Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 2 | The book , however , displays considerable skill in the plan on great power , but rather shown in the writing than the matter , and this vigour sustains a species of interest to the last . |
| 3 | Surely most people join the National Trust not to further some obscure and cranky cause ( special societies already exist for these causes ) but rather to help in the enjoyment of places of beauty in this country . |
| 4 | But somewhere hiding in the core of you , is there not a little worm of insecurity ? |
| 5 | A lowering of HDL-cholesterol , with elevation of serum cholesterol and triglyceride , has been well documented in non-diabetics ( Goldman et al , 1980 ) , but little studied in the diabetic . |
| 6 | A fascinating insight is provided into those two cultures by the fact that Western writers disapproved in the case of China , but greatly approved in the case of Japan . |
| 7 | Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough , but suddenly appears in the limelight . |
| 8 | It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches . |
| 9 | Many of the poems naturally have feminist themes — complaints about lack of formal education , domestic duties and brutish husbands : ‘ Wife and servant are the same / But only differ in the name ’ . |
| 10 | And when she brought it to him , he did not take it from her , but only felt in the deep pocket stitched into its lining , and drew out a parchment rolled and sealed , which he reached across the table and laid before Iago Vaughan . |
| 11 | His journey is one of growth in patient awareness that the truth of the Gospel can not be enforced by social legislation but only fostered in the consciousness of individuals from whose hearts alone the reality of social salvation can spring . |
| 12 | Fourthly , as the example of the ‘ Church Struggle ’ showed , Hitler was widely viewed — even by prominent Church leaders with a reputation for hostility to Nazism — as personally sincere , and in matters affecting established traditions and institutions as a ‘ moderate ’ opposed to the radical and extreme elements in the Nazi Movement , but largely kept in the dark about what was actually going on . |
| 13 | I get hassled when they disagree with what I 'm saying but not hassled in the sense of ‘ you 're an awful fellow ’ . |
| 14 | Sadly , the notes referred to money and medicines that had been sent by the family but not received in the prison . |
| 15 | Mr X may be resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom but not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Part XV is built upon the basic UK taxing principles which require that overseas income is taxable on a remittance basis if the settlor is resident in the United Kingdom but not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | The trustees pay that £100,000 to Mr X who is resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom but not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | One of the anomalies in the remittance basis is the fact that a person who is resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom but not domiciled in the United Kingdom may use his overseas source income to discharge the interest on an overseas loan which is used , say , to purchase a house in the United Kingdom in which he lives without there being a remittance of that overseas income to the UK . |
| 19 | He told Beattie to climb as high as he could and watch what happened , but not to join in the fighting . |
| 20 | There have been one or two irksome omissions — Elektra , Die Frau ohne Schatten , productions that were highlights of the Strauss centenary celebrations in Salzburg and Vienna in 1964 — as well as one or two works that Karajan has recorded but not conducted in the theatre since Ulm or Aachen . |
| 21 | Encouraged by the success of the publication , CD collected together other pieces previously published in periodicals but not included in the First Series and Sketches by Boz Second Series was published in one volume by Macrone in 1837 ( but bearing the date 1836 ) , uniform with the previous 2 volumes , and including 10 illustrations ( 12 in the second edition ) by Cruikshank . |
| 22 | In spring 1990 , there were 870,000 people in the United Kingdom unemployed on the internationally recognised International Labour Organisation definition , but not included in the monthly claimant count statistics . |
| 23 | Thus , we have also included a third group , the mixed grade MALT lymphoma already discussed but not included in the initial classification of Isaacson et al . |
| 24 | Items appearing on the bank statement but not entered in the cash book such as bank charges , standing orders , interest charged on overdrafts or bank giro credits . |
| 25 | There may be details about the patient 's condition which the doctor wishes to record , but not discuss in the presence of the patient . |
| 26 | Wotherspoon is the first to admit that he an ideas man , practical but not practised in the arts of marketing . |
| 27 | The government 's economic policy , including severe cutbacks in the welfare state and extensive deregulation [ see below ] , exacerbated existing divisions within the National Party which had been concealed but not resolved in the run-up to the election . |
| 28 | Marseille 's dour defence — inspired by the belligerent Basile Boli — had been so assured , but finally succumbed in the face of the first really intelligent attack they had been forced to face . |
| 29 | Earlier , he had visited the museum of San Martino , not to see any of the exhibits but just to take in the view , the huge curve of the Bay . |
| 30 | The nearest we get is Helen Thomas 's introduction to the 1932 edition of The South Country about the life he had chosen , oft en suffering ‘ despair and humiliation ’ , but always finding in the country ‘ the comfort he so passionately sought ’ . |