Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [verb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl called Maggie had no alternative but to sit in a chair close to Eileen . |
| 2 | However , O. cordifera appears to be a valid species which can distinguish from O. clavigera by the following characters : the shape of oral shield which is rounded slightly irregular in O. clavigera but pentagonal to rhombic often with an acute proximal angle in O. cordifera , the adoral shields are not separated as in O. clavigera but meet in the midline , proximal to the oral shield in O. cordifera and the larger size of the granules of the disk in O. cordifera . |
| 3 | Allen had no home but slept in the church porch and earned his keep in any way he could and scavenged and begged when that was the only way to stay alive . |
| 4 | Alzheimer patients may never present to medical attention but die in the community either undiagnosed or cared for by relatives who have never sought medical investigation . |
| 5 | He did not go any further into the room but stood in the door keeping a watchful eye on Evans . |
| 6 | Dress not only covers and decorates the body but instils in the wearer its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses . |
| 7 | The early factories depended on water power ; in 1716 John Lombe built a silk mill in Derbyshire , recognizably an industrial building but situated in the country . |
| 8 | Frau Nordern glanced at her watch but seemed in no hurry to move . |
| 9 | Isabella and Mortimer could scarcely hope to survive long in power : neither had a claim to the throne but ruled in the name of Edward III ; their authority was thus precarious and , given that Edward was in the Plantagenet mould , destined to early extinction . |
| 10 | That Christmas we spent in Wales working in the melin by day but sleeping in the cottage , as it was still furnished . |
| 11 | O. metallacta bears a close resemblance to O. notata but differs in the shape of the oral and adoral shield ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 13 | Reformulating Saussure , Jakobson had pointed out earlier ( Jakobson 1956 : 55ff ) that every linguistic message is the product of a double process : ( 1 ) the act of selection among items not present in the message but associated in the code ( i.e. in the langue or language system ) , and ( 2 ) the combination of the items selected into a sequence . |
| 14 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 15 | Nehru and the rest had no choice but to join in the general rejoicing . |
| 16 | What he liked was order , which armies embody in peacetime but abandon in the field . |
| 17 | She did not keep in the background but sat in the gallery every day with her poodle . |
| 18 | We need not wait for evil to swoop out of the cosmos or ascend from the depths of hell : it is here now , not incarnate in human form but embodied in the structures and philosophies of our modern culture.l It is this contemporary culture with which we must grapple and fight . |
| 19 | They steal a schooner and embark on a voyage through the Caribbean and along the Central American coast , terrified of retribution but indulging in the comfort of increasingly fantastic plans for a luxurious future . |
| 20 | Commenting upon the teaching of reading the report takes teachers to task for effectively teaching the mechanics of reading but failing in the process to help children recognise that reading was ‘ something that people did for pleasure , . |
| 21 | Well I think you should join up because something 's put in the middle but depends in a game If I was playing against a level player you might just have a very hard crack together , but just to join up gently in the middle . |
| 22 | And I get bored with nothing to do on holiday but lie in the sun . ’ |
| 23 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 24 | ‘ They know they have no option but to stay in the job and try and do better , but the harsh truth is that those who have high production costs and low productivity will not survive the next three or four years of rapid transition . ’ |
| 25 | In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists . |