Example sentences of "[verb] but [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance of his gearless pedestal has not yet been fully realised but it so influenced engineer 's thinking that solar powered lights are feasible even in the higher ranges . |
| 2 | The contradictions remain but they only become tension and conflict when we are under pressure to perform more than one role at a time . |
| 3 | When establishing the Editing Commissions responsible for drawing up the Statute of 1861 , the Tsar had recognized the need to appoint men who not only could cope with the intricacies of the legislation involved but who positively favoured Emancipation , who were convinced in their hearts as well as their heads of its desirability . |
| 4 | He was driven by a devil that he never knew but he never stopped fighting , a maker of his own myths , Celtic , Faustian , an Icarus and a Don Juan , coming out from his beloved Wales like a mystical warrior to rove the world for conquests , forever unsettled , forever daring . |
| 5 | Not that I mind but it just means things like painting and decorating what you looking |
| 6 | And Carol liked to come through and just tinker but she never got lessons or anything so we just sold it . |
| 7 | I do n't think that 's going to happen but he desperately needs finance from Europe . |
| 8 | She ran off screaming but she never pulled faces at us again if Dad was around . |
| 9 | All the experiments discussed so far have made use of a two-stage procedure — an initial phase of discrimination training intended to render the cues distinctive , followed by a test in which the nature of the task is changed but which still requires discrimination between these same cues . |