Example sentences of "but be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 2 | Mr Gandhi may not have been personally involved in the Bofors contract , but his government 's clumsy efforts to keep the case under wraps have smacked of guilt , and the Prime Minister 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ image of five years ago has all but been destroyed by the scandal . |
| 3 | The staircase had all but been buried under the collapsing wall . |
| 4 | However , these ‘ schemes of experience ’ are not invented ex nihilo but are disseminated through the commonsense knowledge shared by members of the life-world , so that members come to learn the relevant typifications and their meaning ( see Natanson 1970 ; for an application of these ideas see Brewer 1984a , b , 1988b ) . |
| 5 | The recognition that ideas are not the pure result of cognition but are affected by the human context of cognition , can be traced back through philosophy — Larrain goes back to the fifteenth century to Machiavelli ( Larrain 1979 : 17 ) . |
| 6 | These still exist but are deposited in the bank . |
| 7 | Possible extensions to active word edges are not added to the Chart as soon as they are found but are placed on the Agenda . |
| 8 | They too stand at around 22 per cent , but are phased over the period of production . |
| 9 | The specific reasons for this are not known but are connected with the wider trend of not allowing claims for economic loss in negligence actions . |
| 10 | The appeal of microcomputers is particularly strong for those who have already defined their needs but are faced with the prospect of months ( or even years ) of delay while waiting for in-house programming resources to be made available . |
| 11 | Unsurprisingly , judges are not neutral in their interpretation of the public interest ( Griffith , 1985 , p. 235 ) , but are biased in the performance of their roles , both by their origins and by their location in a state structured in the interests of external business elites ; and where the law is implemented , in each case ‘ it will be found that an organized group had an informed interest in effective administration ’ ( Edelman , 1964 , p. 41 ) . |
| 12 | These findings indicate that the total faecal concentrations of fatty acids and bile acids are not determined by the amount of intraluminally formed complexes , as was recently suggested by Appleton et al , but are determined by the site at which this occurs . |
| 13 | These are not at all original or exotic but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat . |
| 14 | The peculiarity of the proportions ( published in French and English in 1791 in an essay dedicated to the Prince of Wales ) is that the measurements are not given direct but are based on the head , divided into 22 equal parts ( according to Percivall , Eclipse stood 16l/2 hands high and the head measured 22 inches ) . |
| 15 | Beneficiaries will continue to receive all payments with a tax credit at 35%. 27 Under current law , trustees of non-resident discretionary trusts are not entitled to a tax credit on a dividend but are taxed on the amount of the dividend received . |
| 16 | The trees around the house do not grow straight , but are bent by the north wind , which blows over the moors every day of the year . |
| 17 | of CalMac staff do not belong to the STG schemes , but are covered by the Merchant Navy officers ' pension fund , the Merchant Navy ratings ' pension fund and British Rail funds . |
| 18 | The syuzhet creates a defamiliarizing effect on the fabula ; the devices of the ryuzhet are not designed as instruments for conveying the fabula , but are foregrounded at the expense of the fabula . |
| 19 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | The escapement levers of the Verona piano anticipate the form of those in Stein 's later pianos but are mounted on the keys ( compare illus.13,14 ) . |
| 21 | ( Recall that the maximum and minimum are not global but are obtained from the measurements used in computing the current average ) . |
| 22 | Nurse prescribing should be an important component of care for those who have long-term continuing needs , but are living in the community . |
| 23 | Their dilemmas are similar to those of many adoptive families but are exacerbated by the racial and ethnic issues already discussed . |
| 24 | These blob areas are curious in that the cells have only poor orientation selectivity but are tuned to the wavelength of light instead . |
| 25 | As with most stress rules , there are exceptions , for example ‘ honest ’ , ‘ perfect ’ or , both of which end with two consonants but are stressed on the first syllable . |
| 26 | A lot is tied up in properties which are n't used but are owned by the church . |
| 27 | They are particularly favoured for Indonesian and Thai cookery , but are used throughout the Orient . |
| 28 | Most Croatian Serbs do not live in Krajina but are scattered through the republic . |
| 29 | Using H-thymidine autoradiography , Deschner , Lipkin , et al have shown that in high-risk subjects , proliferating cells are not confined to the lower two thirds of the colonic crypts , as they are in normal subjects , but are scattered throughout the entire length of the gland . |
| 30 | Obsessional neurosis is characterised , Freud argued , by the fact that the symptoms are not only debilitating , but are experienced by the person as alien ; they do not seem ‘ part ’ of him or her , and they seem discrepant with an everyday or normal sense of the self . |