Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the days immediately after the General Election defeat , Mr Smith not only launched his bid but got into an impregnable position thanks to his support from the big unions . |
| 2 | He did not hit a crisp drive but recovered with an excellent three wood which enabled him to secure a birdie four to Frost 's par . |
| 3 | They cost about 50 pence each to make , but sell for an average of £12.99 . |
| 4 | She did not want to go , but lived in an unmodernised house with a coal fire as the main source of heat . |
| 5 | This quaint description is not a manifestation of that well-known British chauvinism and insularity , but refers to an odd habit the human animal has of inserting bits and pieces of various shapes and sizes into different holes and orifices . |
| 6 | The pain is the price of freedom : not just freedom in a spiritual kingdom after death , but realised in an inner freedom to love . |
| 7 | None the less an examination of the special reasons why the Plowden proposition is accepted as a truism in general but treated as an abominable heresy in particular may be worthwhile . |
| 8 | In addition , production taxes not included in this heading but treated as an operating expense of BP Exploration amounted to £995 million , compared with £1,001 million in 1991 . |
| 9 | This does not amount to a rejection of Marx but points to an absence in his work and leaves Habermas free to retain a basically Marxist account of the forces of production and at the same time develop a theory of social relations of communicative production . |
| 10 | This is too harsh , but points to an important ambiguity in Foucault 's work : the neologisms and allusive argument conceal an approximation to older theoretical traditions . |
| 11 | The club closes after May 27 to go to Ibiza , but reopens with an all-dayer on July 1 . |
| 12 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 13 | Development will come , he says , but built on an understanding of the forest and not a brutal sacking of its riches . |
| 14 | The situation will be reviewed this morning by a medical-nursing and management team but according to an insider , the five operating theatres knocked out of action by the bomb may not be deemed re-sterilised before Friday . |
| 15 | Marvin is a Liverpool fan but played for an Everton junior side last season and has still not made his mind up for whom to sign . |
| 16 | It is not just A Good Thing , but seen as an important part of the business . |
| 17 | In contract Mr does not count hours , but arrives at an overall figure of seven thousand five hundred pounds . |
| 18 | There are scenes in variety , but connected by an interesting theme and one that she made particularly her own , the self-deceiver . |
| 19 | Here , in the ‘ Surrexit Christus ’ ( for three-part choir , two violini , two cornetti , and four trombones ) and ‘ In ecclesiis ’ ( for four soloists , four-part choir , violino , two cornetti , and four trombones ) , the obbligato parts are not only independent but written in an unmistakably instrumental style while the florid or declamatory vocal solos are contrasted with the generally block-like — but at times harmonically startling — chords of the choir . |
| 20 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 21 | Gimli 's ‘ Song of Durin' at I 329–30 is dwarvishly plain and active , but still carries on the sense of decay in Middle-earth opposed to ultimate hope ; Legolas 's ‘ Song of Nimrodel ’ a little later makes similar oppositions but ends on an opposite note , of faltering and ultimate defeat on the ‘ Hither Shore ’ . |
| 22 | In another year , a capital receipt was credited to the profit and loss account but shown as an extraordinary item . |
| 23 | It should be emphasised , however , that epistemologically at least any individuation of such events can not but begin with an individuation of perceptual things , and consequently that its success or failure will inevitably depend upon the success or failure of the latter . |
| 24 | King , reviled by many , but acknowledged as an expert in the cynical exploitation of the pop world sniped : ‘ I thought when Kylie Minogue did ‘ I Should Be So Lucky , Lucky , Lucky , ’ it was one of the most awful things I have ever heard . |
| 25 | However , the rewards which the tutors receive for their labours are not merely financial , but lie in an increased knowledge of the subject concerned , the regard and friendship of the next generation of the actuarial profession , and the repayment of the debt they owe to those who were their tutors and to their profession . |
| 26 | People forget there were rumours going round that WIN and some of the other spies were not just penetrated in Poland , but betrayed by an agent inside SIS in London — apart from Philby . ’ |
| 27 | These are the famous twins Kleobis and Biton , in Cycladic marble but signed by an Argive sculptor ( … medes ) and dedicated by the people of Argos at Delphi , where they were seen by Herodotus who tells their story . |
| 28 | Public protection committee chairman Jim Campbell said : ‘ This is a new idea , but based on an old-fashioned pride in your street and neighbourhood . ’ |
| 29 | Bishop looked to be held on the line by two Trinity forwards but wriggled like an eel to get free and touch down . |
| 30 | The Commandment anticipates The Form but is less comprehensive in its analysis , whereas in Ego Dormio although he does not borrow Victorine terminology for his analysis , he nevertheless outlines a growth in religious experience similar to that in The Form but starting at an earlier stage in religious life . |