Example sentences of "but [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your articles on women and workers make fascinating reading but provide us with little hope that a movement for change is likely to come from these quarters . |
| 2 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 3 | The idea is to buy a stick , then drop it ; not throw it mind , but drop it on one side of the bridge and hope it beats the others past the finishing line . |
| 4 | The august length of the Champs Elysées culminating in the sublime Arc de Triomphe with the eternal flame burning beneath it could not but fill me with reverential awe . |
| 5 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 6 | But wake me at eleven , or sooner if you need me . |
| 7 | Maybe not clothe her kids , but clothe herself from one . |
| 8 | If you want to make this into a big project , collect two or three different sorts ( 20 of each ) , but keep them in separate pots . |
| 9 | Move away to avoid flying directly over the field , but keep it within easy reach all the time . |
| 10 | But substitute something like modern art , or even more so religion , and the repercussions of positive or negative statements on the people who do it are likely to be considerably greater . |
| 11 | Thus index sequential files , even when processed by key , do not eliminate sequential processing , but limit it to one block . |
| 12 | Do n't shout too hard for money , but leave it at that . |
| 13 | So I would say , Have a go but leave it till last , when you when you 've done everything else and maybe you when you 've just checked through to see if the others are okay . |
| 14 | Rather than just putting these numbers into your I mean you will put these numbers into your calculator , but do it with that , leave leave your C R out of it and just keep it as T. |
| 15 | In the aerospace and motor industry contexts , composites use different components but deploy them to similar ends . |
| 16 | The present road and I do n't want to get into the detail of it but relate it to environmental costs against the so called benefits , would in fact cut right through there with a viaduct and it would actually start of on something like a twenty seven foot emba er a twenty seven foot high embankment and with a fifty four deep cutting . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not ready , Mr Tucker , but thank you for all you 've done . |
| 18 | But join us in ninety seconds and we 'll have a crack at it . |
| 19 | You can get a like , a similar one to this , perhaps not as good as this one but buy it for twenty quid nearly . |
| 20 | This has led to researchers making a distinction between central and peripheral information in a scene and the assumption that arousal will impair memory for peripheral details but improve it for central ones ( see particularly Christianson , in press ) . |
| 21 | Obviously there are ways to improve your efficiency in catching zander , but concern yourself with that once you have found them . |
| 22 | Eh , but have nothing in this farming today is it ? |