Example sentences of "but they [vb base] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But they follow a positive assertion : " I am the Lord your God … " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 6 | But they make an important contribution to the problems of many older people . |
| 7 | Dogs , too , prey on the marine iguanas , but they eat a wide range of other animals including the rare Galapagos penguin . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In Guide , authors see the document as a reader does , but they get an enhanced view of the document , which shows structural boundaries . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We have not provided any questions specifically based upon these case studies but they provide a valuable base for further questions and exercises for students . |
| 16 | But they provide an accurate picture of what had taken place under Justinian . |
| 17 | The policies require the support of the local authority and proper resourcing but they provide an ideal framework for schools seeking to become more responsive to their pupils and the Communities they serve . |
| 18 | Compared with the other types of hair there are very few of them , but they play a vital role when the cat is exploring in poor light , or is hunting . |
| 19 | The names of feelings , like other concrete general names , are connotative ; but they connote a mere resemblance . |
| 20 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 21 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 22 | Estimates based on demographic pressures , advances in medical technology and the costs of implementing new government policies ( such as the introduction of new screening programmes ) also have their drawbacks , but they represent a pragmatic way of estimating whether funding has been adequate to keep pace with demand pressures . |
| 23 | ‘ All these people could have been married in a registrar 's office , but they want a religious and spiritual dimension to their marriage , which I think is very noble of them . ’ |
| 24 | Its front is Georgian , and inside it looks rather ordinary , but they do an excellent pub lunch and in winter there are roaring log fires . |
| 25 | But they face a big medical bill if Fran gives birth in Pittsburgh . |
| 26 | The mid-nineteenth century saw a major increase in the market and supply of pornography : its concerns ( flagellatory , the cross-class seduction of servants and young girls , and so on ) were often different in substance from our own ( there was little homosexuality for instance ) , but they illustrate a growing demand for fantasy fulfilment in the very heart of ‘ respectability ’ . |
| 27 | As people get wealthier right , one of the , they not only demand more goods , but they demand a wider variety of what is essentially or what can be classified as the same good . |
| 28 | B-trees are also multi-level indexes but they have a tree-structured index and perform much better ( particularly in the way they can absorb new records ) . |
| 29 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 30 | Chemical companies may posture regret , but they have a vested interest in increasing Third World sales , as markets in industrialized countries are shrinking . |