Example sentences of "but [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he wins or not , I shall remember him for his fearlessness , for not being content to run like a solitary god between the gunpowder hills of Lanzarote , but for running in the race instead . |
| 2 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 3 | And this we come at not through consulting Joyce 's biography , but through attending to the forces at work in his writing . |
| 4 | I apologize for using the semimetaphorical terms ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ in this essay , but after puzzling over the matter for some time I can see no other way of setting about it . |
| 5 | I could make smaller movies , but after running in the Olympics why should I go back to High School ? |
| 6 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea . |
| 8 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 9 | 3 The act not only created a situation in which the House of Lords had to give way to the House of Commons , but in providing for the " representation of the people " it admitted a new principle of linkage between the state and society . |
| 10 | Victory and profit , together with the king 's affable personality and chivalric reputation , ensured that this co-operation , once offered , would not lightly be withdrawn ; but in dealing with the nobility Edward showed a degree of political skill and a sensitivity to their interests which went beyond simply sharing in a glorious and profitable enterprise abroad . |
| 11 | He had waylaid Mr Dwerringhouse and hit him on the head to stun him , but in falling to the ground , the older man had hit his head on a large stone and sustained a fatal blow . |
| 12 | But in agreeing with the philosophers that all we know are ideas , he runs the risk of rejecting altogether any real world . |
| 13 | But in returning to the question of research projects in academic libraries , it is useful to consider generally and very briefly the nature of the various projects . |
| 14 | But before looking at the idea behind this revolution in printing , consider its consequences . |
| 15 | But before looking at the two most important examples of planning for peace , the Beveridge Report and the Butler Education Act of 1944 , it is important to note a number of ways in which peacetime policy changes were foreshadowed by ad hoc wartime measures . |
| 16 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 17 | But before turning to the central question of what ideals men and women should adopt , it is worth speculating a little about what it is that causes these observable differences of moral outlook . |
| 18 | A little idiosyncratic , I think , my appearance — but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles . |
| 19 | This does not mean that the intellectual therefore nihilistically celebrates dispersion , fragmentation or relativity : rather she or he is the person who , facing such dispersion but without conceding to the nostalgic desire for totalization , poses the questions and constitutes the series and continuities for analysis — and thus for transformation — while attempting to respect its heterogeneity . |
| 20 | But on hearing of the find , the Archbishop immediately put forward the case that the original contract of sale of the Palace had not included furnishings , so the tapestries were the property of the Church . |
| 21 | But on hearing of the situation in Llandudno they decided to assess the situation for themselves . |
| 22 | The viscosity increases rapidly to a value of about as T g is approached , but on passing from the melt to the glass a region of rubbery flow and elasticity is traversed . |
| 23 | Every other Government in the European Community know that , for months past , the British Government 's negotiating energies have been directed not at shaping the future of the Community but at papering over the cracks in the Tory party . |
| 24 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 25 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 26 | But by looking at the clues of the building we can see that it was there . |
| 27 | But by stepping into the role the daughter ensures homeostasis within the family . |
| 28 | But by hiding in the term ‘ inner city ’ the novel appears as perennial , the strange appears to be familiar . |
| 29 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 30 | The tsar was personally reassured by the kaiser but by adding to the shadowy Dreikaiserbund a special relationship with Austria-Hungary , Bismarck had begun the slow elaboration of alliances which were to divide Europe more and more down to 1914 . |