Example sentences of "but [verb] out [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 4 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |
| 5 | She opened her mouth , but spat out the sweet and sour liquid which splashed on to her tongue . |
| 6 | Primary earnings under F R S Three including everything down twenty one percent , but taking out the non-operating items , that 's the erm fixed assets , er profit sales on the one hand and the old extraordinaries on the other , and you have I think a more meaningful guide to our performance a reduction in any nine percent . |
| 7 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 8 | Mr Bensley felt it was too early to link the incidents — but pointed out the disturbing pattern of attempts by youths in stolen cars to lure police patrol cars into ambushes . |