Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research on the transnational corporations relies on no single methodology but borrows from comparative and cross-cultural research , for which there are long and varying traditions in the social sciences . |
| 2 | What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues . |
| 3 | The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution . |
| 4 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 5 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 6 | For example , the defendant may argue that the injury was not inflicted with intent to have intercourse but occurred after consensual intercourse or was inflicted during a quarrel , after which there was a reconciliation and consensual sexual intercourse took place . |
| 7 | ‘ Way you go , Patty , ’ he said softly , and the dog was off , hurling herself along the embankment , all paws and flying ears , after a rabbit who had been sitting in a patch of sun but disappeared with contemptuous ease as she came close . |
| 8 | They 've all read the Magpie column but arrive at differing conclusions . |
| 9 | Although the three individual defendants had either signed or had been made aware of undertakings of confidentiality when they entered the employment of the plaintiff , counsel on behalf of the plaintiffs did not rely upon such undertakings before the judge but relied upon general implied principles of law in this area . |
| 10 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 11 | The foreign secretaries of the two countries did not deal with the political issues in the Kashmir crisis but focused on military confidence-building measures . |
| 12 | She was flown to hospital by helicopter in a coma but died of multiple skull fractures . |
| 13 | A strength that was not of her body but rooted in absolute desperation got her to her feet rising with the urchins still clinging to her and then shaking them off like the she-bears , once chained in this square for sport , had shaken off the baiting dogs . |
| 14 | The new test replaces the usability test with an acceptability one which makes clear that breaches will not be confined to those which impair the use or function of the product but extend to other factors that a reasonable person would take into account . |
| 15 | Two senior Chilean intelligence officers of the Pinochet regime , Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras of the DINA secret police and Lt. Col. Pedro Espinosa , had also been indicted in the case but remained at large in Chile [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36931 ] . |
| 16 | The buyer did not repudiate the contract but pressed for early delivery . |
| 17 | A New Forum weekly newspaper , Die Andere ( " The Other One " ) , was first published in late January 1990 with West German funding but folded in early March . |
| 18 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 19 | Another patient presented with reaccumulated ascites suggesting poor shunt function but died from massive variceal haemorrhage before further assessment could be performed . |
| 20 | And Queen 's hope that they will be joined by other top quality players who are currently studying at the university but play with other club sides . |
| 21 | I craved liquor but survived on frequent tureens of white wine . |
| 22 | The glen is threaded by the River Nevis , rather sedate in maturity but dancing with fun and high spirits in infancy . |
| 23 | Even more controversially , the APA wants changes in how violent offenders , who have been acquitted in court but committed to mental institutions , are assessed . |
| 24 | 1–9 Great preparations had been made for observing the total eclipse of the moon but owing to thick cloud only the last of it was seen . |
| 25 | They do not act in the full light of day but deal in subtle trickery , clever fetches , secret assassinations , and every filthy trick of the devil . |
| 26 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 27 | Where Mallet began in agreement with Blauner but came to different conclusions , Naville starts from a quite different position , arguing that work itself , under automated technology , is inherently unsatisfying . |
| 28 | On the back , quite without superficial decoration , the artist has concentrated on revealing the forms of the body , not adapted to a linear pattern but swelling in majestic simplicity under the smooth cloak which originally veiled the hair and falls almost to the ankles , held in the right hand and brought round under the left elbow to be tucked into the belt in front . |
| 29 | They included , in addition to the extensive programme at the Primary Schools Centre : programmed school-based INSET ; INSET supported by the Authority but provided by external agents ; INSET related to school reviews ; and the expanding school-led INSET initiative . |
| 30 | In a veiled warning to Turkey , President Boris Yeltsin of Russia dispatched his State Secretary Gennady Burbulis and Defence Minister Gen. Pavel Grachev to Armenia for talks on the future role of the 7th Army , now under exclusive Russian control but stationed on Armenian territory . |