Example sentences of "but [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that you will no longer need to offer cash discounts for early payment , but gain from increased flexibility in offering credit terms to improve your competitiveness , and increased ability to accept large orders without excessive pressure on your cashflow . |
| 2 | Taking money for playing still disqualified a man for the highest honours in amateur eyes , but profiting from sporting fame indirectly through directorships did not . |
| 3 | My plants are strong and healthy , but suffer from Black Algae . |
| 4 | Such measurements distinguish temporal events from spatial structure , but suffer from lower resolution . |
| 5 | According to this formalist approach art aspires to the condition of music , a phrase employed by Pater , but deriving from classical Greece . |
| 6 | The man stands like a kouros , left foot forward , but differs from one not only in the calf and the arms raised to hold it , but in having a beard and a cloak . |
| 7 | This species looks superficially like Amphioplus verrilli but differs from that species by the following characters : the tentacle pores usually have a rounded tentacle scale whereas verrilli has no tentacle scales and the ventral arm plates are flat not ridge as in verrilli . |
| 8 | The [ N ] is not distributed uniformly among the different amino acids , being largely confined to glycine , and the concentration of glycine in the free pool relative to the other amino acids is not only variable , but differs from that in protein . |
| 9 | Fasciculus , from the Burgess Shales and adjacent localities , is an early ctenophore , but differs from extant and Devonian ctenophores in the number of comb-rows . |
| 10 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 11 | For many of the students who took part in them did not have the working-class back- ground traditionally associated with militant anti-Francoism , but came from prosperous , middle-class families which had benefited socially and economically from Francoism . |
| 12 | e , pH o , as in a , but polarizing from +7 to -70mV , in the presence of 100μM L-glutamate or D-aspartate. f , Data in e normalized by the extra uptake currents produced by the +7 to -70mV voltage steps ( 162 and 54pA for L-Glu and D-Asp ) . |
| 13 | We have been able to demonstrate this at Westbury , for the bones from the rodent earth ( unit 15/8 : see Chapter 6 ) , where careful excavation with dental picks revealed complete bones with constituent parts in position but separated from each other by narrow cracks . |
| 14 | Their free range stock is farm bred , but originates from wild animals in Europe . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 17 | Research on the transnational corporations relies on no single methodology but borrows from comparative and cross-cultural research , for which there are long and varying traditions in the social sciences . |
| 18 | The inverted repeats of IS1151 are homologous to the corresponding sequences of the IS231 and IS4 insertion elements but diverge from those of IS186 and of IS421 . |
| 19 | InteWord , the second of the packages sent for inspection , follows the same overall command structure as InteCalc , essential for modular integration , but suffers from many of the same limitations . |
| 20 | Gresham 's made a promising start with contributions from Ivor Crampsie , Alistair Ponder and Hugh Semple but slumped from 131/3 to 169 at the hands of Ashley Cowan ( 4/33 ) and Richard Wilson ( 4/36 ) . |
| 21 | The average population served by a social work team in East Sussex , for example , is 16,000 , but varying from 4,000 to 25,000 . |
| 22 | It is not a Rift Valley Cichlid , but derives from Central Africa , in particular Zaire . |
| 23 | Another patient presented with reaccumulated ascites suggesting poor shunt function but died from massive variceal haemorrhage before further assessment could be performed . |
| 24 | America 's share of external lending has slumped over the past eight years , to 9% , but lending from continental Europe has soared . |
| 25 | Legislation allowed for the establishment of political parties , but prohibited from political activity members of the armed forces and state security services , judges and magistrates , religious figures and foreigners , and stated that no party could be formed on a tribal , regional or provincial basis . |
| 26 | It is now clear that hominoids emerged in East Africa , presumably showing behaviour similar to but diverging from that of other ape-like creatures . |
| 27 | They are corridor carriages , but differ from those of the ‘ West Coast Joint Stock ’ above described in that they are slightly narrower , in order to be of uniform width with the present ordinary rolling stock , their actual body width being eight feet . |
| 28 | The protection patterns on the two strands are identical but offset from each other in the 3'-direction by 3 nucleotides . |
| 29 | But to argue from this that we can divorce the term furnished tenancy or assault from the elements within the bracket is a non sequitur . |
| 30 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |