Example sentences of "but [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 2 | First is a simple reductionist view , which would neglect the way in which culture not only shapes but constitutes the vast mass of human behaviour . |
| 3 | The first way is best but involves the extra expense of a gearbox . |
| 4 | Integration is viewed in physical terms ; policy increasingly concentrates on people but neglects the true characteristics of people in favour of resources-led practice . |
| 5 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 6 | Milk and single cream contain too little fat to be whipped ; whipping cream contains just enough ( c. 30% ) but needs the vigorous beating of a power whisk ; double cream contains a lot of fat ( c. 40% ) and is easily whipped by hand . |
| 7 | Reportedly there are continuing internal struggles between Sun 's hardware unit — which wants the new NFS as soon as possible for its next generation multi-processing servers — and SunSoft , which has already promised multi-threading for NFS , but wants the new features to be part of Solaris 2.1 or higher , and 2.1 is n't expected until mid-1993 . |
| 8 | This technique is not as useful as the torsional pendulum but covers the higher frequency range 10 to 103 Hz . |
| 9 | When trying to relate the global structure of this solution to part of the Schwarzschild space-time , it should be emphasised that for this class of colliding plane waves the coordinate is not periodic but covers the full range . |
| 10 | So far we have looked at changing shares within total public spending , but has the absolute level of public spending grown as fast as critics suggest ? |
| 11 | Between the main road and the sea are the small , cliff side resorts , first of Bid art , which has a delightful town square , very Basque , with church , pelota wall and hotels gathered affably together , and excellent beaches to walk down to ; and then of Guéthary , which is smaller , lower down and less of a village than Bidart , but has the better coastline . |
| 12 | Certainly the deliberate naïveté here is not in the least false , but has the limpid directness of some of the Chinese poems that Pound had marvellously transfigured in Cathay ( 1915 ) . |
| 13 | They use a colourless paste which has no effect on the skin but has the peculiar property of altering the molecular structure of a metal and making it malleable . |
| 14 | But has the anti-roll bar sapped roadholding ? |
| 15 | The Bovril Babe does not deny sexuality , but challenges the relentless parade of tits and arse , which has dominated maintstream fashion in recent years . |
| 16 | X and Unix , but blends the two environments into a single user-friendly operating system . |
| 17 | PERFECT PORRIDGE This easy recipe is rather like a hot version of muesli but uses the best kind of oats , has wheatgerm as a bonus and indulgent toppings . |
| 18 | CALMS offers similar facilities but uses the public telephone network instead of the mains for communication . |
| 19 | An intersection does not indicate that a clash occurs but establishes the only region of uncertainty in which all possible clashes could occur . |
| 20 | Notice that since a larger tree benefits one party but hurts the other party , the efficient tree size and efficient quantity of the externality will not be zero . |
| 21 | The city council will be debating the result in April , but says the limited response has reduced pressure to ban cars immediately . |
| 22 | The second aspect of the school meals changes are with that alternative meal saving and would best be introduced erm if members were to decide that this is the way we wanted to go from April ninety five rather than in Sept September ninety four as suggested and attached to the report and that delays the savings , but achieves the same saving but not until nineteen ninety six seven and you will see that the figures have been amended and to take that into account and that 's on line fifty four B appendix ten . |
| 23 | The Twin-T network of Fig. 2 gives zero output at the frequency where the reactance of C is equal to the resistance R , but attenuates the lower harmonics to some extent . |
| 24 | Santa Cruz Open Server Network System comes with the same basic system and networking components , but loses the graphical interface and Microsoft emulation technologies . |
| 25 | SCO Open Server Network System comes with the same basic system and networking components , but loses the graphical interface and Microsoft emulation technologies . |
| 26 | Marketing director Jim Bradford says JWT is still included in the review , but confirms the other agencies involved have now been dropped . |
| 27 | Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term . |
| 28 | Front Runners the best of Brough Scott 's writings in the Sunday Times and Independent on Sunday , is not a rugby book but includes the odd rugby piece . |
| 29 | The evidence for grain-milling in small towns is limited but includes the third century building with two millstones in the Kate 's Cabin suburb at Water Newton , the three millstones in the yard of building 16 at Springheads and the very large millstone at Wanborough , which implies the use of water or other mechanical power . |
| 30 | The BBC coverage excludes the truncheon blow , but includes the flying kick : |