Example sentences of "but [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to see them as marginal or peripheral is something else again . |
| 2 | By not assigning 9 , but using it as " an octave device " , one could establish as a convention a way of producing a hierarchy of numbers allowing for almost infinite addition in array . |
| 3 | He was most likely not even reading the Strand , but sniffing it and with it the atmosphere around him . |
| 4 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 5 | Only " tough love " is helpful , loving the sufferer but allowing him or her to take the full consequences of all actions caused by the disease . |
| 6 | By doing this you will enlarge her family circle , and by ignoring her nervousness — but praising her when she shows independence — she will broaden her horizons . |
| 7 | Also on July 19 Adriaan Vlok , then Minister of Law and Order , admitted that the police had provided covert funding to Inkatha but described it as " non-political " . |
| 8 | If so , it might be an idea to talk to the people who not only insure aeroplanes , but fly them as well ! |
| 9 | Yet this was in fact a pseudo-problem because Catholics do not worship Mary , but honour her as mother of the Christ whom they do worship . |
| 10 | The Bishop of Lincoln thought it ridiculous that this powerful engine which was Michael Ramsey should be used in a tiny little parish , and said so , but blessed him when he found he wanted to go . |
| 11 | Mothers were twice as likely to scold the older children and tell them to stop ; with younger children , however , they tended not to scold but to distract them and try to interest them in something other than the source of conflict . |
| 12 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 13 | He had also considered the use of high pressure steam but dismissed it as too dangerous . |
| 14 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 15 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 16 | But forgive me and let me succeed . |
| 17 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 18 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 19 | Bonar Law first welcomed the idea as a means of reducing his party 's dependence on " the trade " , but opposed it when he recognized the scale of party feeling . |
| 20 | JEWKES : Not stand shill-I-shall-I as he does , but put you and himself both out of your pain . |
| 21 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 22 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 23 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
| 24 | Robert , glancing at her for confirmation , saw her frown , but ignored it and nodded his thanks to the keeper . |
| 25 | You are expected not just to have one by you , but to answer it or , if you can not ( because you are ‘ in a meeting ’ ) , then to have a secretary to take messages and make sure that calls are returned . |
| 26 | ‘ I can manage , ’ she said firmly , shaking her head in an effort to banish images which frightened her , but enthralled her as well . |
| 27 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |
| 28 | He had planned to make this tour in January , but postponed it because of the Gulf war . |
| 29 | He hopes that the discussion will not take up too much of their time , but assures them that their advice and guidance will be of great importance . |
| 30 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |