Example sentences of "but [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More sophisticated and complex computer models of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ can be constructed to produce precise estimates for the future , but given the many untestable assumptions of ‘ epidemic ’ models ( particularly those based only on figures for known users during a relatively short time period , as in the present case ) , we did not attempt such an exercise . |
| 2 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 3 | He began hesitantly , to be certain he was not boring his acquaintance , but seeing the same expression on the Colonel 's face as had been there before , he flew on like one of his mighty clippers before the wind . |
| 4 | I had no razor or toiletries , but made the most of the bathroom shower and hot water and began to feel better . |
| 5 | But make the most of your chance , because soon our emperors will exist like those of China — only in the dusty pages of history books . |
| 6 | The job was initially priced over two years ago for a different scheme but incorporating the same layout . |
| 7 | BLAKE BABIES singer Juliana has released a record that 's spacier than her band efforts , but has the same breezy , poignant quality . |
| 8 | Mayor of Winglebury ( fict. ) , a shady attorney whose muddled intervention averts a duel between Alexander Trott and Horace Hunter , but causes the former to be treated as a lunatic . |
| 9 | Actually he did n't call it a third round , since he did n't solicit new entries but used the same 63 as for Round 2 . |
| 10 | They sold out to Taunton Cider — but ignored the former ICI boss 's advice and bought it back again earlier this year . |
| 11 | The new models have significant improvements over their predecessors , but cost the same . |
| 12 | Reducing taxes does not increase costs , but achieves the same desired end . |
| 13 | The second aspect of the school meals changes are with that alternative meal saving and would best be introduced erm if members were to decide that this is the way we wanted to go from April ninety five rather than in Sept September ninety four as suggested and attached to the report and that delays the savings , but achieves the same saving but not until nineteen ninety six seven and you will see that the figures have been amended and to take that into account and that 's on line fifty four B appendix ten . |
| 14 | And by buying two guides but getting the same historical information in each you do feel you 're not getting full value for money . |
| 15 | Early on , they imagined that all foster parents would be like them — not so rich perhaps , but sharing the same basic standards . |
| 16 | A wood conservatory blends nicely with older homes , but requires the most maintenance . |
| 17 | ‘ It will not boil , it will not freeze , But stays the same heat , if you please ! ’ |
| 18 | The reason for this in turn is quite straightforward : in any language which makes a distinction between nouns and adjectives , it will be natural to use an adjective when assignment of a property is required ; it may sometimes be quite easy to find an adjective and a noun which express near enough — or even exactly — the same properties , and differ only in that one is an adjective and the other is a noun , but to use the latter for assignment is to risk conveying the unwanted imputation of " entity-hood " on top of the semantic value required ( see Section 1.10 ) ; therefore when a noun or noun phrase is chosen it will normally presuppose that the construction is not that of assignment of a property but instead one of equation . |
| 19 | It is separate from the agreement but forms the same purpose as would disclosure schedules contained in the agreement . |
| 20 | The ordeal of repetition is a way to jumpstart the indecision of beginning again : not to repeat what has been done but to retrace the same path . |
| 21 | But suppose the same couple are on holiday by the seaside . |
| 22 | refusing the help of family members and others who prepare " special " meals but having the same meals at the same time and in the same place as everyone else . |
| 23 | It 's very , very under-used , I use it a lot when I receive calls from engineers , elsewhere in the press , and I want to go back to my office but continue the same conversation . |
| 24 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 25 | Thus inauthentic languageusing behaviour might well be effective language-learning behaviour , but to call the latter ‘ authentic ’ seems to me to confuse the issue . |
| 26 | In other areas , too , feminist psychologists often find it acceptable to study culturally or socially different groups by modifying item contents , but deploying the same design . |
| 27 | They they may draw the same compound but making the same structural formula , but drawn slightly differently ! |
| 28 | ‘ We decided , ’ she says , ‘ to finish the record in the studio , in Windmill Two , but to get the same atmosphere as Kinvara , and it was really great in the studio , great crack . ’ |
| 29 | Coral are more generous about The Fellow , quoting 5-1 , but offer the same price about Run For Free ( from 33s ) . |
| 30 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |