Example sentences of "but they [vb base] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they embrace the worldliness and materialism of advanced industrialism and even declare it good ! |
| 2 | The insurance companies anticipate maintaining the premium rates at current levels but they retain the right to review them from time to time , subject to giving each insured person 60 days notice of any change . |
| 3 | The Insurance Companies anticipate maintaining the premium rates at current levels but they retain the right to review them from time to time , subject to giving each insured person 60 days notice of any change . |
| 4 | Within a fully developed multicellular organism , most cells are non-dividing ( G0 phase of the cell cycle ) , but they retain the option of returning to the cell cycle usually when activated by growth factors . |
| 5 | Preteceille and Terrail ( 1985 ) provide a recent elaboration of this position , taking into account the various approaches emerging from cultural anthropology , but they retain the classic Marxist conception that modern ‘ needs ’ can only be accounted for in terms of the search by capital for greater profits , and that consumption is always subservient to production interests ( e.g. 1985 : 37–81 ) . |
| 6 | Some of the recently introduced products , Itek 's PTW for example , do include full WYSIWYG and are menu rather than command driven but they sacrifice the raw power of products like TeX ( pronounced tech ) or JustText . |
| 7 | Generally chilly and cold but they desire the cold . |
| 8 | " I would have done , " said Clara , " but they shut the doors at eleven . " |
| 9 | Creole and Cajun cooking are broadly French-based , but they reflect the great American ability to assimilate other cultures , turning them into something uniquely their own . |
| 10 | They can , of course , cease payment at any time , but they break the contract and forgo virtually all the benefits since very little compensation is usually available for the premiums which have already been paid . |
| 11 | " You call them law , but they break the law ! " |
| 12 | But they insist the legislation is being routinely breached . |
| 13 | The mines inspectorate have admitted to Public Eye , the roof bolting method next to old workings underground made Bilsthorpe a different case from normal , but they stress the system was carefully examined before it was allowed . |
| 14 | ‘ There are many people who do n't like the poll tax but they obey the law and pay it . |
| 15 | Pepsi and Shirlie may not have reached George 's superstar status but they know the direction they 're moving in — ‘ We do n't want to be bubblegum one-hit-wonders . |
| 16 | Gold ( 1958 ) suggests that the researcher may be : ( a ) a complete participant , concealing his true identity and intentions from the group , and living entirely as they do ; or ( b ) a participant-as-observer , actively involved in the group , but they know the researcher is not really one of them ; or ( c ) an observer-as-participant , a less common mode , usually involving a brief visit with limited participation . |
| 17 | He says it could have easily been him , but they know the risk when they get ready to start . |
| 18 | No but they know the form , you know , we ca I ca n't erm I 'm not sure and then , now I 'm learning , you know , and it 's li I 'm learning the hard way and I 've got ta carry on learning the hard way cos I ca n't break it , you know ? |
| 19 | But they admit the interest is still largely experimental and that demand comes mainly from foreign tourists willing to try English fare . |
| 20 | Studies of series of patients who have been operated on report survival not much worse than that expected for the age matched general population , but they ignore the possible effects of length-time bias and case selection for operation . |
| 21 | But they lack the three essentials : they do not evolve , they do not process energy , and they can not be called organisms . |
| 22 | In our marriage counselling we have met many who have a good understanding of how they should be treating their partner , but they lack the proper motivation . |
| 23 | More modern , historically accurate accounts of SBS activities are available ; but they lack the colour of this first-hand view , expressed in many humorous turns of phrases — albeit with a tinge of bitterness with regard to operations on mainland Greece and the Istrian Peninsula , where partisans demonstrated their fickle tendencies . |
| 24 | I 'm Partick born and bred But they 've the cheek tae |
| 25 | But they put the tax up in the budget did n't they ? |
| 26 | Pictures are useful for interviewing purposes as not only do they assist discussion during a group interview , but they enable the interviewer to estimate the communication skills of the candidates . |
| 27 | Reports may be brief or lengthy but they follow the same pattern . |
| 28 | These guys do n't blow women away ( in fact they flinch at the sight of guns ) but they exclude the opposite sex from their inner life . |
| 29 | But they overlook the fact that , to the cat , they are huge and therefore psychologically overwhelming . |
| 30 | Chemists now know this is untrue , but they remain the most unreactive substances . |