Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The edges of the solid alder body are smoothly rounded at the front but squared off on the back , with no comfy contouring . |
| 2 | Major Tzann could not help but pick up on the missing contriteness . |
| 3 | He had but to comment favourably on the kittenish qualities of Babs Osborne for her to curl up as best she could on the plush seat beside him , her thumb in her mouth . |
| 4 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 5 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 6 | Flying erase is a system in which the erase heads are located , not in a fixed position , but mounted instead on the rotating head-drum alongside the video heads . |
| 7 | The Tories not only kept batting Labour back and forth between these untenable positions , but played directly on the historic fears of Labour regressing to its old habits . |
| 8 | The Teams can assist groups developing and implementing new ideas which will benefit the area , but depend largely on the initiative and drive of local people . |
| 9 | Lectures make less use of the feed-back function of speech but depend heavily on the speech characteristic of needing less explicitness . |
| 10 | It is worth noting that many of the most interesting studies of the language/ethnicity relationship are not quantitative at all , but focus qualitatively on the social meaning which bi- and multi-lingual speakers associate with the codes in their repertoire ( see further 8.3 ) . |
| 11 | This method at least appears to have some principled rationale underlying it , however , Rosch herself stresses that the basic level is not necessarily fixed ( Rosch , Mervis , Gray , Johnson & Boyes-Braem , 1976 ) , but depends both on the interaction required with the object and the expertise of the observer ( Tanaka & Taylor , 1991 ) . |
| 12 | In response , it is not difficult to produce examples from the practice of science that illustrate the same point , namely , that what observers see , the subjective experiences that they undergo , when viewing an object or scene is not determined solely by the images on their retinas but depends also on the experience , knowledge , expectations and general inner state of the observer . |
| 13 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
| 14 | Not ignoring the bad side , but dwelling positively on the good side . |
| 15 | And when I bribe a willing campesina to buy a train ticket for me — gringo tourists are not supposed to use cheap local transport but to stick together on the ninety dollar tourist train — I shall be continuing a gentle descent into the lushly green Urubamba valley that , eighty kilometres beyond the small town of Aguas Calientes , becomes thick , matted jungle ; becomes a hideout for Sendero . |
| 16 | Many small farmers , of course , did not hire any outside labour but relied entirely on the combined efforts of each member of their family . |
| 17 | In August , Lyell had refused to do so , but Mr Greene says that there is new evidence to suggest that the Commission did not exercise its duties correctly ; The Commissioners seem not to have taken expert advice , as they were bound to do , on the importance of the paintings to the collection , but relied merely on the statements supplied by the College itself . |
| 18 | What we need is Speed and Wallace back and to buy a good striker , White is OK but stuck out on the right wing he wo n't score many goals IMHO . |
| 19 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 20 | The buses crawling through the gates seem empty , but curled up on the seats , on the floor are the recruits , some with plastic bags over their heads , others muffled incognito in scarves . |
| 21 | September 11 : BBMF Hurricane IIC LF363 suffered engine problems en route to Coningsby to Jersey , diverted to RAF Wittering , crash-landed but burnt out on the runway . |
| 22 | Their concerns are not centred on stadiums but focused rather on the off-field , non-political areas such as hotels , communications and domestic travel . |
| 23 | The populist element in the party 's thinking remained , but focused more on the party conference than on the degree of scope to be given to the House of Commons or to local government . |
| 24 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 25 | This approach has the merit of allocating advertising expenditure to specific targets , but relies heavily on the organization 's ability to define its objectives realistically . |
| 26 | but if the elderly pensioner does n't read all the solicitor 's correspondence or the solicitor does n't communicate every fact of the correspondence but relies solely on the brochure they 're carrying in their pocket or their handbag the brochure taken in isolation might mislead might it not ? |
| 27 | The 9 9 m Tc and 1 1 3 m In images were recorded simultaneously , but stored separately on the computer for subsequent analysis . |
| 28 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 29 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
| 30 | During his prosecution by Cicero Verres fled to Marseilles , but appeared again on the proscription list of Mark Antony , compiled in 43 BC , thirty years after Verres ' term of office . |