Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They use their criticism not to refine plans for change but to block them . |
| 2 | He was too tired for work but felt he must continue otherwise he would think back to Cranston 's words about Benedicta . |
| 3 | The on the only thing is sometimes if you a if you ask some of these people to do these things I know it 's not a lot of responsibility but do you reckon it goes to his head ? |
| 4 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 5 | He said he was impressed by the range of stands but wished he was ten years younger because he thought the help on offer was best for younger people . |
| 6 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |
| 7 | A purpose of Clarkson 's History was thus not only to delineate a common pattern of consciousness but to promote it as a contribution to energising the internal networks of antislavery for future struggles . |
| 8 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 9 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 10 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 11 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 12 | The previous two aspects are clearly the main thrusts of RMI but combining them together successfully and reducing negative fall-out within the organisation is , in effect , the third aspect , that of managing the cultural change that new systems will inevitably produce . |
| 13 | Light is cast on the customs of contemporary devotion by the instruction not " climb up to the cross " to kiss Christ 's feet in tears of penitence but to do it in his heart . |
| 14 | Thus the ‘ qualities ’ covered a wider range of sports but gave them proportionately much less space overall than the populars . |
| 15 | They did not engage in an abstruse discussion of the technicalities of Trinitarianism but saw it as a paradigm of the religious experience of God . |
| 16 | Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence : She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants . |
| 17 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 18 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 19 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 20 | This was what war had done to innocent children , not only had it starved them of food but reduced them to be scavengers . |
| 21 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |
| 22 | The Evershed Committee in 1953 considered the introduction of such procedures in the Court of Appeal but rejected them . |
| 23 | There are laws against discrimination but to get them respected is another matter . |
| 24 | Gedge confirms that he flirted with Catt but felt he considered it harmless and totally unrelated to Charman 's dismissal . |
| 25 | " The same to you , my lord , and I am pretty well , thank you , " replied the farmer , quaking with fear but thinking it wisest to be polite . |
| 26 | I know that you tend to be inundated with questionnaires but hope you will agree that this is a vital area of concern and will help us find ways of reaching new ways of assisting young people in and into sport . |
| 27 | Hana looked at her husband with pride but wished he had cleaned his boots better . |
| 28 | Commodore 's CDTV also benefits from an association with CD-A but approaches it from the other direction . |
| 29 | Cautioning may have fallen into disrepute but to abandon it will mean a return to the punitive policies that this government had only recently said had failed . |
| 30 | Concertina invitations If your child has a favourite animal or activity , cut the card into shape but make it concertina fashion and place the different questions on the invitation in separate places . |