Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confirming orders — paying the manufacturer on confirmation of an order from an overseas buyer and receiving commission , although here the export house is not actually paying the manufacturer but merely confirming liability for payment . |
| 2 | This put him off personal involvement in scientific research but probably provided material for his novels The Search and The Affair . |
| 3 | Lenin was involved in motivating revolutionary action by , in part , a critique of bureaucracy but later assumed responsibility for the economic development of a backward country that needed experts in positions of authority . |
| 4 | But for Hugh , the challenge is not only to paddle across the North Channel , but also to raise money for Roddensvale Special Care School in Larne . |
| 5 | In the centre of the opposite wall was a kitchener grate , with a small compact fire only about 12 inches × 10 inches × 10 inches , which not only kept the room beautifully warm , but also provided heat for a quite sizeable oven on the left and a hob large enough to take three saucepans . |
| 6 | At the Sollum Voe anchorage this 145 tons of sea water was pumped out and the ships patched up , causing a day 's delay but also giving time for Christmas dinner and a night 's sleep with everyone fully recovered from sea sickness , a malady with no respect for rank or courage . |
| 7 | It aims to relate to the main area of the job description , but also leaves space for people to say what seems to them significant with more freedom . |
| 8 | The irony is that once we no longer desperately need another person but really enjoy life for its own sake we are far more likely to make a satisfying relationship . |
| 9 | Stefanos Manos remained at the National Economy Ministry , but now assumed responsibility for Finance also , in a move to facilitate the process of economic reform . |
| 10 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern . |
| 11 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 12 | High income tax rates above the break-even point of any tax transfer scheme make leisure relatively cheap ( the substitution effect ) but simultaneously reduce income for buying goods including leisure ( the income effect ) . |
| 13 | Possibly 9.30pm , but please check press for transmission time . |
| 14 | All the foregoing holds true if the state does not own the business in question but simply takes responsibility for its social return . |
| 15 | He had rejected Romanticism and Idealism , but simply substituted Existentialism for them , without challenging the essentially anthropocentric focus . |
| 16 | But even making allowance for the circumstances of their times , it is impossible to save the Protestant reformers from their own political philosophy , which finds its clearest statement in the old Scots Covenants , documents much loved by Ulster conservative Protestants and the model for many unionist statements of political faith . |
| 17 | It is this , sometimes tenuous connection , coupled with the vaguely but certainly felt need for a ‘ god ’ that makes people reluctant to break away entirely , and claim to be completely atheist . |