Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They use their criticism not to refine plans for change but to block them . |
| 2 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 3 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 4 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 5 | Concertina invitations If your child has a favourite animal or activity , cut the card into shape but make it concertina fashion and place the different questions on the invitation in separate places . |
| 6 | She certainly would n't say boo to Rodney but get her out from under his shadow and she 's got plenty of … character . ’ |
| 7 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 8 | Thus the ‘ qualities ’ covered a wider range of sports but gave them proportionately much less space overall than the populars . |
| 9 | He said he was impressed by the range of stands but wished he was ten years younger because he thought the help on offer was best for younger people . |
| 10 | Middlesex dropped Ramprakash for the next championship match against Hampshire at Southampton but recalled him yesterday for their game against Sussex at Hove . |
| 11 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 12 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 13 | Hana looked at her husband with pride but wished he had cleaned his boots better . |
| 14 | Borland refused to disclose international sales figures for InterBase but said it hoped to double what it claims is a 3.6% per cent share of the Unix database market in Europe over the next year . |
| 15 | The Evershed Committee in 1953 considered the introduction of such procedures in the Court of Appeal but rejected them . |
| 16 | They did not engage in an abstruse discussion of the technicalities of Trinitarianism but saw it as a paradigm of the religious experience of God . |
| 17 | The liquidators won an £11.7m judgment against companies owned by disgraced City financier Jim Raper in the Manx court on Monday but said they were not expecting to see any of this . |
| 18 | ‘ No , I too noted the King 's change in mood but dismissed it for King Alexander was an excitable , changeable man . |
| 19 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 20 | A purpose of Clarkson 's History was thus not only to delineate a common pattern of consciousness but to promote it as a contribution to energising the internal networks of antislavery for future struggles . |
| 21 | Who should their legislature not forbid racial discrimination on buses but permit it in restaurants ? |
| 22 | David Quelch of Buntingford , Herefordshire , admitted using the device to remove fish at a pit in Haddenham , Cambridgeshire without consent but claimed he was carrying out a health check on behalf of the owners . |
| 23 | Also on July 19 Adriaan Vlok , then Minister of Law and Order , admitted that the police had provided covert funding to Inkatha but described it as " non-political " . |
| 24 | Light is cast on the customs of contemporary devotion by the instruction not " climb up to the cross " to kiss Christ 's feet in tears of penitence but to do it in his heart . |
| 25 | The previous two aspects are clearly the main thrusts of RMI but combining them together successfully and reducing negative fall-out within the organisation is , in effect , the third aspect , that of managing the cultural change that new systems will inevitably produce . |
| 26 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 27 | In 1838 , he was offered a knighthood for his achievements in commerce but refused it , the second of old John Tennant 's sons to have done so . |
| 28 | Herr Nordern raised his hand in protest but let it fall again . |
| 29 | It was quite a new idea over here , you did n't do your washing at home but brought it out to these machines , and the courteous manager greeted you and put in the soap powder for you , and had the clothes all ready for you when you came back , but was n't alas , as it turned out , much of a hand at doing the accounts . |
| 30 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |