Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This theory of ideology introduces a distorting dynamic in the process of knowledge that is not due to mistakes or faulty thinking but is systematically related to the social and material relations of society . |
| 2 | He was also aware that homosexuals in Britain at this time not only lived under the threat of illegality but were also regarded by many as deeply offensive . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know , Anna , my darling , that the poor child longed , only longed , to be a concert pianist but was literally forced by her ogreish father to nurse him while he died of drink and now her spirit is quite broken and all she can bring herself to do is dispense plastic cups of repellent coffee to OAPs going to Ferndown to see their married daughters ? ’ |
| 4 | The island county offered a stubborn reply but were always chasing a target well out of their reach and finally fell short on 155 all out . |
| 5 | There are changes we should all make ( if we have not made them already ) that have nothing to do with losing weight but are more to do with equipping ourselves for working at peak performance . |
| 6 | The nine-year-olds wanting to be thinner not only expressed a wish to lose weight but were already changing their eating habits to try to achieve their desired figure . |
| 7 | In Brixton he interviewed yet another man who admitted to the murder but was swiftly cleared . |
| 8 | The two pole dome originated on the continent but is best used in protected valley pitches . |
| 9 | Some southern populations winter in the forest ; northern populations winter in the snow but are often found further north than any other mammals ( Anderson and Lent , 1977 ) . |
| 10 | He said a number of people had been arrested in connection with the crime but were later released without charge . |
| 11 | These two groups provided the ‘ steady ’ leadership of labour but were always complemented by the unskilled and the seamen and by socialist intellectuals ( most of whom were manual workers in this period ) working around reproductive issues . |
| 12 | The principles were first applied in Japanese industry but are now finding increasing acceptance in the UK . |
| 13 | Two patients ( patient B and patient H ) were believed to have had proctitis but were subsequently found to have total colitis at colonoscopy with biopsy or histological examination of the colectomy specimen ( one Dukes 's B , one Dukes 's C ) ( Table I ) . |
| 14 | A TALENTED teenager gets a kick out of football but is also hitting a high note as a singer . |
| 15 | They claimed a hit by a vessel in the harbour but were then attacked by Ju87s of II/St.G 2 , which also machine-gunned the destroyers but without any serious effects . |
| 16 | From this viewpoint cultural rules are not given determinants of individual action but are continually built up and broken down as the result of individual choices and decisions . |
| 17 | If the court takes the view that the meeting was not a reasonable step in the action but was merely done for the client 's benefit , then the costs will be disallowed as against the defendants . |
| 18 | Quantum theory has taught us that the vacuum is not a featureless void but is continuously disturbed by particle-anti-particle pair creation and annihilation and that this endows the vacuum with energy . |
| 19 | Prince Johnson , the rebel who sliced off Doe 's ears before ( according to Mr Johnson ) forcing him to eat one while Mr Johnson chewed on the other , has given up asking to be president but is now surrounded by a team of ‘ advisers ’ . |
| 20 | It can be used when studying specific paddle strokes such as the low brace , forward paddling and bow rudder but is best used as an average overall measure of the paddlers style . |
| 21 | They turn up to work but are so stressed out they ca n't perform , there 's no added value to the product . |
| 22 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 23 | He also tried to get computing work but was only met with excuses . |
| 24 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 26 | It contained a great hall but was considerably altered following afire in 1871 . |
| 27 | After years of struggle against the French , in 1946 the Syrians secured independence but were soon engaged in a new conflict — with the state of Israel created on the ruins of neighbouring Palestine . |
| 28 | At a caucus meeting on May 31 , Hawke tried to force an open vote on the leadership issue but was eventually forced by Keating 's supporters to concede a secret ballot on June 3 . |
| 29 | My guest 's shellfish also left a fiery bite but was unfortunately drowned in a sauce combining sweetness of coconut milk with a sort of bathcube flavour . |
| 30 | These do not meet the sentencing requirement but are nevertheless deemed to be arrestable offences . |