Example sentences of "but he [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he discounts the German raid theory and thinks there was a British chemical warfare experiment which went wrong . |
| 2 | Mr Lilley says his changes would save about £180m in 1995–96 but he tells the Prime Minister that Mr Portillo wants him to go further in reducing spending . |
| 3 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 4 | But he lacks the minimal ontological ballast to call himself bored . |
| 5 | But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive . |
| 6 | But he rejects the popular belief that information about the city 's blitz was suppressed to avoid damaging civilian morale . |
| 7 | Whether Hastings is invited to take on the role of Scottish captain is for the future , but he acknowledges the good fortune he has enjoyed in playing under such inspiring leadership : ‘ You only need to look at the names of players who have captained Scotland to be aware of the tremendous honour it represents . |
| 8 | Moscato , the son of an immigrant from Calabria , was born in Paris in July 1967 , but he retains the hard-bitten philosophy of his peasant forebears ; ‘ Men and boys are aggressive ’ , says Moscato . |
| 9 | ‘ But he likes the long school holidays ! ’ said Tony . |
| 10 | But he gets the best : the person who provides the real thing ( a contribution to profitability ) , the person who 's been at the sharp end and actually cut a profit from the edge . |
| 11 | There 's nothing wrong with them as such but he says the real satisfaction is n't to be found in them , it 's within you . |
| 12 | But he says the two are not linked . |
| 13 | A single Goblin can continue to use the huge prodder to keep back the Squigs and fight , but he loses the +1 strength bonus as the prodder is exceptionally unwieldy . |
| 14 | Reuters ' managing director of Instinet UK , Bryan Cavill , agrees that bigger and more creative deals need the human touch , but he believes the lower cost , speed and transparency of automated trading will in time capture a good chunk of the market . |
| 15 | He has a long way to go but he has the right attitude . ’ |
| 16 | He is for me the epitome of the Italian style at its best — he is Spanish , of course , but he has the true Italian style . |
| 17 | Today 's match did n't reflect his past glories , he scored just 12 , but he has the whole season to make up for it . |
| 18 | Yee … e … es , Melvin 's annoyingly adenoidal but he has the Common Touch . |
| 19 | He may not look the fittest man on the field , but he has the biggest heart . |
| 20 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |
| 21 | For him , education comes first , but he welcomes the new atmosphere of access to information about schools which means that Glenlola 's achievements are public knowledge . |
| 22 | The latter he rejects because it is clear the Irish are too barbarous even to be Spanish , but he supports the former account of origins . |
| 23 | Not only does Nithard say in which vernacular languages the two kings addressed their men ( though he records the addresses in Latin ) , but he gives the ensuing oaths in vernacular texts that are among the earliest examples of Old High German and Old French . |
| 24 | But he cautions the prosperous townie newcomer that money and ambition will count for nothing : ‘ You must wait patiently for acceptance into the village , and learn to share the atavistic values of the region . ’ |
| 25 | But he starts the Premier League campaign in better shape than three of his star internationals — Rob Jones , Jan Molby and John Barnes — who are all out crocked . |
| 26 | But he treats the former , unpejoratively , as an aspect of grammatical neutrality and obviousness designed to permit communication to a mass audience , and to represent the everyday context ; and the latter not as ‘ false ’ but as ‘ interruptions ’ of the grammar , relatively autonomous ‘ metaphors ’ , intuitively selected but acting ‘ like tiny reservoirs briefly holding the social significations of the moment ’ . |