Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But struggling to find the breath for it . |
| 2 | De Gaulle made limited overtures to all sides — offering the FLN an honourable truce ( " paix des braves " ) but refusing to negotiate with it as a political force ; throwing some rhetorical sops to the integrationists but refusing to embrace the cause of integration ; telling the army that outright victory should be its objective , but also saying that no resolution reached against the will of the Algerian people would endure for long . |
| 3 | On May 1 , 1990 , Savimbi reiterated his wish for peace talks with dos Santos , recognizing him as head of state but refusing to accept the MPLA-PT as the legitimate government . |
| 4 | He claims , for instance , that Locke 's ‘ intellectual bias ’ characterises ‘ our present use of language ’ , presumably using ‘ our ’ to refer to himself and fellow academics but failing to make the restriction clear . |
| 5 | In many cases temptation goes no further than desire or possibly trying but failing to seize the Ring . |
| 6 | But having prepared the tank to ensure the best possible water quality and filters that have a head start , the maximum stock to begin with is two fish ( though arguably this could mean two 3″ Barbs or a shoal of six 1″ Tetras . |
| 7 | But having viewed the past in romantic terms through the eyes of their hero , the authors bid farewell to him in his retrospective old age as the husband of the refound , finally-won love . |
| 8 | But having grasped the importance of the political sphere , they tended to pay inadequate attention to the need for a mass movement to bring about revolution . |
| 9 | But having made the distinction clear between the two modes it is necessary now to acknowledge that to see the relationship always in terms of contrary orientations may be an oversimplification . |
| 10 | But having snapped the thread which had led Hegel on from there to his speculative Absolute , they turned back to find the real meaning and reference of these objectifications in the subject which had produced them as forms of its own self-expression . |
| 11 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |
| 12 | The relationships that created a particular kind of community were real enough , but Warming resisted the temptation to regard the community as a kind of super-organism with a life of its own . |
| 13 | There is nothing wrong in wanting space to make a profit , but trying to make the profit from the pork-barrel is a foolish waste . |
| 14 | Tom agreed but trying to compose the letter brought on one of his headaches . |
| 15 | But trying to keep the peace between the two communities in Northern Ireland is no enviable task , particularly when both are apt to turn against the peacemaker . |
| 16 | Nervous ? he fingerspelt , following it up with the fear sign but smiling to take the edge out of it . |
| 17 | But following Puhlhofer the number of applications halved to 32 in 1986 and the number refused leave rose from 6 in 1985 to 13 in 1986 . |