Example sentences of "[pn reflx] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stronger version of the argument , not developed by Leontief himself but based on his theoretical foundations , is that the high level of productivity of capital may mean that in many instances it will be cheaper to use machines rather than people to perform jobs unless the wage rate is well below subsistence level . |
| 2 | Just as Jesus did not draw attention to himself but set out to glorify his Father by passing on the Father s message to men ( 8:28 , 1 2:28,1 7:4 ) , so the Paraclete will not speak on his own authority … but will take what is mine and declare it to you' ( 16 : 14 ) . |
| 3 | He did n't sing himself but seemed to inspire his colleagues ( Concerto Vocale ) with a feeling for nuance , simplicity of expression and nobility of projection in an extremely fine and responsive acoustic . |
| 4 | Kempton would have liked to have ridden Foinavon in the National himself but displayed loyalty to his owners on two counts — his minimum riding weight of 10 stone 10 pounds would put him 10 pounds overweight ; and he had another horse running at Worcester . |
| 5 | Blencowe apparently owed his career as a judge to Wallis who turned down a bishopric for himself but asked that his son-in-law be considered for a judicial appointment [ DNB , 20 , 598–602 ] . |
| 6 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 7 | To the capitalist , socialist countries would represent the situation where deliberate ‘ rejection ’ and ‘ reinterpretation ’ of social dogma is not widely evident , since the capitalist rejects the underlying philosophy of those countries himself but finds that its inhabitants do not . |
| 8 | Palin never says this himself but talking to him and reading through previous interviews , one thing is striking . |
| 9 | A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth . |
| 10 | Here is the fair mall ( mallet ) To give a knock on the skull To the man who keeps no gear for himself But gives all to his bairns . |
| 11 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 12 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |
| 13 | Is Dr Campbell saying that Christ did not really take our sin upon himself but acted as if he did ? |
| 14 | Hence Jacques Derrida 's influential concept of ‘ différance ’ ( translated in English as at once difference and deferral ) , a concept enabling us to ‘ reconsider all the pairs of opposites on which philosophy is constructed and on which our discourse lives , not in order to see opposition erase itself but to see what indicates that each of the terms must appear as the différance of the other , as the other different and deferred in the economy of the same ’ . |
| 15 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 16 | These rights do not exist in the information itself but arise from its confidential nature and the circumstances in which persons other than the originator of the information come by it . |
| 17 | Instead , capitalism is the helping and unobtrusive friend , not quite visible itself but arranging the scenery to everyone 's satisfaction . |
| 18 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |
| 19 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 20 | We shall not linger in Kursk itself but wander gently down a side road through this part of the Central Agricultural Region until we reach the Nikol'skaia volost' ( cluster of villages ) roughly 40 km. to the south-east ( Roslavl' lay 110 km. from Smolensk ) . |
| 21 | In her writings and lectures Blackwell demonstrated a firm belief in the intimate connection between physical and moral health , addressing women on domestic hygiene and on the relation between health and religion.24 Her book The Human Element in Sex , 1884 was adamant that medicine could not become an end in itself but needed to discover the workings of moral law . |
| 22 | In 1170 he had made a bid to capture Bourges itself but withdrew when Louis VII came up with an army . |
| 23 | She laughed shortly , obviously annoyed with herself but determined to make her point . |
| 24 | She was mysterious about herself but had plenty to say on the subject of her boyfriends . |
| 25 | Michelle does put her hair up herself but said it usually slips out because ‘ there 's just too much of it , besides , it 's just so well-conditioned ! ’ |
| 26 | Each time she exhausted herself but managed never to become ill . |
| 27 | Ideally , she would love to become pregnant again herself but admits to another stumbling block , apart from age — there is no man in her life . |
| 28 | She had protected herself but became aware that her womb was weeping for her . |
| 29 | Overbalancing , she clutched at Finn to save herself but pulled him over with her . |
| 30 | After 30 minutes of shattering windscreens , faces outside the shower door , spooky ‘ phone calls and ghostly voices echoing round the stately home , the fetching Lisa Orgolini ought to have been pretty shattered herself but contrived a successful fight-back against ancestral menace . |