Example sentences of "but [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 10 am , with the French heavily outnumbered but enjoying the weather gauge , as a ‘ small gale ’ was blowing from the south-south-west , some miles off Cap Barfleur , at the north-east point of the Cotentin peninsula , de Tourville , who had no faith in the proposed invasion , led his ships towards the enemy . |
| 2 | The Maggot was not taking evasive action but quartering the ground in search of our enemy . |
| 3 | But Touching the Void presented Joe Simpson with as many questions as it answered . |
| 4 | However the Russian " tooke occasion to deceive his Excellence , and falsify his word , hanging in the aire betwixt the armes of his servants , and but touching the earth with his tiptoes , whilst the Ambassador came out freely " . |
| 5 | Even scrambling might cause a problem , but using the jacket for walking and general leisure is OK . |
| 6 | But using the technique of genetic fingerprinting at the Cellmark laboratories in Abingdon , scientists discounted the claims the birds were sisters . |
| 7 | But using the state pension age as a criterion is likely to result in unlawful discrimination not only on the question of retirement . |
| 8 | As our eyes met in the glass , I realized that she was not admiring the flaking stone blocks opposite but using the window as a mirror . |
| 9 | This is a difficult boundary-value problem , but using the method of images we only need to determine the electric flux density due to the two point charges . |
| 10 | Turns onto headings will be made at the standard rate , but using the stop-watch , not magnetic compass . |
| 11 | So without working it out , but using the graph now , how far would he be after three and a half hours ? |
| 12 | The next oldest product is then plotted in the same way , but using the graph of product A as the base line where both are forecast to be in production together . |
| 13 | Not among the winners in 1986 , but completing the course and receiving a certificate to prove it , was a sixty-nine year old man . |
| 14 | But seeing the debt on your house reduce is a very satisfying feeling . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a great beach but it 's not like my home beach of Port Philip Bay , in Melbourne , which is a bit messy , but seeing the sea I get a great urge to swim in it . |
| 16 | ‘ Organic ’ does not mean copying natural forms but seeing the structure in nature , how natural form works efficiently with minimum energy output . |
| 17 | but seeing the buzzard 's skull , is horrified |
| 18 | There was smoke coming from her father 's chimney , but seeing the inside of the cottage made her heart ache . |
| 19 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 20 | But seeing the pleading in her eyes and aware that she was on the very brink of womanhood , he knew that he must give her her head and allow her to marry if that was what she wanted . |
| 21 | Mrs Reynolds was in the doorway , almost ready herself to go to the wedding — she never missed a wedding or a funeral — but seeing the procession that approached withdrew back into the shadows of the room to observe better the old cockerel go by followed by his dismayed pullets . |
| 22 | But seeing the confusion on her desk , all the things that had to be done , she lost heart . |
| 23 | But accepting the fetishism of normality can never even address these problems , let alone resolve them . |
| 24 | The plan and appearance of houses , the way they are furnished , mirror the social values of their time ; but the best define themselves against those values , inheriting the past , receiving the present , but shaping the future . |
| 25 | By the way , I deplore the practice employed by some filling stations of having several premium unleaded pumps on the forecourt but tucking the standard and cheaper fuel , away in a corner . |
| 26 | He 's as well sit pushing papers around pretending to be busy but drawing the salary than being made redundant which is what ought to be happening . |
| 27 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 28 | In the church of the new literary criticism , he has also prayed and mocked , publishing critical books of his own but satirising the gurus of metafictional inquiry in his novels : Nice Work 's laconic demolition of Lacan has survived to reach the BBC . |
| 29 | This technique involves feeding the child orally but allowing the food to pass out through a surgically produced fistula at the side of the neck . |
| 30 | The CNAA 's ideas were taking a different shape in 1975 , showing an unwillingness to go as far as delegating authority for the approval of courses , but pursuing the idea of ‘ internal validation ’ . |