Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The edges of the solid alder body are smoothly rounded at the front but squared off on the back , with no comfy contouring . |
| 2 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 3 | The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people . |
| 4 | Lectures make less use of the feed-back function of speech but depend heavily on the speech characteristic of needing less explicitness . |
| 5 | This method at least appears to have some principled rationale underlying it , however , Rosch herself stresses that the basic level is not necessarily fixed ( Rosch , Mervis , Gray , Johnson & Boyes-Braem , 1976 ) , but depends both on the interaction required with the object and the expertise of the observer ( Tanaka & Taylor , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | In response , it is not difficult to produce examples from the practice of science that illustrate the same point , namely , that what observers see , the subjective experiences that they undergo , when viewing an object or scene is not determined solely by the images on their retinas but depends also on the experience , knowledge , expectations and general inner state of the observer . |
| 7 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
| 8 | In August , Lyell had refused to do so , but Mr Greene says that there is new evidence to suggest that the Commission did not exercise its duties correctly ; The Commissioners seem not to have taken expert advice , as they were bound to do , on the importance of the paintings to the collection , but relied merely on the statements supplied by the College itself . |
| 9 | The buses crawling through the gates seem empty , but curled up on the seats , on the floor are the recruits , some with plastic bags over their heads , others muffled incognito in scarves . |
| 10 | September 11 : BBMF Hurricane IIC LF363 suffered engine problems en route to Coningsby to Jersey , diverted to RAF Wittering , crash-landed but burnt out on the runway . |
| 11 | Their concerns are not centred on stadiums but focused rather on the off-field , non-political areas such as hotels , communications and domestic travel . |
| 12 | The populist element in the party 's thinking remained , but focused more on the party conference than on the degree of scope to be given to the House of Commons or to local government . |
| 13 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 14 | This approach has the merit of allocating advertising expenditure to specific targets , but relies heavily on the organization 's ability to define its objectives realistically . |
| 15 | but if the elderly pensioner does n't read all the solicitor 's correspondence or the solicitor does n't communicate every fact of the correspondence but relies solely on the brochure they 're carrying in their pocket or their handbag the brochure taken in isolation might mislead might it not ? |
| 16 | The 9 9 m Tc and 1 1 3 m In images were recorded simultaneously , but stored separately on the computer for subsequent analysis . |
| 17 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 18 | During his prosecution by Cicero Verres fled to Marseilles , but appeared again on the proscription list of Mark Antony , compiled in 43 BC , thirty years after Verres ' term of office . |
| 19 | He then attended the Crypt School in Gloucester , but left early on the day he died , cancelling a tennis lesson . |
| 20 | ‘ It began with striking his spurs off for disobedience , but ended more on the lines of he could stay and rot for two weeks for all Zacco cared . |
| 21 | The nut was not , however , found in situ , but washed up on the loch shore . |
| 22 | Manchester United went on to lift the trophy , but missed out on the Championship , while losers Boro followed up by clinching promotion . |
| 23 | The successful artiste is neither timorous nor tremulous but leaps around on the high-wire glittering with outrageous élan and gathering applause . |