Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to go beyond this general observation we must examine the pattern of accumulation since the late fifties . |
| 2 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 3 | A capital shares tax uses the concept of a wealth tax as a starting point — that is , as a means of raising revenue by a levy on wealth — but goes beyond this by proposing how this revenue could be used . |
| 4 | We promote safety , but coupled with this is common sense . |
| 5 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 6 | She had had Moorlake House and was in the red an " the Moorlake Secretarial School did n't have enough pupils , but driving along this morning , she felt curiously content . |
| 7 | Albireo is the faintest of the stars in the X , and is further away from the centre of the pattern , marked by Gamma ; but to compensate for this , Albireo is the loveliest double in the sky , with a golden-yellow primary and a 5.4-magnitude blue companion . |
| 8 | Examined in detail ( Fig. 5.7 ) this simple model repeats the problems of fitting the city wards identified by both the Shotgun and the Focused models , but adds to this a tendency towards relative over-prediction in the rural wards to the north and east of the area . |
| 9 | Yeah , but according to this there 's a payment been put in and she ai n't paid it . |
| 10 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 11 | But wandering around this town , however delightful , held little charm for her without his company . |
| 12 | But confronted with this unbreathing creature surmounted by that frozen but guiltless female face , I felt only pity . |
| 13 | Who could choose but look on this picture , and on that , and acknowledge and be shocked by the inevitable comparison ? |
| 14 | No other injuries — but look at this hand ! ’ |
| 15 | Now that okay no problems there , second and third but look at this , he gave the first second and third and they did n't even have a handicap . |
| 16 | But look at this — and you still can , |
| 17 | But look at this . |
| 18 | Lonely : The spiritual isolation of the disease is lonely enough but add to this the " Jekyll and Hyde " behaviour ( depending upon whether or not a drink or drug has been taken that day ) causing untold damage to family and other relationships and the loneliness becomes intense . |
| 19 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 20 | But lying behind this is a rather higher claim which deserves not altogether sceptical consideration . |
| 21 | Section A is fairly similar to the intro , but going through this section for the second time do n't forget to use the alternative fill in bar 5 . |
| 22 | If the compost is intended for your vegetable garden , you can use hydrated lime in the alternate layers , but beware of this if you plan to use the compost on rhododendrons , azaleas or other lime-hating plants . |
| 23 | Malpas , the captain , normally deals with such intrusions efficiently , but blundered on this occasion with a slack header towards his goalkeeper which Wright intercepted and guided beyond the advancing Main . |
| 24 | In the first month of its operation it received 280 inquiries ; but commenting on this figure , a spokesman said : ‘ We expect a dramatic increase in inquiries once head teachers come back from holiday and examine the information we have sent them ’ . |
| 25 | But to conclude from this that the quality of his faith lay in the fact that he trusted God for no reason whatever is quite illegitimate . |
| 26 | But staying with this definition for the time being , there is a general assumption in much writing in this field that although total age related dependency may not be about to rise very much , the shift to larger numbers of elderly and the fall in the numbers of the very young will increase the costs of dependency because the elderly are more costly ; they make more demands on expensive services than the young . |
| 27 | But set against this conditioned , non-autonomous female self are various images of a female self that would be authentic , that would transcend or shatter this conditioning . |
| 28 | The mean velocity , for example , is the same at all points at the same distance from the axis , but varies with this distance . |
| 29 | But penning in this raucous melee are buildings that seem all shutters and grids . |
| 30 | The Irish Republican Socialist party ( I RSP ) , which had been associated with Official Sinn Fein ( Republican Clubs ) , at one time considered the possibility of participating but decided against this shortly after the election was announced . |