Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , I am aware of the health risks but believe the choice to smoke is mine , and mine alone . |
| 2 | Companies do the latter not to avoid losses but to spread the impact to match their income , Mr Gluckstern reckoned . |
| 3 | The Institute of Personnel Management says there would be job losses but puts the figure at 100,000 . |
| 4 | The term New Historicism has come in for considerable hostile criticism both from those who claim that there is nothing particularly new about it and among those who admire new historical methods but feel the term incorrectly suggests a unified theoretical field and subsequent critical practice within a body of critical writing in which much contending diversity exists . |
| 5 | McKibbin , in particular , acknowledges the strengths and weaknesses of the new constituency and party organizations but stresses the overall general improvements which were achieved . |
| 6 | A SUSPECTED IRA bomb exploded without warning in the heart of London 's West End yesterday , damaging a block of flats and empty offices but causing no casualties and little disruption . |
| 7 | One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini . |
| 8 | It has been designed to be used by the professionals themselves who do not , said Moore Stephens , have the time or inclination to learn about computers but appreciate the efficiency benefits which technology brings to administration . |
| 9 | She watched the great elms but saw no movement ; they were quiet , now , though around them birds rose in short flight , then settled again . |
| 10 | Thirdly , continuing to use oil fuelled internal combustion engines to drive cars but making the engines more efficient . |
| 11 | Actually he did n't call it a third round , since he did n't solicit new entries but used the same 63 as for Round 2 . |
| 12 | These aforementioned studies were in non-diabetic hypertensive subjects but raised the possibility that similar effects might occur in diabetics . |
| 13 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 14 | Gents match , the Ladies driving from the men 's tees but receiving an extra half stroke benefit ! |
| 15 | However , N-Oct expression is not ubiquitous in all cells of the nervous system ; Schwann cells , the glia cells of the peripheral nervous system , lack N-Oct proteins but contain the Oct-6 protein in addition to the Oct-1 protein [ 35 ] . |
| 16 | He licked his lips but refused the challenge . |
| 17 | The Danish infusion did increase yields but had an adverse effect on food conversion rates , longevity and hardiness so that the experiment waned . |
| 18 | A library is where you go not to look for books but to consult an index or catalogue . |
| 19 | I bought the prescribed or recommended books but had no time to read them . |
| 20 | This method allowed us to generalise the result to all Scottish schools but limited the extent to which we could explore potentially interesting responses . |
| 21 | Table III shows that cisapride further increased the orpoagation velocity of oesophageal contractions but had no significant effect on oesophageal contractility ( slope of the contraction curve ) or on the number of total , propagated , and non-propagatd contractions . |
| 22 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 23 | The youngest children started the most quarrels but took the less aggressive role during the quarrel . |
| 24 | First is a simple reductionist view , which would neglect the way in which culture not only shapes but constitutes the vast mass of human behaviour . |
| 25 | It should be stressed that the samples were not established to enable conclusions to be drawn about particular geographical areas but to examine the different training needs of particular farm and household types while taking account of any important geographical features . |
| 26 | This idea finds an echo in many African countries but assumes a Marxist-Leninist view of the economic and social order found in only a handful of African ruling élites . |
| 27 | The Labour and Socialist International was not prepared to recommend the formation of United Fronts in individual countries but issued the following reply to the Comintern : We feel it to be our duty to call upon the Parties affiliated to the LSI to hold their hands if possible and not to deal with Communist offers of this kind in the individual countries until the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International has defined its attitude towards the new platform of the Comintern . |
| 28 | Far better to use that energy in a positive way by becoming determined not to repeat yesterday 's errors but to use the experience gained to improve the situation and do things better in the future . |
| 29 | If an additive is present in one of the ingredients but serves no real function in the final product , it need not be declared . |
| 30 | The tears welled up in her eyes and trickled into her ears and down her neck ; she heard her own sobs but made no effort to contain them . |