Example sentences of "but [det] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is sharply aware of changing social patterns , but neither resents them , like the portraits on the wall , nor approves them with an automatic word like ‘ progress ’ . |
| 2 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher , a recent convert to environmental conservation , clearly held the opinion that environmental problems are not only soluble but that solving them can be shown to be cost-effective : |
| 4 | But that puts them all in a real quandary . |
| 5 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 6 | But some have them alone . |
| 7 | The regional team of officers began from the basepoint of the Mezey Report , but this left them with considerable policy problems to solve since the zone hospital concept was supported neither by the constituent health authorities of the region ( the AHAs and the DMTs ) , nor by the community health councils . |
| 8 | We use some of them in " polite " society or in a scientific context , but this gives them no absolute value . |
| 9 | The subject is similar — the Edwardian English abroad — but this shows them at their bigoted best . |