Example sentences of "but they [vb base] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither picture is particularly rigorous but they serve to emphasize the fact that the LCST is an entropically controlled phenomenon . |
| 2 | But they claim to have the support of hundreds of local residents , who they say do n't want the complex sited on common land . |
| 3 | Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season … |
| 4 | Yes I think that probably this had been er very wise in this er in so I 'm not saying that they 've helped us or anything but they 've kept the middle of the line and erm In the beginning when things were beginning to whatsit er the inspector sent two policemen down here and asked me would I ask the lads not to do any damage to property and all this , and that and said , Right there 's a lodge tonight and I shall ask them I shall tell them to do that . |
| 5 | It 's a bit corny , but they 've got the language down pat . |
| 6 | The Scamps have always been Third or Fourth Division , but they 've spread the work in their time and that 's why old Mrs S is now calling in the favours . ’ |
| 7 | An example often quoted is that of Bernard Bloch , who defined the style of a text as " the message carried by the frequency distributions and transitional probabilities of its linguistic features , especially as they differ from those of the same features in the language as a whole Such definitions appeal to the empiricist , who would like to reduce a subjectively perceived phenomenon to something objective , but they tend to alarm the student of literature . |
| 8 | point out quite rightly that the matrix clause " expresses the subject 's preference " here but they fail to see the implications of this for the infinitive . |
| 9 | But they seem to carry the implication that society exists as a fixed structure , with slots into which school-leavers ( or university-leavers ) must be fitted . |
| 10 | But they need to hear the message |
| 11 | Well-known water gardening company Lotus do not sell media separately but they do offer the Bio 500 filter which is loaded with a foam pre-filter and Flocor type media . |
| 12 | They do n't come cheap but they do offer the sort of value , wear , sound and heat insulation and dirt-resistance that you 're going to expect . |
| 13 | But they do blame the Hunt Saboteurs who organised the demonstration in Cambridgeshire and sent a bus to Milton Keynes to pick up young supporters . |
| 14 | ANALYSTS AND THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT Analysts may not view the annual report as the best source of information about a company , but they do prefer the cash flow statement to the funds flow statement |
| 15 | Quantum objects do not act as carriers of classical quantities such as position and momentum ( their wavefunctions are not usually eigenstates of these observables ) but they do carry the potentiality for such quantities ( their wavefunctions are always superpositions of such eigenstates ) . |
| 16 | None of these restrictions inhibit the ability of Commons ' committees to question ministers but they do maintain the curtain surrounding the influence of civil servants . |
| 17 | But they do fear the arsonist will strike again . |
| 18 | Some of the commercially available plastic sunflower-seed feeders look as if they have been designed by someone made redundant from the spaceship industry , but they do keep the seed dry and let you see when to refill . |
| 19 | But they do value the report as a reference document . |
| 20 | The experiments reviewed in this section do little to advance out understanding of the mechanisms involved ( often important control conditions are lacking ) but they do allow the conclusion that there is no fundamental difference between the so-called perceptual and motor test tasks in their susceptibility to acquired equivalence/distinctiveness effects . |
| 21 | Many plotless or so-called abstract ballets , by choreographers such as Balanchine , have no specific characters or climaxes but they do follow the composer 's score very closely . |
| 22 | But they do see the problem as a political one . |
| 23 | But they refuse to follow the flock in calling for the return of the death penalty and reject the idea that the killers on the street , the people with the knives , are inherently evil . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , but they have barred the door . ’ |
| 25 | In the United Kingdom courts have refused to adjudicate upon the validity of Acts of Parliament , but they have developed the doctrine of judicial review by which the exercise of power by other authorities may be reviewed in the courts . |
| 26 | They may talk an alien language of picas and points , separations and screens but they have accumulated the knowledge of several centuries . |
| 27 | But they have asked the board of directors to review the conditions of demotion and promotion from the eventual Second Division and Alliance League . |
| 28 | In the event , some of the consequences of the solution have proved as irksome as the problem , but they have done the trick . |
| 29 | But they have dreaded the day terrorism would strike . |
| 30 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |