Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is a distinctive signal which ensures that the parents do not eat the piglets but treat them with the restraint and solicitude due to babies . |
| 2 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 3 | The judges in that case recognised that decisions of the stewards might affect the public but concluded they were not decisions in the sphere of public law . |
| 4 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 5 | Liquids on the other hand flow if subjected to a stress ; they do not store the energy but dissipate it almost entirely as heat and thus possess high damping characteristics . |
| 6 | Most horsemen in Suffolk did not powder the bone but used it whole and also as a device to jade and not to draw the horse . |
| 7 | Peter Davies , Eastbourne 's captain , told his players on the eve of the event that they were stroking the ball well and that they could upset the odds but added he was booking them out of their hotel . |
| 8 | Roberts ' solicitor , John Grey-Lloyd , did not oppose the application but said he reserved the right to apply for bail at the next hearing . |
| 9 | But if she persists in what she is saying about him now , he will have no choice but to insist she goes . |
| 10 | If people refuse to move ( despite inducements ) the employer may have no option but to dismiss them . |
| 11 | ‘ He will have no option but to meet them , man . |
| 12 | But when such practices occur elsewhere in the world , he feels , UK companies might have no option but to accept it and adjust . |
| 13 | If they are the only witness to deal with a vital issue then you will have no alternative but to call them . |
| 14 | He could repair the craft but said he was unwilling to do so . |
| 15 | Sweet little dairy-maid who 'd enchant the customers but give them all the wrong change ? |
| 16 | We certainly do n't regret the move but wish we 'd known how much work and cost would be involved . |
| 17 | The supremacy of the poetic function over the referential function does not obliterate the message but makes it ambiguous … ’ ( pp. 370 — 1 ) . |
| 18 | They did not say a word but looked me up and down . |