Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But luckily help was at hand in the person of Anna-Lisa Hammer , a blonde , Norwegian freelance journalist who was also the Press Officer for the Bislet Games in Oslo . |
| 2 | My Bloody Valentine and Blur got stranded at the airport , but thankfully CURVE and SPIRITUALIZED were on hand to step in … |
| 3 | It was a small but clear sign that the western democracies wished to extend an olive branch to Franco , made clearer by the fact that Britain and the United States had voted in favour . |
| 4 | And increasingly complaints from businesses , complaints about unfair competition , erm the second point is that the , the report has been sent to vote upon now , but also to a number of er business and consumer organisations in the county a range of views is being expressed in response , as you 'd expect , but in general terms most recognised there are particular trading , trend and pattern which needs to be addressed erm but most have all especially with the er display of this same as registration some form of registration must on the national basis would be erm a , a solution to this support . |
| 5 | What is bound to come to mind at this point is that there are pairs of things distinct from , but fundamentally like , a causal circumstance and its effect . |
| 6 | But since work for the TVEI starts at the age of 14 , two years before the GCSE is to be taken , it is not clear how that examination will fit in ; for it is not yet certain how much vocationalism can be accommodated within the GCSE itself . |
| 7 | For some calls they wear plain clothes , but mostly work is done in uniform , as it must be if neighbourhood policing is to work . |
| 8 | These presentings and mountings , although sexual expressions , are not overt sexual acts but rather reflect the relative dominance and submission of the two . |
| 9 | Apparently insoluble dilemmas within philosophy are not the product of the immanent structure of the human mind and/or nature but rather reflect distorted or frozen social relations . |
| 10 | Both types of explanation are rejected as inadequate by the sociologist : the individualistic because it does not recognise the importance of wider social forces acting on the individual which he or she can not control ; the naturalistic because it fails to recognise that behaviour patterns are not primarily biologically determined but rather reflect social conventions that have been learned by individuals as members of social groups or , more generally , society . |
| 11 | Such diverse construction methods are not confined to particular types of building but rather reflect questions of cost and regional traditions which appear to have been relatively pronounced in Roman Britain . |
| 12 | For an informal dinner party , do n't hide your guests from one another with a giant display but rather use a series of small containers grouped to suit your table shape . |
| 13 | You must not let them level down the University , but rather use your position to level them up . ’ |
| 14 | Paint , however , should always be washable — do not use emulsion because you will not bc able to wash grease and smoke off easily , but rather use gloss or eggshell finishes . |
| 15 | There is evidence , however , to show that these differences in school attainment at age 7 do not decrease , but rather increase as children get older . |
| 16 | ( Hence when the evangelist has the women discover the empty tomb , he does not have them witness to the resurrection but rather go and tell the men . ) |
| 17 | The " ontological " version , as we saw , involves an assumption that existential propositions , in the final analysis , can be reproduced in terms of propositions that do not explicitly assert but rather presuppose the existence of certain ontological objects . |
| 18 | Do n't encourage this , but rather help him by summarising and re-phrasing his contribution in a gentle and inoffensive way . |
| 19 | If ratings are good at picking out enduring themes , while detailed observations are indispensable to explanations of how these themes arise , then the best analytical method should not choose between splitting and lumping but rather combine them . |
| 20 | To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth . |
| 21 | Gases do not have their own shape but rather expand to fill the shapes of their containers uniformly . |
| 22 | ‘ Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them . ’ |
| 23 | Now the structures of practices are not always the same , but rather depend upon the various elements of the production processes they contain . |
| 24 | ( ii ) It is probably clear to the reader that , although we are trying to work formally and to assume nothing other than that given , we do not choose our definitions of unc and unc in a perfectly random fashion , but rather make them reflect what we want to happen . |
| 25 | So sometimes they-will not carry-out the work themselves , but rather drive the car to a specialist centre and charge for the time . |
| 26 | The data capture movements of relative prices and incomes which may have little to do with the effect of economic integration upon trade , but rather follow from changes in policies or other factors . |
| 27 | Grice suggests that the maxims are in fact not arbitrary conventions , but rather describe rational means for conducting cooperative exchanges . |
| 28 | Speaking from the society 's headquarters in Edinburgh , superintendent Ron Grant — a former shepherd — summed the situation up : ‘ It 's been one of the worst winters in the west Highlands for many years and for once it 's not been snow but rather rain which has caused the problems . |
| 29 | Certainly if you have to create anything other than mild pain in order to stop your thoughts you must not continue but rather find an alternative technique of distraction . |
| 30 | Group leaders are not ‘ mission-committed ’ to the group 's success , but rather want to maximize membership and the achievement of collective benefits for members because it expands their own patronage , power and prestige . |