Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Bott 's aim was not to test well-defined hypotheses , but to carry out an intensive exploratory study of a small number of families , with the idea of furthering psychological and sociological understanding of urban family life . |
| 2 | The top two money-winners in the United States this season converted their two-shot overnight lead over Spain into a three-stroke halfway advantage but admitted afterwards the six-hour crawl had taken its toll . |
| 3 | Belinda risked a cautious glance at him , but met only an unreadable profile . |
| 4 | It does not provide an important venue for researchers to announce new results , but offers instead a brief taste of science to the locals in more than 300 events covering everything from fitness testing to X-ray astronomy . |
| 5 | Giving a place a special label , and , in some cases , fencing it off , may raise people 's awareness , but offers only a flimsy barrier against developers . |
| 6 | Sorrel could n't run to the back of an envelope , but found instead a spare section of Filofax pages , just about the most expensive scribble pad you could get short of using ten-pound notes . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes , desperately trying to find the anger which had protected her from him so far , but found only an overwhelming longing to simply lose herself in his arms . |
| 8 | A chapter on famous people , I was amused to see , devoted only a paragraph each to renowned saints , scholars and patriots , but devoted nearly a whole page to Collier the Robber ( 1780 — 1849 ) , a noted highwayman . |
| 9 | Please do not send the artefacts or coins , but provide either a good quality drawings or photographs of front and reverse , and include details of dimensions , material of manufacture and any other helpful information . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 11 | Currently some 28,000 co-operative farms and 2,600,000 ejidatarios accounted for half of all arable land but contributed only a small percentage of gross national income , and much of the country 's food was imported . |
| 12 | The country was a leader in the expansion of Europe , but holds only an average position in the European Community area as it becomes a more unified , single competitive market from 1992 . |
| 13 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 14 | This is because it does not develop ordinary vertebrae , but contains instead a central rod of cartilage . |
| 15 | He called the longer pieces Harmony Music , but used also the alternative affectionate generic term ‘ Shed Music ’ , referring to the place where the group rehearsed . |
| 16 | Do not use butter , creams or lotions , but put on a clean dressing instead . |
| 17 | We moan a great deal about bad for contemporary music , but put on a big new Stockhausen piece in London and the likelihood is that you will fill that hall , provided you prepare it . |
| 18 | Teddington had to give up Laslett and Barker to England but put up a spirited performance against the national side . |
| 19 | But put aside the question-begging character of the premiss , and turn instead to the conclusion . |
| 20 | Mackenzie was whisked to the track hospital but suffered only a cut arm . |
| 21 | A vicar was guaranteed the vicarage but received only a certain portion of the ecclesiastical income . |
| 22 | He outraged respectable Victorian society by his public championing of the poor and his denunciations of the uncaring rich ; in addition , he not only espoused the cause of the theatre and ballet as harmless and enjoyable pastimes , but rejected entirely the received opinion that these entertainments constituted the inescapable gateway to the everlasting bonfire . |
| 23 | He was almost certain that he had found him , that he could say , ‘ Our McCloy was here , ’ and yet what had he achieved but dredge up a tiny segment of McCloy 's life ? |
| 24 | But equally there is the option of differentiation , which is about setting oneself apart from the norm , not simply to criticize and condemn it but to set up an alternative and different model . |
| 25 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 26 | Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East . |
| 27 | A strike of social workers is not only much more limited in its impact , but affects mostly the poor and underprivileged section of the community whose political muscle is very weak and limited anyway , even though the effect of such a strike on particular individuals or families may be very grave indeed . |
| 28 | A central feature of this book is to show how global capitalism produces the material conditions for socialism , but closes down the political and cultural-ideological space for it . |
| 29 | But consider how the following additional constraints would make your task so much more difficult ( and relate these constraints to the problems of being unable to study the SCN directly , of being unsure of exactly how it then sends its information to produce the rhythms in , say , temperature or urine flow — things that we can measure — and even of not being certain that the SCN is the only area in the brain that is part of the body clock ) . |
| 30 | But consider now a different theory which takes its clue not from Leibniz but from Kant , while at the same time trying to eliminate the main causes of the difficulties and problems that bedevil Kant 's own approach . |