Example sentences of "but [verb] [not/n't] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do not forget that brassière is the French for life-jacket . |
| 2 | This will apply where at least two of the firms earn £170million or more of that turnover in the EC but do not earn more than two-thirds of their total turnover in a single EC country . |
| 3 | But do not expect much new philosophy from the present government . |
| 4 | But do not expect American protectionists to give up : next year , as domestic demand revives , the deficit will surely widen again . |
| 5 | The great danger of the last days of the campaign is that those voters who wish to punish the Tories , but do not want Labour , may not understand the situation . |
| 6 | Her Memoirs ( 1810 ) mention the writing of fiction obliquely ( ‘ was I soaring into the airy regions of fiction , I would quickly change the theme ’ ) , but do not mention any of the novels ascribed to her . |
| 7 | Working-class and middle-class women are satisfied and dissatisfied with housework in equal numbers : different patterns of response to a particular interview question are interesting , but do not affect this basic conclusion . |
| 8 | Make the ‘ low flags ’ area a nonstopping zone that is , retain the bus stops on the High Row side but do not allow any stopping at all on the lower side , say , from Woolworths to the Tubwell Row corner . |
| 9 | The wines from this village are modestly good but do not merit top premier cru status — despite the elevation of the échelle of this village in 1985 from 93% to 95% . |
| 10 | Some samplers possess a simple low-pass filter rolling off at about 16kHz , but do not remove enough of the signal above 20kHz to allow a sample rate of 40kHz . |
| 11 | They eat bloodworms , but do not touch chopped earthworms . |
| 12 | Several swags can be positioned across a large window , but do not attempt this until you are more experienced . |
| 13 | Common sense also suggests that there are many people who drink before attending sporting contests but do not become involved in fighting . |
| 14 | Most worrying are smaller companies which borrowed heavily but do not have big banks behind them . |
| 15 | Assistance from the community nursing service , social workers and day or respite facilities can relieve some of the pressure on carers but do not provide any long term solution to the attendant social and emotional deprivation of people living restricted and sometimes insular existences . |
| 16 | I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of . |
| 17 | The high specificity of serotonin reuptake inhibitors , without antagonism of neurotransmitter receptors or direct cardiac effects , has led to the expectation that they have the same antidepressant activity as tricyclic and related antidepressants but do not produce many of the common side effects . |
| 18 | Shakes hands firmly but do not get involved in a ‘ trial of strength ’ handshake . |
| 19 | Secondly , you will best get there by squeezing all you can out of every position you hold and out of the experience of every man you serve or meet : pick their brains , study their successes and their failures ; never be afraid to ask questions or put new ideas , but do not get upset or angry if they are not accepted at first , and do not assume that the other man 's judgment is wrong . |
| 20 | The examples of partial shifts provided by the Department of Health look reasonable on paper but do not take annual or study leave into account . |
| 21 | The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 33 ) , the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 191 ) and the Family Law Act 1986 all provide the opportunity for steps to be taken to return abducted children anywhere within the world , including between England and Scotland and England and Northern Ireland , but do not permit such a state of affairs to occur within England and Wales . |
| 22 | Such schemes are essentially analytical in nature , but do not permit any synthesis or joining together of concepts that have been divided from one another . |
| 23 | We believe the advice given is accurate and pertinent , but do not accept legal responsibility for it |
| 24 | Thus all three of these techniques : programme budgeting , specialty costing and patient costing , are of some value but do not overcome all the limitations of departmental budgets . |
| 25 | Draw up a list of 20 things you have never done that are silly but do n't cost much money and work your way down the list by doing one each day ( eg leave your car in the garage and hitch a lift , turn the daily newspaper into papier mâché , go to the shops wearing a funny hat , shake hands with the next 10 people you meet ) . |
| 26 | Fig. 5 also shows how the board is fitted to the panel — but do n't do this just yet . |
| 27 | ‘ The easiest way to catch them is with a three-pronged spear , but do n't tell that to fishermen . ’ |
| 28 | But do n't anticipate any hardware announcements this week . |
| 29 | lean to peak EGT ( but do n't exceed 1,650 ° ) ; this is the reference temperature — set red marker to it |
| 30 | But do n't retain unnecessary papers such as old local searches — the only one worth having is your own recent search . |