Example sentences of "but do [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And from that centre of chivalry , the Burgundian court , came the nobleman Jacques de Lalain in 1448 , to challenge James , brother of William earl of Douglas , ‘ neither for hatred nor envy nor any evil wish whatsoever , but to do the greatest honour in his power to one who came of such high descent , and was besides of such great renown and courage , that he desired his acquaintance more than that of any lord in the said kingdom of Scotland ’ . |
| 2 | ( 14 December 1774 ) Plans for the performance went well , but to do the work justice , the date of the first performance was delayed , |
| 3 | It may have been relatively easy for a large part of the workforce to switch from manufacturing to service industries in the 1980s , but to do the opposite is more difficult . |
| 4 | But to do the miller justice he could with almost equal truth reply : ‘ Yes , maybe . |
| 5 | By now it had become clear that the way to approach the show would be to do the linking material as near to Joyce 's as I could , but to do the sketches very much more as I would approach them as an actress . |
| 6 | Richards insisted he was not pressurizing the umpire but doing a celebratory dance , which seemed odd since as the umpire had not raised a finger at the time he had nothing to celebrate . |
| 7 | But doing the publicity for his new film , The Freshman , a sweetly off-beat little comedy in which he plays Clark Kellog , an innocent film student drawn into an impenetrable plot involving rare animals and gangster gourmets , Matthew Broderick is n't allowed even this consolation . |
| 8 | But doing the whole thing — removing daytime clothes , putting on special sleeping garments , emptying the bladder , cleaning the teeth and finally getting into the purpose-built sleeping furniture — is something that is only done in the bedrooms specially built for the purpose . |
| 9 | Exhibitors also complain they have to put up with the theft of their merchandise , and suspect their bills are inflated by ‘ ghost ’ workers , who are paid but do no work . |
| 10 | Ant colonies often entertain a variety of parasitic arthropods such as beetles and mites , and some that are merely commensal ; that is they merely co-habit with the ants , and thereby perhaps gain protection , or scavenge for scrap food , but do no obvious harm . |
| 11 | So feel with the same intensity but do the contrary . ’ |
| 12 | But do the follicles actually contain eggs ? |
| 13 | But do the movements ‘ convey information ’ to fellow workers in the hive in any more semantic a fashion than , say , a bruise on a child 's face conveys to his mother the information that he has had a nasty bump ? |
| 14 | But do the minnow eggs also benefit from the male perch 's fanning of the nest ? |
| 15 | We ca n't hope for anyone with Alison 's exact measurements , but do the best you can . ’ |
| 16 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) said , some supervised car projects may be an effective alternative to custody ; but do the Government give the probation service the resources that it needs to run such projects ? |
| 17 | I mean there there are some dis-benefits but do the benefits that arise from an inner route , outweigh those dis-benefits . |
| 18 | But do the public have their sights set on an Urbanizer ? |
| 19 | No he said do n't give them in yet , but do the informal first , so I 'll do the informal , we 've got to do an informal |
| 20 | It was not large but did a fairish trade . |
| 21 | In the 1988 regional elections , the local Green Party not only hand-delivered leaflets , but did a complete canvass , patiently discussing and listening wherever people wanted to talk . |
| 22 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 23 | Children were not only frequently abused but did a fair bit of abusing themselves . |
| 24 | Andy Nicol and Derek Turnbull , who met the party in Sydney , took part in the training , but did a minimum of work because of jet lag . |
| 25 | Suddenly a salvo arrived but did no damage . |
| 26 | But did the administration misjudge Iraq 's military power of resistance ? |
| 27 | But did the working class accept their continued relatively poor conditions without demur . |
| 28 | But did the women really feel that their own work had been less important ? |
| 29 | But did the concept of citizenship really strike to the very vitals of Britain 's political parties ? |
| 30 | But did the two ever meet ? |