Example sentences of "but [prep] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effectiveness , by contrast , is not about relative performance but about achieving pre-set targets or objectives . |
| 2 | Truly integrated arts are not simply about providing suitable facilities , but about involving Disabled people as equals at all levels of decision-making and practice , and recognising the experience of Disability throughout the arts structure . |
| 3 | Partnerships should challenge the trend ; partnerships should not be about alternative sources of funding for the public education service but about ensuring proper levels of public funding with additional support from the private sector . |
| 4 | John had decided to dig a depth of nine feet , but after removing four feet of earth , the men hit a hard band of shale and a Kango breaker was hired to remove the remaining debris . |
| 5 | But after making this admission we must go deeper into the question . |
| 6 | To save time when judgment is given , the practice has been adopted of stating the disposition of the case in open court , but of providing printed copies of the full judgments to the parties ' lawyers and to the representatives of the press in court . |
| 7 | It was he that realised that if solutions to deteriorating road safety were to be sought in terms of the physical environment for traffic , it was not simply a matter of improving roads , but of redesigning whole road systems : |
| 8 | c Models In social work day centres there is generally a policy of excluding behaviourally disturbed or severely disabled dementia sufferers , but of attempting complete integration of attenders . |
| 9 | The answer lay not in trying to play down the search for glory in war , but in channelling these energies towards the service of the king who represented the public good and honour of a nation or people . |
| 10 | But in considering any possibility if development , would you agree Mrs that one must have regard to the suitability of one site versus another site in relation to damage which might be caused ? |
| 11 | Outside the area of formal government , with some notable exceptions among voluntary organizations and trade unions , in which principles of election and accountability do operate , there is almost everything to do , not only in creating democracy , but in establishing that democracy is the principle that ought to operate . |
| 12 | was keen to establish links with HCIMA not only for accreditation but in identifying joint ventures between the two associations . |
| 13 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 14 | As we have seen , the inheritance of wealth and educational advantage make this ideology of ‘ free competition for unequal reward ’ a very dubious claim , but in studying social mobility we are still comparing the actual amount of social mobility with the ideal of totally free movement through totally equal opportunity . |
| 15 | As examples Mr Denton described the Tyne Metro in favourable terms , and the Docklands Light Railway , but in planning this system some mistakes have been made . |
| 16 | But in following embryonic cell lineages of blood or neural crest the early cells are bewilderingly similar ; there are no obvious features which can be used to distinguish , say , early red blood cells from white cells . |
| 17 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 18 | It is for these reasons that his approach seems the more fruitful of the two in understanding the situation in advanced capitalist societies during the last twenty or thirty years , when Adorno 's conception of artistic totality , mirror image of an increasingly global , oppressive industrial totality , presents a theoretical cul-de-sac ; when , by contrast , we are actually bombarded by an increasingly heterogeneous mix of musical methods and messages , often seemingly cut free from traditions and sources , shifted around at random ; when listeners do seem to some extent to have learned , gradually , new perceptual skills , through several decades of habituation , enabling more active comparison of styles , a greater variety of uses and a more ‘ ironic ’ relationship to the stream of musical products ; and when the main opportunities for critique and subversion lie not in head-on ‘ romantic ’ protest but in exploiting temporary spaces , in the cracks and at the margins , within the monolith itself . |
| 19 | But in rejecting that assumption we render the argument from analogy redundant . |
| 20 | But before leaving this matter of persistence I want to mention a few special cases of persistence on a finer scale . |
| 21 | Pluralism we discuss separately in Chapter 5 , but before concluding this chapter we must briefly refer to the subsequent history of elitism . |
| 22 | But before accepting these equations it is important to ask both whether they are well-founded , and whether they are a means to a better understanding of the relatively specific problem of holism . |
| 23 | From Laxford Bridge , the road heading west , The A.894 , leads to Scourie but before reaching this village , a narrow side road off for Tarbet , a tiny coastal community with a small harbour , normally sleepy and deserted . |
| 24 | But before investigating these opportunities and constraints it is necessary to outline what one takes ‘ socialist objectives ’ to be , in broad terms . |
| 25 | But before describing these categories it is valuable to consider the meaning of style . |
| 26 | Thirdly , some elders may demonstrate little verbal consciousness , but from using functional assessment instruments it seems likely that they are capable of sustaining a largely independent life at the level of practical consciousness . |
| 27 | On the other hand , a sudden large weight gain that 's not from eating good food , but from retaining large amounts of fluid , could be a sign of pre-eclampsia , a condition that restricts the blood flow to the placenta . |
| 28 | ‘ I just do my daily training , and if a race comes up I go , but without setting any targets . |
| 29 | A much better approach is modular software where a number of packages from a single supplier all share a common data format allowing information to be transferred easily but without requiring vast amounts of memory . |
| 30 | Our policy on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography may have led us to over estimate the association , but without performing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography on unselected patients with HIV infection ( with and without cryptosporidiosis ) , precise figures can not be given . |