Example sentences of "but [verb] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But given that the RSPB has set itself the task of changing European farming policy to save the Barn Owl , it 's going to be a monumental task . |
| 2 | The uranium series measurements give a slightly older date of 205,000 years BP , but given that the uncertainties in each of these figures are typically 20 per cent , the two techniques can be said to agree with each other . |
| 3 | However , being known for measurement does not necessarily help when tendering for consultancy work , but given that the reputation of most of our rivals was built on the interpretive reports prepared by companies such as ours , the transition should simply be one of perception . |
| 4 | Admittedly , this decline is not ‘ comparable to ’ that in the Mirror , but given that The Times was ‘ a newspaper of record ’ whilst the Mirror was a popular newspaper , one can argue that the decline in The Times ’ coverage was more serious . |
| 5 | But given that the authors themselves say that 20 per cent of those over 80 suffer from senile dementia ( p. 297 ) an important group of clients and their carers seem to have been dis-enfranchised . |
| 6 | ‘ What a funny old election this is , at which the political parties argue about taxation and legislation but declare all the time that they intend the electors of this country to have no further control over the very questions that are being put to them . ’ |
| 7 | Tell him anything you like , but make sure the apartment 's clean . ’ |
| 8 | But make sure the sheeting is easily detachable so that it does not prevent you getting through the window in case of fire . |
| 9 | If we 've got to close homes , let's close them but make sure the homes that 's left are warm welcoming and give these people the dignity and the independence to which they are entitled to which they 've earned and which they thoroughly deserve . |
| 10 | Confirmed is better , but make sure the bank doing the confirming is a reputable one . |
| 11 | This is a good month for sowing seeds lawns , but make sure the ground is fully prepared first . |
| 12 | Do what you want , boys , but make sure the television cameras get great pictures . |
| 13 | But make sure the SIMM sockets on the motherboard are easily accessible . |
| 14 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 15 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 16 | Here , however , the clause does not just apply to one disposition , but confirms all the dispositions in the will . |
| 17 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
| 18 | But to do this the bank really does need to be very steep and , being a slightly hit-or-miss approach , is one more suitable to match-play than stroke-play . |
| 19 | A group of several chariots is certainly powerful but suffers all the disadvantages of large monsters . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's got a teacher bossing him around who 's about four years older than he is , if that , and a lot less self-confident , but holding all the aces . |
| 21 | Issues of training are raised by the authors of the three overview works in this series but permeate all the volumes concerned with specific areas of the curriculum or specific areas of special needs . |
| 22 | If we had won all the Tests but lost all the one-dayers , then it would have been considered to be a successful trip . ’ |
| 23 | The final design , a roller step 400mm high , lets sows out of the nursery but kept all the piglets safely inside until they were around three weeks old . |
| 24 | In this , the driver continued to drive , but shared the costs ; he received no wage but took half the proceeds . |
| 25 | Lothar 's biographer in the Gesta makes the point that following Celestine 's death he did not immediately join the cardinals assembled in the Septizonium , but attended first the exequies , or funeral rites , for the dead pope , which were taking place in the Lateran basilica . |
| 26 | I am afraid I did not pause to read my mother 's letter , but tore open the enclosure with spastic fingers . |
| 27 | They tend to work at entirely separate sections of the music , ignoring each other , but talking all the while . |
| 28 | ‘ At Southampton , he did n't score that many but did all the work for others — now he does the work and scores heavily . |
| 29 | But to change all the s's in a book into G's would cause chaos . |
| 30 | In 1743 , in consultation with the governor , he decided that an attempt should be made not to fortify the watersheds of all rivers leading to the Arctic — a mammoth task indeed — but to defend all the lands necessary and useful for the Province of Siberia , provided that care was taken not to include territories so important to the natives that a pretext would be given for an uprising . |