Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 2 | But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions . |
| 3 | Yeah , but where she bought the house then ? |
| 4 | Everything within reason must be done to ensure not only that children are not neglected but that they get the best upbringing possible … . |
| 5 | We must demonstrate that poverty , unemployment , low pay and low skills are not just barriers to individual opportunity , but that they undermine the capacity for wealth creation . |
| 6 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 7 | Our failure was not that we neglected the figures , but that we ignored the ideology … |
| 8 | However , our real weakness is not that we lack the potential , but that we lack the will to act . |
| 9 | When asked about a timeframe for these auctions , the spokesman said that there was ‘ no hurry ’ but that he expected the aircraft to have gone to its new home by Christmas . |
| 10 | He said his wife was encouraging him , but that he realized the difficulties of coming back to the Commons and of the years after the election if we were in office or even more if we were in opposition . |
| 11 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 12 | Suppose that v t is not serially uncorrelated , as restriction ( 7.3 ) requires , but that it bears the following , hitherto unsuspected relationship to : |
| 13 | The natural way to interpret the EPR experiment is not that it shows up the incompleteness of quantum theory but that it manifests the falsity of naive locality . |
| 14 | Krashen maintains that in practice it is difficult to encourage monitor use , but that it has the advantage of being able to draw consciously on language competence to produce utterances at levels which have not yet been acquired . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 16 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 17 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 18 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 19 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 20 | ‘ Nothing would do but that she have the honour of meeting you , signorina , despite my best efforts to convince her otherwise . ’ |
| 21 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 22 | Widnes held Cas and led 4-2 at half-time but once they had the wind at their backs in the second half , they began to dominate . |
| 23 | The driveway was still snowed up , but once they reached the road there was a narrow track between high mounds on each side . |
| 24 | you know , so just half a gui but it , it got that , but once they changed the opening hours do you remember when they brought in six |
| 25 | But once we have the treasure , we 'll find it soon enough . |
| 26 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 27 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 28 | And w would that be the talk about the door but once you had the door off . |
| 29 | You get the first week will seem a bit strange but once you get the first week over you 're alright then . |
| 30 | But once you got the bone , you take it home , bake it , dry it well , and break it up into powder . |