Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to keep doing what one enjoyed doing as a child but adapting it to the changing circumstances . |
| 2 | He also includes all the posthumous items in his Etudes symphoniques , scattering them freely through the text but playing them with such improvisatory magic that all sense of interruption or slackened structure is virtually erased . |
| 3 | The Act enabled local authorities to create and administer country parks and picnic sites , thereby expanding choice but directing it towards specially planned recreational reservations . |
| 4 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 5 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 6 | After emancipation the state could transform recruitment by enlisting more people each year but putting them on the reserve list much sooner . |