Example sentences of "but [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presteigne ( the modern spelling ) had a railway connection , completed in 1875 but planned some years earlier ( see below ) , which lasted right up till Dr Beeching 's Axe . |
| 2 | In state assembly by-elections Congress ( I ) suffered losses in Kerala and Goa , but made some gains in Andhra Pradesh , Bihar , Karnataka , Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal . |
| 3 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 4 | The European problem was not to oppose the American proposal adamantly , but to find some compromise that would both satisfy the United States and assuage European fears of a revitalised German militarism . |
| 5 | Electronic coursework is widely practised , and the purpose of this paper is not to expound any revolutionary new ideas , but to relate some experiences and to present some issues for discussion . |
| 6 | He rejected stale prices as a cause , but found some support for arbitrage risk as an explanation of mispricing . |
| 7 | But most of them are keeping their options open , sending part of the family back to their traditional shambas or plots , but keeping some people in the city . |
| 8 | Babies who are born normal , but encounter some form of birth trauma or injury are brain damaged , and the nature of their handicap will depend on the part of the brain affected . |
| 9 | The Na + /H + encoded by the second cDNA sequence has been less extensively characterised but has some properties common to those of the ileal apical membrane Na + /H + exchanger , including a relative resistance to amiloride . |
| 10 | He can not ‘ frame a general notion by abstracting from particulars ’ to form an ‘ abstract idea ’ of ‘ man ’ 'wherein , it is true there is included colour , because there is no man but has some colour , but then it can be neither white nor black , nor any particular colour ; because there is no one particular colour wherein all men partake . ’ |
| 11 | Lucianne Sawyer , president of the UK Home Care Association , is less forceful but has some reservations . |
| 12 | Just as Crookes ' experiments on cathode rays not merely revealed but solved some mysteries , so science would gain ground steadily upon the dark , reducing the area of the unknown . |
| 13 | Suppose one trains an animal on a task that normally results in it learning , but adds some treatment that prevents the learning from occurring , then if the biochemical process under study is really a process which is specifically associated with the memory formation , it should not occur if the memory is blocked . |
| 14 | Some sort of squash will do , but put some slices of apple and orange in , to make it look something special . ’ |
| 15 | Both Athelstan and Cranston gripped the warm bowls and sipped at the rich stew which scalded their mouths and lips but put some warmth into their frozen bellies . |
| 16 | If each betrays the other , both are convicted of the crime , but receive some credit for giving evidence and get a somewhat reduced , though still stiff , sentence , the Punishment for mutual defection . |
| 17 | Neither partner has given it a thought for years , but let some outsider come barging in as though he owned the place and it 's war . |
| 18 | Therefore , producing the package rather than one product means the firm gains the economies of scope but loses some economies of scale in the product that it would have produced more intensively . |
| 19 | Editor , — S Kinmond and others ' study of early versus late umbilical cord clamping shows an apparent improvement in outcome with a simple intervention but raises some questions . |
| 20 | Both completed 90 minutes in this week 's 1–1 draw with Sheffield United Reserves at St James Park , but look some way off full match fitness . |
| 21 | But consider some sport — say , rock climbing . |
| 22 | The national debate concerning Canada 's constitutional future — particularly Quebec 's role within it — which had been under way since the collapse in June 1990 of the Meech Lake Accord [ see pp. 37519-20 ] , continued in June but showed some evidence of a greater willingness to compromise by both the separatist French minority and the English-speaking majority . |
| 23 | Pemell 's publications were all in the vernacular , but showed some knowledge of Latin , and were derived from classical and contemporary learned authors , with a few references to his own experience . |
| 24 | Farley brings a serious , concert-platform manner to the songs , she does n't stick to soprano arias but includes some adaptations of choral numbers from Happy End and Berlin Requiem as well as Mrs Peachum 's ‘ Ballade von der Sexuellen Hörigkeit ’ . |
| 25 | I think , I think we need a meeting to get it laid down , we need a meeting to clear the air or not clear the air necessarily but get some definitions some definitions down yeah ? |
| 26 | Probably a ‘ must ’ for a dedicated career secretary but requires some determination . |
| 27 | In any case there is a need for widespread intercommunication which may be mainly informal but requires some formality to ensure that clashes of attitude do not delay or distort decisions and to make sure also that finalised decisions are unambiguously recorded . |
| 28 | Jessica not only leaves the house unguarded but takes some money as well , saying in line 34 of Act two scene six ‘ Here , catch this casket ’ and then in line 50 ‘ with some more ducats ’ . |
| 29 | These were mainly from changing daily habits , but included some medicines . |
| 30 | Rinuccini 's next favola for music , a Euridice with a happy ending , was composed by Peri ( but included some pieces by Caccini which are duly acknowledged in the preface ) for the wedding of Maria de' Medici to Henry IV of France and performed in the Pitti Palace on 6 October 1600 . |