Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paint , however , should always be washable — do not use emulsion because you will not bc able to wash grease and smoke off easily , but rather use gloss or eggshell finishes . |
| 2 | Then Mr Neal read from Romans 12 : ‘ Avenge not yourselves , but rather give place unto wrath … vengeance is mine : I will repay saith the Lord ’ . |
| 3 | But eventually machine cutting and rival roofing materials reduced the workforce until the quarries became mere shadows of their former selves and made the area one of high unemployment . |
| 4 | ‘ We do our best to hunt them down , but eventually accept defeat , ’ says Chris Henderson , who helps edit the biennial volume from Beckenham , Kent . |
| 5 | The stylised confrontations of adversary politics produce heated debate and a flood of legislation but rarely encourage reassessment of the conventional wisdom or result in agreed and constructive change . |
| 6 | But perhaps Tod Friendly has need of the city , where he can always move among others , where he is never considered singly . |
| 7 | But much volunteer help now flows to statutory services , like hospitals and old people 's homes . |
| 8 | Its symbolism may or may not be universal for all mankind , or for all within one culture , but enough dream material is common for others to be interested and gripped by a person who recounts his dreams . |
| 9 | In a lake with a negative K but in which acidifying inputs are declining , not only will hydrogen ion ( Hsup+ ; ) concentrations ( and aluminium concentrations ) decrease but so will calcium concentrations ( Ca 2 + ; ) . |
| 10 | Breadth of knowledge will be tested — but so will understanding . |
| 11 | Maybe deficiency of income affects health ; but so do housing and the environment , and so do conditions of employment . |
| 12 | I am 5′ 1″ tall and a size 10–12 , but only take size 2½–3 in shoes . |
| 13 | ‘ But only vun person was poisoned , ’ pointed out Heinrich . |
| 14 | In such cases protection may be justified in the short term to alleviate the employment effects of a rundown of the industry but long run protectionism would reduce the potential material living standards of the working population . |
| 15 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 16 | Although Uzell reckons there are no real dominant players , he divides the competition into four main areas : computer vendors , such as IBM Corp and ICL , which he reckons have the geographical scope and financial muscle to deal with the global demands of systems integration projects , but are unlikely to be independent , are often too hardware-oriented and lack the relevant software expertise ; management consultancies , such as Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse , which he believes do have the necessary business knowledge , but generally lack implementation skills and have little experience of large-scale project management ; telecommunications suppliers , such as AT&T Co and France Telecom , which again he reckons are too hardware-oriented and short of software skills ; and software houses , such as Electronic Data Systems Corp and Cap Gemini Sogeti SA , which he recommends for their independence and expertise , but feels that few are international enough or have the necessary financial clout to handle large deals . |
| 17 | This formed the basis of an informal but generally close working relationship between the cooperative movement and the Labour Party ( and via this with the trade unions ) until a national agreement in 1927 formalised it . |
| 18 | There was little the Phoenix King could do but finally declare war against one of his own realms . |
| 19 | I do n't know , but just take mine … |
| 20 | ‘ But still take care . |
| 21 | However , if the clause contains two or more restrictions , the court may hold one unreasonable but still allow reliance on the other , provided that the two are severable . |
| 22 | Emerging autonomy — the employees begin to define their own role but still need guidance . |
| 23 | Privatisation moves may initially favour a strengthening of links with foreigners , but later give way to greater support for local firms when their objections to being excluded are heard . |
| 24 | I wanted to use the crayons in an exploratory way but also keep control of the drawing as it was part of a set . |
| 25 | ‘ She said immigration was an issue which ought to be raised because it was going to affect not only employment and social service benefits , but also cause homelessness . |
| 26 | While the Thatcher government has had a major policy aim of controlling public expenditure and has used the block-grant regime and rate-capping to that end , centrally imposed financial controls not only infringe the rights of elected councillors to determine local spending needs and priorities but also undermine accountability to local ratepayers . |
| 27 | certain shoe companies , namely Karhu and New Balance , offer a more precise assessment with fitting machines which not only measures your feet but also indicate foot type . |
| 28 | This connection is normally secured theoretically and depends upon well- established law-like relationships which are not only expressed mathematically but also indicate measurement units , as in the case of the thermometer . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , these apparently simple arrangements belie more complex interrelationships ( Fig. 85 ) : not all places had access to sufficient wood stocks , and owners of well-wooded land would not only supply their own estates but also sell wood to less-wooded estates . |
| 30 | This will not only facilitate the request but also enable consideration of continuity . |