Example sentences of "but [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries city after city set the bishop aside ( often with his consent ) and established committees of consuls , or some other ruling authority , not perhaps quite democratic — for they represented the powerful citizens , not the polloi — but reflecting a new and vivid aspiration . |
| 2 | At the time of its production , Diaghilev was convinced that another truly Russian ballet was needed , traditional in essence but reflecting the revolutionary ideas of contemporary artists working in Russia as well as Paris . |
| 3 | He compares three studies , carried out respectively in 1949 , 1972 and 1983 , but reflecting the educational and social conditions of well before those dates . |
| 4 | Sir William dealt with this in his own typical fashion , hanging three Douglas ringleaders there and then , but demanding a like example to be made of the Hamiltons , which was scarcely equitable , since the Douglases had started it all and were three times as numerous as their hereditary foes . |
| 5 | A girl 's voice , soft and guarded , but touching a familiar chord in my befogged mind . |
| 6 | Follow steps 2 to 5 again , but using a different filename |
| 7 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 8 | See paper being made following the traditional method , but using a recycled base to which fragments of plant leaves and petals are added for colour and texture |
| 9 | They are fixed in much the same way that ceramic tiles are stuck to internal walls , but using a special adhesive mortar suitable for outdoor use . |
| 10 | Printing in several colours is expensive , but using a single colour ink , not necessarily black , is much less so . |
| 11 | CCD delay lines tend to be fussy about the clock signal timing , but using the matching clock chip should avoid any problems . |
| 12 | This means that a policy of increasing government spending but maintaining a balanced budget will have a net expansionary effect on the economy . |
| 13 | Lucy Jackson pioneered our answer after painstaking hours of study , blood , sweat and tears and disillusion — a FASTER FITNESS programme based on the ‘ follow me ’ principle , but maintaining the underlying basics of Medau movement , including a slower rate of floor work to balance the more active elements . |
| 14 | The moment Duclos fell , his two young French assistants and the cai started instinctively towards him ; but seeing the electrifying force of spontaneous , hate-inspired rebellion sweeping through the crowd of five hundred coolies , they froze where they stood , their faces blanching with fear . |
| 15 | Grumbling slightly , but accepting the inevitable , the cast once again made to leave , but Paul Lexington again stopped them . |
| 16 | But offsetting the above views was an awareness among party leaders that many welfare programmes , particularly old age pensions and the National Health Service , are very popular with voters . |
| 17 | In most Boards , commercial officers were preoccupied with the immense task of standardising the mass of different consumer tariffs inherited from the separate undertakings on nationalisation , avoiding rapid change which would upset consumers , but producing a coherent , standard charge which would be defensible . |
| 18 | Wire core splitting caused considerable deformation of laminated intervals making recognition of laminations difficult but producing a characteristic roughened surface . |
| 19 | attempts to solve this conundrum by drawing the following distinction : a misconstruction of the enabling statute describing the kind of case into which the tribunal is meant to inquire will go to jurisdiction , but misconstruing a statutory description of the situation that the tribunal has to determine will , at most , be an error within jurisdiction . |
| 20 | It may well be the case that an egregious idiocy has formed the basis of a political tradition — examples of this are plentiful — but ridiculing an historical phenomenon does not explain it . |
| 21 | By contrast , the analogous question in the case of postnominal attributives , aimed at a determiner and noun but omitting a following adjective , is not possible , as we can see from ( 22 ) , whichever of the two ways we try to do it ; and again this is predictable given the difference in structure . |
| 22 | Because of the growing expense of the festival , this year 's event is reduced to six days , opening traditionally on the Friday , but ending the following Wednesday . |
| 23 | For five months , therefore , after Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication , Baldwin remained Prime Minister , steadily handing over control to Chamberlain , but keeping a watching brief in matters of defence . |
| 24 | This is an interesting example of the patient learning what is expected ( no glycosuria ) but adopting the wrong solution . |
| 25 | ( 30 ) But launching a new cigarette in today 's climate of disapproval requires finesse . |
| 26 | Yet many of them share Mr Mukhametshin 's problem : making the first pile of cash was quick and relatively easy , but becoming a corporate tycoon — which usually involves a shift from trading to manufacturing — is hugely difficult in Russia 's topsy-turvy economy . |
| 27 | Technically , examples 1–5 should be played with a pick , but muting the unrequired string as you play the sixths . |
| 28 | Still , there Jackie sat , first time in a sea kayak , not just coping but relishing the hairy conditions . |
| 29 | For security , every fourth or fifth row is nailed in place as well , but replacing an individual tile is usually fairly easy . |
| 30 | But replacing the front wheel of a motorbike ? |