Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're inviting into your lives a negative force , welcoming that which tempts us all , but transforming that emptiness , that jealousy , that hatred into a living , breeding monstrosity . |
| 2 | In fact , both length and quality appear in these ( and other ) examples to operate as independent but intersecting phonological processes , and both dimensions are apparently of considerable sociolinguistic significance . |
| 3 | There might be other solutions open to organisations facing similar pressures ( one , " cooperative production " , is somewhat idealistically proposed by Piore , 1986 ) , but using temporary workers was probably the easiest to put into effect . |
| 4 | How can you ask but using that word at the beginning of it ? |
| 5 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 6 | There 's no guarantee that you will hit the perfect shot , but using this procedure gives you a stronger chance . |
| 7 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 8 | Therefore , the choice the Labour Party must face is either to transform its structure into a membership party of an equal democratic form , separate from ( but maintaining informal association with ) the trades unions , or to be stifled by its history , losing what may be the last opportunity to become a party of regeneration and progress . |
| 9 | At first girls may be preoccupied with their pregnancy or baby and see education as unimportant , but seeing other girls working soon builds their motivation . |
| 10 | When she reached the main road she did n't know which direction to take , but seeing two men accompanied by two women she hurried to them and said , ‘ Would you , please direct me to the cab rank ? ’ |
| 11 | It was difficult to refuse and thereby block their chances , but helping one student set a precedent ; any foreigners were plunged into moral dilemmas by their students who wanted help to go abroad . |
| 12 | " You do n't , but building fresh matter round it , might cause it to drop right through into the downness of spatial alti-librium . " |
| 13 | Blocking sunlight but allowing long-wave radiation to escape reduces daytime heating of the surface but allows the surface to cool at night as usual . |
| 14 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |
| 15 | Politically speaking the issue of local autonomy and sovereignty scarcely ever arose : people recognized popular committees as valuable means of access to resources ; in their democratic aspect most educated Libyans thought of them as rhetorical devices , not really conferring power on a community , but representing curious elaborations of ideology in what was really a simple and straightforward problem of administration of services . |
| 16 | Occasionally there existed a press independent of the State but representing white settler interests ; this , however , was plainly not a suitable model for the post-colonial period . |
| 17 | Some of them offer the beguiling idea that skill can influence the odds in our favour , but acquiring that skill usually means spending more time and money . |
| 18 | The latter was defined by Soviet terminology in the 1920s as all establishments producing goods for more than one household but employing thirty wage-earners or less ; or if motive power was used , fifteen wage-earners or less . |
| 19 | Some species can be extremely difficult to spawn — but keeping large species groups together until they are sexually mature can help . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Each RS/6000 is active in mode 2 , running its own applications , but enabling one system to dump its load onto the other should a processor fail . |
| 22 | Prestige comes in the shape of a Mercedes with the 240D or ‘ Stuttgart Taxi ’ , commanding £7,000 but returning unfailing reliability . |
| 23 | The problem , therefore , is not Understanding Media ( the title of McLuhan 's great if somewhat misconceived book ) but Understanding Global Capitalism , the system that produces and reproduces both the message and the media that incessantly transmit it . |
| 24 | In this way figs , Muntingia calabura ( introduced from the West Indies , but fruiting all year round ) and species of Melastoma are dispersed . |
| 25 | Miles Davis , Sly Stone , Santana , War , the Temptations and the Grateful Dead all indulged in marathon trance grooves , rippling with strange currents , often stretching beyond the bounds of endurance into boredom but hunting ecstatic release through repetition . |
| 26 | This has been most clearly shown for lung tissue but smoking related adducts have also been described in a number of other tissues for which smoking has been implicated as a cancer risk factor . |
| 27 | The Korean police , as reorganised under the occupation , included numerous former collaborators , operating as in the past but serving different masters . |
| 28 | Where we are not dealing solely with our own affairs but forming general preferences as to the kind of society we would like to live in , the main pleasures and pains we are concerned with are precisely these pleasures and pains of sympathy . |
| 29 | ‘ But scoring four goals at Anfield is brilliant . |
| 30 | ‘ People would n't read too much into our last victory over Waterford , but scoring 20 points was a fair achievement and quite a confidence booster . |