Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 2 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 3 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 4 | Flying erase is a system in which the erase heads are located , not in a fixed position , but mounted instead on the rotating head-drum alongside the video heads . |
| 5 | The Tories not only kept batting Labour back and forth between these untenable positions , but played directly on the historic fears of Labour regressing to its old habits . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that many of the most interesting studies of the language/ethnicity relationship are not quantitative at all , but focus qualitatively on the social meaning which bi- and multi-lingual speakers associate with the codes in their repertoire ( see further 8.3 ) . |
| 7 | Not ignoring the bad side , but dwelling positively on the good side . |
| 8 | Many small farmers , of course , did not hire any outside labour but relied entirely on the combined efforts of each member of their family . |
| 9 | What we need is Speed and Wallace back and to buy a good striker , White is OK but stuck out on the right wing he wo n't score many goals IMHO . |
| 10 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 11 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
| 12 | From that standpoint he looks at world development , taking into account the technical problems but concentrating mainly on the moral issues involved . |