Example sentences of "but [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 2 | Susan particularly liked the hat , which was perhaps a touch mannish for her chosen persona but passed thanks to its raffish qualities . |
| 3 | Mr Peter Lloyd , the Home Office junior minister , agreed that more powers for local authority inspectors were necessary , but to compel licensing of all breeders would place unnecessary restrictions on pet owners wanting to sell a litter . |
| 4 | In order to avoid successive mark-up problems , the manufacturers may each decide to charge input at marginal cost , but gain benefits by imposing a positive franchise fee . |
| 5 | Two sets sit General/Foundation Mathematics ie : they are on a General Course but sit Foundation as a safety net . |
| 6 | I know but but eat custard with meringue . |
| 7 | Finally , some psychiatrists in the US argued that the black person was relatively free of madness in a state of slavery , but became prey to mental disturbance when set free . |
| 8 | ‘ The endeavours of a man truly good , ’ he once wrote , ‘ are not confined to this or that particular design , but lay hold on all opportunities of doing the best service he can to the souls and bodies of mankind . ’ |
| 9 | Good health is as much to do with being in good spirits , being happy and content , coping with the problems and difficulties of life , but enjoying life to the fullest extent possible . |
| 10 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 11 | The bulge I swung beneath on pitch six of the Cavales West Ridge was one of those , I swear — but given V in the guide ! |
| 12 | The upmarket chain , whose shops resemble regular bookshops but sell books at half the regular prices , has carefully selected sites in Oxford , Cambridge , Bristol , Brighton , Reading , Marlow and Ealing , and in London in Covent Garden , Charing Cross Road and King 's Road , Chelsea . |
| 13 | Building towers of different sized bricks but using bricks in one-to-one correspondence , probably with the teacher 's guidance . |
| 14 | South Africa and the US have experimented with similar works , but using coal as feedstock . |
| 15 | At twenty , he was too old for youth training schemes , but lacked experience for the type of job he wanted in book-keeping . |
| 16 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 17 | It calls itself socialist , but wins seats in rural constituencies which have no time for socialism . |
| 18 | He collapses into a miserable heap , but to round things off his shepherd comes to report that one of the sheep is missing , and identifies the disputed sheepskin as that of this beast . |
| 19 | The JUSTICE proposal advocated the establishment of a Contingency Legal Aid Fund , financed by contributions from successful litigants , which would pay lawyers on a normal basis but recoup costs on a contingency basis . |
| 20 | They put up notices about the project in community centres , general practitioners ' waiting rooms , and clinics ; again not formally advertising posts , but to alert people to the possibility of involvement with the Home Support Project . |
| 21 | ‘ I got to Holland and Belgium last August with the Ireland training panel but failed to win my first cap , but helping Ulster to another Leinster Regiment Cup may be just the springboard this time . ’ |
| 22 | The official media carried no details of the demonstrations , but made announcements about proposed reforms in the electoral code . |
| 23 | He failed at Whitehall before the king , but made converts of Robert Boyle , Andrew Marvell , John Evelyn and many others ‘ of known honesty and intelligence ’ . |
| 24 | The resonance of this fine building did not do much for the choir 's inaccurate diction , but made amends by enriching the gracious stone quality of the singing in Haydn 's Little Organ Mass and Faure 's Requiem . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the gastronomic-minded citizens grumbled , but made shift with the aid of the black-market , so that throughout 1916 the food scarcity was still barely noticeable . |
| 26 | This author 's subsequent papers made no mention of Scotland , but made use of techniques developed during the course of his fieldwork . |
| 27 | This author 's subsequent papers made no mention of Scotland , but made use of techniques developed during the course of his fieldwork . |
| 28 | The umpires green-flagged the crash but penalised Stripes for hitting the mark , effectively giving Kanza the race . |
| 29 | The study of both Cramlington and North Shields is therefore not just a matter of the comparative examination of interestingly contrasted localities , but involves consideration of the way in which the real relationships between these localities constitutes the Tyneside of today . |
| 30 | This international project is organized from a Department of Quaternary Geology but involves inputs from physical geographers as well as from biologists , geologists and archaeologists . |