Example sentences of "but [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 2 | Some spring passage may occur in March , but involves few birds . |
| 3 | A form of extendible hashing that does not suffer from oscillations and is claimed to outperform most indexing methods , was reported by Lomet He named the method bounded index exponential hashing ; it is not strictly a direct technique , and suffers from the drawback that the file packing density is generally low , but offers many advantages for files which can grow at a rate that can not be accommodated in a static system . |
| 4 | No college leaves the use of a laboratory , workshop or studio to the choice of individual students but incorporates such activity within the curriculum . |
| 5 | By King James 's will , she is made Regent but forfeits that position by marrying the Earl of Angus . |
| 6 | The sophisticated fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) construction gives light weight with strength , but needs much planning at the design stage . |
| 7 | The following entry is taken at random , but illustrates this well . |
| 8 | Schell sticks by his findings , but wants more samples . |
| 9 | It has discarded lectures , but accepts that familiarity with concepts of the Welfare State is important so that the trainee is not fearful of the information expectations . |
| 10 | To put this a slightly different way : a contract which fixes prices but specifies that output will equal whatever is demanded must ex ante be sub-optimal for firms . |
| 11 | Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts . |
| 12 | Contrariwise , left sided lobectomy affects abstract words but has little effect on recall of concrete words ( Jones-Gotman and Milner , 1978 ) . |
| 13 | Its flesh is juicy , but has little fragrance . |
| 14 | Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners . |
| 15 | Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics . |
| 16 | Going into the studio — you have a record deal that says the record company pays for that — but has that contract been examined ? |
| 17 | The suet crust is rich , but has enough air in it to absorb a generous amount of the dark , meaty gravy . |
| 18 | Country that is too dry for tropical forest but has enough rain to ward off desert contains scattered trees in a setting that is primarily grassland . |
| 19 | The Na + /H + encoded by the second cDNA sequence has been less extensively characterised but has some properties common to those of the ileal apical membrane Na + /H + exchanger , including a relative resistance to amiloride . |
| 20 | He can not ‘ frame a general notion by abstracting from particulars ’ to form an ‘ abstract idea ’ of ‘ man ’ 'wherein , it is true there is included colour , because there is no man but has some colour , but then it can be neither white nor black , nor any particular colour ; because there is no one particular colour wherein all men partake . ’ |
| 21 | Lucianne Sawyer , president of the UK Home Care Association , is less forceful but has some reservations . |
| 22 | It has switched to the ‘ cost reimbursable form ’ , whereby the client bears the brunt of risks but has more say in how things are done . |
| 23 | The Braun Professional is more expensive but has more features . |
| 24 | The 20V8 shares the same architecture but has more input pins . |
| 25 | My diary for the holidays is , as usual , almost blank , but contains several references to having overeaten and then feeling sick , which served me right . |
| 26 | The text by Karen Wilkin ( expert on David Smith and ‘ second generation ’ Abstract Expressionists ) is elegant and accessible , but contains few surprises . |
| 27 | Suppose one trains an animal on a task that normally results in it learning , but adds some treatment that prevents the learning from occurring , then if the biochemical process under study is really a process which is specifically associated with the memory formation , it should not occur if the memory is blocked . |
| 28 | In a book published in 1975 , he praises Montini for the courage he had displayed in supporting him twenty years earlier , but adds this comment : One does not have to accept all of that to recognize that the assessment is shrewd . |
| 29 | The Ifö Aqua wc is Swedish made , but meets all UK water byelaws and is approved by the British Board of Agrément . |
| 30 | This too , however , must be seen as a presentation of the lives of human beings , which is useful perhaps for taxation purposes but bears little resemblance to the real world . |