Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 2 | Dr Arthur Upton , formerly director of the NCI and now with New York University Medical Center , was gentler , but agreed with many others that the distinction between genotoxic and epigenetic is useless for judging risk to humans . |
| 3 | So review is not an appeal on the merits of a decision but limited to those grounds . |
| 4 | This enquiry is similar to the one above , but refers to those facilities that are jointly used by neighbours over a third person 's property . |
| 5 | I believe if a player is down as a defender but plays in another position . |
| 6 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 7 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 8 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 9 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 10 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 11 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | This species looks superficially like Amphioplus verrilli but differs from that species by the following characters : the tentacle pores usually have a rounded tentacle scale whereas verrilli has no tentacle scales and the ventral arm plates are flat not ridge as in verrilli . |
| 13 | These headings need a minimum fullness of twice the track length and calculations should be treated in the same way as for pinch pleat heading , but allowing for more pleats ( ‘ tubes ’ ) of a smaller size and closer spacing . |
| 14 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 15 | THE assumption that information is stored in the brain as changes in synaptic efficiency emerged about a century ago following the demonstration by Cajal that networks of neurons are not in cytoplasmic continuity but communicate with each other at the specialized junctions which Sherrington called synapses . |
| 16 | ‘ Children in heaven do not advance beyond early manhood , but remain in that state of eternity ’ |
| 17 | But caught in that web were jots of evidence that Angie quite simply lived with every day . |
| 18 | There he sat in his writer 's hotel room , venturing out into a series of tight corners , filing his copy , then leaving for Warsaw to compose his short books — objects physically slight but charged with these confusions . |
| 19 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 20 | Such an ideal does not stand isolated from the practices which strive towards it but interacts with those practices , helps to construct them , and is in turn constructed by them . |
| 21 | She seemed to have lost a shoe , and her dress was not only dirty but torn in several places . |
| 22 | They disagree with the Marxist view that women 's oppression stems ultimately from capitalism , but disagree with each other in what they see as the basis of women 's oppression . |
| 23 | Observations show that events are not isolated but interact with each other , often producing a complex situation . |
| 24 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 25 | It was almost certainly held together with dowels but has in any case been rebuilt twice , in 1867 and 1904 , with the use of ample numbers of bolts . |
| 26 | Fingerspelling does not , therefore , stand alone as a system but has in most cases become part of sign language for adult deaf People . |
| 27 | She had had Moorlake House and was in the red an " the Moorlake Secretarial School did n't have enough pupils , but driving along this morning , she felt curiously content . |
| 28 | We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far . |
| 29 | But according to these figures there 's been some jiggery-pokery with the room rates . |
| 30 | Estimates of the numbers of political prisoners in Syria varied , but according to some sources about 3,500 still remained in prison . |