Example sentences of "but [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do not send the artefacts or coins , but provide either a good quality drawings or photographs of front and reverse , and include details of dimensions , material of manufacture and any other helpful information . |
| 2 | Evangelical propaganda was thus able to achieve a sharp impact : while evangelicals like James Plumptree and Thomas Bowdler produced expurgated songs and literature , evangelical intellectuals like William Wilberforce , Hannah More and others such as Thornton and Stephen associated in the Clapham sect set up as moulders of a new ideology of domesticity , which not only proposed the family as a Christian haven in a disrupted world , but put forward a code of rules and regulations for the governing of individual lives . |
| 3 | Similar experiments , of greater variety and equal sophistication , have long been used to test human perceptual abilities but cause scarcely a ripple over the apparatus of our everyday perceptual judgements . |
| 4 | But imagine now a slightly different situation . |
| 5 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 6 | But consider now a somewhat different version of the " redundancy thesis " . |
| 7 | But consider now a different theory which takes its clue not from Leibniz but from Kant , while at the same time trying to eliminate the main causes of the difficulties and problems that bedevil Kant 's own approach . |
| 8 | If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound , |
| 9 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 10 | Shortly beyond Huswil , at Gettnau ( 10km , 6 miles from Huttwil ) road 23 continues straight ahead east to Sursee ( on the Sempacher Lake ) , but take instead a branch that goes off to the right for Willisau , a thirteenth-century foundation . |
| 11 | Housing committee chairwoman Margaret Clarke said : ‘ We are making progress on arrears , but have quite a long way to go . |
| 12 | These group or individual-related activities will usually be centred on one of the major design phases but address only an element of the overall scheme . |