Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This means that you will no longer need to offer cash discounts for early payment , but gain from increased flexibility in offering credit terms to improve your competitiveness , and increased ability to accept large orders without excessive pressure on your cashflow . |
| 3 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher agreed to allow the Report to be sent out for consultation , but asked for one alteration . |
| 5 | A rhetorical question , but asked with deep feeling . |
| 6 | There are many reasons for this , outlined here , but given in greater detail elsewhere ( Illich , 1977 ; Thunhurst , 1982 ; Doyle , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | The FT-SE 100 share index was down 42 points at one stage but recovered in later trading to end the day down 30.5 points at 2,281.6 . |
| 8 | A straw poll by The Bookseller last week revealed that Octopus , Bloomsbury and Macmillan were among publishers who closed for Christmas but reopened before New Year , and that publishers taking a 10 day break — closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on 4th January — included HarperCollins , Transworld , OUP , CUP , Orion and Dorling Kindersley . |
| 9 | Taking money for playing still disqualified a man for the highest honours in amateur eyes , but profiting from sporting fame indirectly through directorships did not . |
| 10 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 11 | Such measurements distinguish temporal events from spatial structure , but suffer from lower resolution . |
| 12 | I believe if a player is down as a defender but plays in another position . |
| 13 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 14 | Certainly by the year 2000 BC , the tables of the Cretan rulers shone and glittered with drinking cups of gold and silver and , even in the century before the first temples were raised , those rulers were wearing elegant gold ornaments , not imported , but produced by Minoan craft workers . |
| 15 | Crews from all over the world were competing at Henley this weekend … for women rowers this is the big event of the year … but times are a changing … there 'll be a women 's single sculls at this years main Henley Regatta … they 've been there before in invitation races or coxing in men 's crews but competing in international competition is quite a breakthrough |
| 16 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 17 | This ruling mirrored the previous one but applied to occupational pension schemes as opposed to the then state retirement ages . |
| 18 | Cut 4cm ( 1½inches ) off the ends of two of the rectangular cakes and sandwich all four cakes together with some of the buttercream , the shorter ones on top , centred widthways but aligned at one end . |
| 19 | In 1976 , the centenary of the event , Mr Alan Spedding , the present organist and choir master , thought it might be time to call a halt but met with such opposition from the townspeople that it was decided to carry on . |
| 20 | Some lawyers in the Soviet Union advocated the adoption of the Western principle that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty , but met with little success until the Gorbachev period . |
| 21 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 22 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 23 | To eliminate multiple aircraft flights on the heavier routes FEC applied to the CAB to operate DC-9-15s , but met with tremendous opposition and their application was rejected . |
| 24 | The use of skeleton arguments has been popular with the Court of Appeal , but met with some resistance from some members of the Bar ( Blom-Cooper , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 26 | THE assumption that information is stored in the brain as changes in synaptic efficiency emerged about a century ago following the demonstration by Cajal that networks of neurons are not in cytoplasmic continuity but communicate with each other at the specialized junctions which Sherrington called synapses . |
| 27 | ‘ Children in heaven do not advance beyond early manhood , but remain in that state of eternity ’ |
| 28 | These rules were modified by reform Judaism in modern times and , to a lesser extent , by conservative Judaism , but remain in full force for the orthodox , the group that predominates as the only legitimate expression of Judaism in the present State of Israel . |
| 29 | In 1985 , they " woke up " and sued for possession but failed at first instance . |
| 30 | The oxlip , P. elatior , is a rare , shade-loving , species with flowers like a primrose in size and colour , but hanging to one side at the top of a tall stem . |