Example sentences of "but they [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aston Villa are having a great run , but they hold no particular horrors for the Norwich players . |
| 2 | Preteceille and Terrail ( 1985 ) provide a recent elaboration of this position , taking into account the various approaches emerging from cultural anthropology , but they retain the classic Marxist conception that modern ‘ needs ’ can only be accounted for in terms of the search by capital for greater profits , and that consumption is always subservient to production interests ( e.g. 1985 : 37–81 ) . |
| 3 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 4 | Creole and Cajun cooking are broadly French-based , but they reflect the great American ability to assimilate other cultures , turning them into something uniquely their own . |
| 5 | The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today . |
| 6 | They provide similar network and printer management functions through JetAdmin and JetPrint by plugging directly into the printer 's parallel port but they support a single selectable protocol . |
| 7 | Studies of series of patients who have been operated on report survival not much worse than that expected for the age matched general population , but they ignore the possible effects of length-time bias and case selection for operation . |
| 8 | In our marriage counselling we have met many who have a good understanding of how they should be treating their partner , but they lack the proper motivation . |
| 9 | The workers fear it may be sold , but they 've no legal redress . |
| 10 | You get some boys join the police , they 're blessed with brains but they 've no common sense . |
| 11 | But they follow a positive assertion : " I am the Lord your God … " |
| 12 | These guys do n't blow women away ( in fact they flinch at the sight of guns ) but they exclude the opposite sex from their inner life . |
| 13 | Now they are diesel , but they remain the essential and wryly-beloved familiars of the city . |
| 14 | They look quite dull and uninteresting when lying on the beaches around Whitby and Scarborough , but they take a brilliant polish and look wonderful when mounted as jewellery . |
| 15 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 16 | But they take the interpretive attitude toward these abstract propositions , and their opinions about Elmer 's legal rights express an interpretation rather than a direct and uncontroversial application of the institution of legislation . |
| 17 | The dimensions of the flats are almost as modest as Loudon 's , but they make the maximum use of the space provided , as the key to the plan suggests . |
| 18 | But they make an important contribution to the problems of many older people . |
| 19 | Dogs , too , prey on the marine iguanas , but they eat a wide range of other animals including the rare Galapagos penguin . |
| 20 | Incisor digestion is almost always greater than molar digestion , so that most points fall above the equal proportion line ( Fig. 3.25 ) , but they show a high level of correlation ( r = 0.848 ) . |
| 21 | Lanto Synge , Mallett & Son , London ( leading dealers in English furniture ) : Themes certainly do stretch us artistically and commercially but they present an interesting and challenging exercise . |
| 22 | True , they do not get any cash , but they get a big chunk of valuable stock and , most important , they get to leave the Unix business and stop supporting the big white Unix elephant . |
| 23 | In Guide , authors see the document as a reader does , but they get an enhanced view of the document , which shows structural boundaries . |
| 24 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 25 | Dragons love virgins , but they hate the creamy smell of female desire that will bring the young men to their caves , to steal and kill . |
| 26 | But they hate the very word ‘ democrat ’ ! |
| 27 | But they hate the High Street . |
| 28 | But they say the old man did n't have anything to do with it , but I du n no , he could have had something to do with it , I du n no . |
| 29 | There have been extensive criticisms of these tests as they are not predictive of later ability but they provide a rough guideline to any inequalities across the range of developmental areas . |
| 30 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |