Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the house-builder , Trencherwood , lost 0.5p to 7p after cutting heavy losses but again failing to pay a dividend to shareholders . |
| 2 | Deep tan , good body , jeans that were tight and bleached over the thighs but not looking like they were sprayed on . |
| 3 | I mean old erm does his bit crossing and splitting defences and getting goals but not scoring them . |
| 4 | Around the towns , but more particularly the small rural communities in Sussex , the Saxon monarchs built a careful legal and local government structure , reinforcing the social hierarchies but carefully giving each man rights and dues according to his place . |
| 5 | Burnard goes on to mention some of the skills involved : the ability to listen ( to the words but also noting volume , pitch , eye movements and related body language ) ; ability to offer free attention ( to note and accept , not analyse and interpret ) ; to suspend judgement ( to refrain from categorising as good/bad , right/wrong ) ; and to control what is said in reply and how it is said , with a facial expression which is genuine , not mechanical . |
| 6 | Be before you were chosen by whatever process a number of us was asked to comment and one of the things I felt it important to say was that the URC plays a very important role both in being a bridge between all these nations but also serving a particular reform tradition within Wales . |
| 7 | His score is also notable for its choruses , particularly double choruses , which are accompanied — in contrast to the merely continuo supported solos — by the orchestra ( three violins and continuo for harpsichords , which are usually joined by arpe , liuti , tiorbe e violoni ) , not merely doubling the voices but sometimes playing independently : This orchestra is also employed in three unusually extended sinfonie to the Prologue and Second and Third Acts , that to the prologue consisting of 11 ( slow ) bars in quadruple time , a canzone of 32 bars with echo-effects of forte and piano emphasized by the scoring : 7 bars in triple time , and 21 in quadruple . |
| 8 | Elements which can all appear at the same position within a document are regarded as forming a model class : for example , the class phrase includes all elements which can appear within paragraphs but not spanning them , while the class chunk includes all elements which can not appear within paragraphs ( such as paragraphs , for example ) . |
| 9 | The vendor will also be required to answer a detailed questionnaire covering not only the vendor 's knowledge of claims under the warranties but also explaining the nature of the transaction , the sale price and the basis on which the sale price has been calculated . |
| 10 | At midlife many people are not only facing the death of parents but also coping with difficult teenagers . |
| 11 | The continued armed presence of Palestinians , defending the camp areas but also renewing their attacks on Israel 's northern border , destroyed much of the remaining solidarity offered by the Sunni Muslim and Druze communities . |
| 12 | It 's like trying to turn beef steak rawk into a New Age lentilburger , not by changing the ingredients but simply enveloping it all in a laser-fried wholemeal bun and hoping that nobody will notice the difference . |
| 13 | The pent-up energy of religious orders and craftsmen was soon channelled into new convents and pilgrimage churches , initially indebted to Italian models but gradually evolving away from them . |
| 14 | Alternatively the Goblin might survive the impact and bounce around two or three times , possibly breaking a few bones but definitely causing considerable damage to the enemy he lands on . |
| 15 | Masefield 's extreme selectiveness in the choice of words turns description into its own form of narrative , reflecting the responses of the characters to immediate circumstances but also giving individual life to those circumstances . |
| 16 | policy spokesmen — concerned with broad policy matters but also seeing themselves as delegates . |
| 17 | Of ancient multiple units that keep going well beyond their years , the bane of commuters but still offering forward views of stunning coastal and moorland scenery . |
| 18 | We 've been in flowers most of our lives but not demonstrating , which we 're finding a bit , a little bit er different . |
| 19 | Jez Hall 's tenor sax sound is lighter and warmer than Bobby 's providing just enough contrast in their many solos but also doubling mellower than before but still with a crying , keening sounding that taps enormous depths of feeling . |
| 20 | The minority , in particular the 1540s , also produced a concentration of the more ‘ normal ’ bonds by the magnates , hitherto made for local purposes but now reflecting the need for support in a major political crisis . |
| 21 | Answering phones and taking messages but not responding to queries |
| 22 | Aunt Tossie , Mrs Florence Fox-Collier , was Maman 's ( Lady Forester 's ) elder and widowed sister — widowed for two years but still wearing full mourning regalia . |
| 23 | Kuhn 's paradigms are not only intellectual frameworks but also accompanying institutional practices . |
| 24 | Instead he led an increasingly wild campaign , always hinting at treason in high places but never proving it . |
| 25 | The theory of representative government clearly requires that they be called the servants of the minister , providing information and evidence on policy alternatives but not taking policy decisions . |
| 26 | The defense of conventionalism we have now constructed has two parts : first , that wise adjudication consists in finding the right balance between predictability and flexibility and , second , that the right balance is secured by judges always respecting past explicit decisions of political institutions but not enforcing decisions by default in the way unilateralism does . |
| 27 | How many Welsh coaches , for example , see their role as not only achieving success for their clubs but also furnishing players of quality for the new multiplicity of Welsh squads ? |
| 28 | Both in terms of er bringing forward more detailed criteria based policies but also determining specifically the areas to which the policy would apply . |
| 29 | On follow-up , when these subjects were sleeping only 6 hours but not feeling sleepy any more during the day , the proportions of sleep stages were no different from the period in the experiment when they were being restricted to 6 hours ' sleep ( when this restriction did mace them feel sleepy ) . |
| 30 | They cover not only the lifting of loads but also lowering , pushing , pulling , carrying or moving them , whether by hand or other bodily force . |