Example sentences of "[verb] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Involuntary reception into care : if a child or young person is in a situation of acute danger the youth department is entitled to intervene , but parents or guardians have to be informed immediately and the case be brought before a court for a care decision before the end of the day following the admission ( s. 42 ) , Where force is necessary , the police department must act but under the professional guidance of the youth department . |
| 2 | It is a post that Mr Havel did not seek but for which he was the only serious candidate . |
| 3 | Valerie is still hopeful that she 'll be able to get the school reopened but at the moment it looks as if this is as close as these children will get to being at Brockweir School . |
| 4 | Ex-Eton schoolboy Jonathan Barton was bullied but unlike Charles , he knew better than to take his complaint to the headmaster . |
| 5 | For once the camera did lie , not about the beauty she was becoming but in camouflaging the vulnerable personality behind her effortless capacity to dazzle . |
| 6 | So it 's , it 's small things like that which although on their own , as we did n't recycle but for all those people who bought cards and the people they send them to are , are now aware , that they need to create a market . |
| 7 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 8 | Most of this information comes not so much from what is happening but from what is not happening . |
| 9 | The precise circumstances surrounding the granting of individual sub-licences necessarily varied but in general the taxpayer sent representatives abroad to solicit business and to negotiate with potential customers . |
| 10 | No I do n't know but on Saturday it 's gon na be all like li little couples . |
| 11 | and they sort of met and how they did n't hit I do n't know but at the moment it 's , well get the car back today it 's er been away being done , cos somebody smashed into him |
| 12 | I do n't know but to be truthful I am not hundred percent sold on any of it . |
| 13 | A pupil observation checklist was prepared on which originally , seating plans were included but on advice , largely concerned with difficulty of interpretation , this was removed . |
| 14 | Any program that receives favourable reviews from enough teachers should be considered for — distribution as it stands but on a national basis — production to a professional standard — transferability to other microcomputers — publication by national system — publication by commercial publishers . |
| 15 | New figures show just 119 of the 15,767 properties controlled by the council , less than one per cent , fit to be let but without a tenant . |
| 16 | Yet the phrase had remained with him , particularly in its darker aspect , the way it appears to most of those who are bound by the puritan ethic , not as a haven to live in and enjoy but as a paradise to be expelled from . |
| 17 | They decline to be interviewed but in a statement to us said , this year , productivity has increased while the accident rate has fallen . |
| 18 | Spaced but in line . |
| 19 | Britain is a small , crowded island , largely oriented in terms of industry and population to England ( and especially the Southeast of England ) , with a class-based society that has superseded but by no means discarded the characteristics of a status-based feudal society . |
| 20 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 21 | Here was the moment of destiny , not just for Forget but for French tennis and , it seemed , for the whole of France . |
| 22 | JILL HUNTER goes into the World Cross Country Championships on Saturday with her Olympic team place already booked but with a psychological hurdle to clear . |
| 23 | Four became pregnant after their primary gall stones had dissolved but before trial entry . |
| 24 | They told him to keep his mouth shut and left , not by the way they had come but through another door which led out through the bazaar . |
| 25 | Where else could it have come but from your beautiful , selfish mother ? |
| 26 | Females also croak but with a slightly softer tone . |
| 27 | Among the surviving examples are Brixworth Church ( where Roman bricks have been re-used but without radiating voussoir construction ) ( 250 and 392 ) , Earl 's Barton , tower ( 251 ) , Sompting Church , eleventh century tower , S. Lawrence , Bradford-on-Avon , tenth century , Worth Church , tenth century ( 386 ) , also those at Greensted , Barton-on-Humber , Escomb , Boarhunt ( 426 ) and Bradwell . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 29 | You might not be able to come but at least you can you may at least have had the opportunity , so erm that 's how they 're being decided . |
| 30 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |