Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] this [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 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But wandering around this town , however delightful , held little charm for her without his company . |
| 5 | Who could choose but look on this picture , and on that , and acknowledge and be shocked by the inevitable comparison ? |
| 6 | No other injuries — but look at this hand ! ’ |
| 7 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 8 | Section A is fairly similar to the intro , but going through this section for the second time do n't forget to use the alternative fill in bar 5 . |
| 9 | Malpas , the captain , normally deals with such intrusions efficiently , but blundered on this occasion with a slack header towards his goalkeeper which Wright intercepted and guided beyond the advancing Main . |
| 10 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
| 11 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 12 | The mean velocity , for example , is the same at all points at the same distance from the axis , but varies with this distance . |
| 13 | But to live through this symphony , to feel what compelled Shostakovich to compose it , you have to have Kondrashin — warts and all . |
| 14 | Money as abstraction furnishes opportunities for possession , but mediates in this relationship to give rise to some separation between the specificity of being and the specificity of having , since money alone does not determine its further use by its presence , and is entirely ahistorical . |
| 15 | Detailed instructions for the use of the IPF Problem Control Facility are not included in this section but notes on this facility are contained in Section 6 . |
| 16 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 17 | The emergence of the modernist novel of consciousness is often described in terms of a shift of emphasis from ‘ telling ’ to ‘ showing ’ — but showing in this context is a metaphor . |
| 18 | But relying on this instrument is crude , lacks imagination , and does not achieve other goals desirable in the control and regulation of corporate crime ( Stone 1975 ) . |
| 19 | But minutes after this sample is taken electronically , the logger is plugged into a computer which immediately displays graphic images of the chemical cocktail underground . |
| 20 | Erm printed in the official copy for this but left off this copy were the names , also the Reverend of Glangothwyn and the Reverend Victor of Hamwell Erm does anybody else wish to make any comments on the minutes of . |
| 21 | There are many motives for passing on wealth ( we refer to bequests but include under this gifts inter vivos ) . |
| 22 | There were losses of £1.08m from brickmaking in the United States and £1.34m from wood pulp , but brickmaking in this country made £9.79m at the still respectable margin of 15 p.c . |
| 23 | Labetalol is theoretically better , but experience with this drug in this condition is limited . |
| 24 | But working in this sort of hospital you are always aware of the potential and you have to be alert . |
| 25 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |