Example sentences of "but they [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | think that the effects of training should be the main focus of research on gender differences in spatial abilities , but they connect this programme to ‘ a sincere wish to see what cognitive sex differences might remain if the sexes were treated without discrimination ’ ( 1986 : 1017–18 ) . |
| 2 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 3 | Entomopathogenic fungi — those causing disease in insects — have also been used in pest biocontrol , but they require high humidity . |
| 4 | Such details are hardly at the heart of ‘ introducing major operational change ’ , which the Government 's Teaching Company Scheme ( TCS ) proposes , but they form intriguing by-products . |
| 5 | Such details are hardly at the heart of ‘ introducing major operational change ’ , which the Government 's Teaching Company Scheme ( TCS ) proposes , but they form intriguing by-products . |
| 6 | The dispersion of adult reproductive males resembles that of females when food is poor , but they form large groups utilizing ranges in common at other times . |
| 7 | Oxfordshire Health Authority say they regret Keith Atkinson 's disabilities , but they deny any negligence by staff in 1967 . |
| 8 | But they prefer wet places where they can hunt for frogs , fish , molluscs , crustaceans and worms . |
| 9 | The recordings comprised uninterrupted performances of opera overtures , but they cost ten shillings and sixpence each , and needed an outsize turntable . |
| 10 | But they know these people because you co-opted on , so I was on standing conference of womens ' organisations . |
| 11 | But they admit individual agents only on the terms on which a natural scientist admits individual and particular objects . |
| 12 | Nor are there any madrigalian extravagances in Hassler 's madrigals ; they make good use of antiphony between higher and lower voice-groups as in the openings of ‘ Ach Schatz , ich thu dir klagen ’ and ‘ Fahr hin , guts Liedelein ’ ; but they lack rhythmic spring . |
| 13 | There are no formal ties between the national clearinghouses but they maintain regular contact , and exchange information , newsletters and materials . |
| 14 | They did n't win in 1970 , but they put that right with a vengeance in 1971 . |
| 15 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 16 | But they keep Soviet might in mind , however remote the threat now seems . |
| 17 | But they overlook two problems . |
| 18 | But they remain firm friends , and David has nothing but praise for the way his former girlfriend has handled stardom . |
| 19 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 20 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 21 | Not only are their resources in demand , but they make powerful appeals to instinct and emotion . |
| 22 | They do not ‘ solve ’ intractable problems , but they make other organizations carry the can for policy failures , a factor which commonly underlies systems which accord wide discretion to local governments . |
| 23 | Like the silkmoth , ants sense pheromones through their antennae ; but they make continual use of both antennae to keep them in the right direction . |
| 24 | Farther north Dargaville has a pleasant little club , mainly a weekend operation , but they make visiting pilots welcome . |
| 25 | United 's record is n't a lot to sing about , but they deserve some cheers for the way they keep plugging away and its not always they 're fault . |
| 26 | Our study was not designed to address these possibilities , but they deserve further investigation . |
| 27 | If you mount up your Warlord or Shamans on big monsters you will substantially increase their fighting potential but they become easy targets for the enemy . |
| 28 | D. Farms are smaller than those of East Anglia but they use more labour . |
| 29 | The CURDS regions are again based on population and employment size and commuting patterns , but they use different thresholds and , unlike MELAs , they exhaust the UK space . |
| 30 | The AP1-88 's air-cooled truck diesels that provide both lift and propulsion are heavier than the converted aero engine that powers the SR.N6 , but they burn less fuel and cost only one-fifth as much . |