we mean the addition to the functioning means of production of a surplus product which has been created within the constituted socialist economy and which does not find its way into supplementary distribution among the agents of socialist production and the socialist state , but serves for expanded reproduction . |