Example sentences of "help but [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battles he won at such a cost to his health that he could n't help but lose the war in the end . |
| 2 | Try as she might to sound polite but distant , she could n't help but hear the ice in her own normally warm voice , and that annoyed her . |
| 3 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 4 | She says we could n't help but remember the sort of thumping speeches |
| 5 | Moreover , as Sperber and Wilson ( 1986 ) have shown , all stylistic choices , whether they be choices among linguistically determined possibilities or decisions about degrees of explicitness , are governed by the aim of optimising relevance , and can not help but reveal the speaker 's assumptions about the hearer 's contextual resources and processing abilities.7 Consider the difference between [ 18a ] and [ 18b ] : There is no difference in import . |
| 6 | And we can not help but contrast the generous appreciation of Dryden by Eliot , who might have been expected to be temperamentally less in tune with him . |
| 7 | Steve Hammond seemed to find his voice at last , but behind his smile , Lindsey could n't help but catch a faint note of desperation . |
| 8 | I ca n't help but think the two are connected — that the boy is responsible for this . ’ |
| 9 | Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’ |
| 10 | The piece was written in good taste but could n't help but leave the reader wondering just what had made Morrissey so paranoid . |
| 11 | But in this moment of confrontation , knowing that Ray Doyle would pull through , Bodie could not help but feel a touch of pity for the girl . |
| 12 | Shannon could n't help but feel a ripple of warmth for the man , even though they had n't even been introduced yet . |
| 13 | Despite herself , Rory could n't help but give a little laugh . |
| 14 | Still — she could n't help but give a little chuckle as she watched one small boy in calipers crossing the dance floor at an amazingly fast clip , hotly pursued by a red-faced Candy — the children had somehow managed to drag her out of the fog of misery that had enveloped her with Adam 's leaving . |
| 15 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 16 | Conservative though its aims were , in carrying through so fundamental a reform as Emancipation the government could not help but loosen the rigid framework of public life . |
| 17 | Another glorious day can be spent walking through the Fern ‘ distant ’ Pass , where you can not help but admire the jewel-like splendour of the turquoise coloured lakes . |
| 18 | One could not help but admire the perspicacity and ability of this dapper little man with the thick glasses and the easy smile . |
| 19 | Seeing the cramped , coffin-like quarters in which fifty men had to live , eat , sleep and fight , often in appalling weather for up to six weeks at a time and knowing how marginal were their chances of survival , I could n't help but admire the resolution that had kept them fighting , their morale undimmed , until the very end . |
| 20 | But Le Tissier said : ‘ You ca n't help but admire the bloke . |
| 21 | Managers and engineers could not help but admire the assiduity and skill with which he could wear down his opponents in discussion , but for many of them this approach conflicted with other managerial values . |
| 22 | SEVERAL hours into the work of Derek Jarman , I could n't help but recall a television profile of the film-maker screened earlier this year . |
| 23 | For me it was like an Aladdin 's Cave , and one could not help but notice the often ridiculously low prices being asked . |
| 24 | As I eat I can not help but notice the Frenchman attending to the pig ; he has now cut the animal 's throat and has set alight to the straw , the flames and smoke engulfing the unfortunate pig . |
| 25 | Reading brochures and newspapers these days , you ca n't help but notice the amount of ‘ buzzwords ’ that are commonly used . |
| 26 | Dane leaned forwards to stir the fire and , even in her confused state of mind , Shannon could n't help but notice the man 's innate grace of movement . |
| 27 | Later they found a small , quiet restaurant on the outskirts of the city , and Shannon could n't help but notice the admiring glances of male diners and waiters as Marianne swayed into the room . |
| 28 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 29 | It seems that work on the use of relevance feedback can not help but include an element of research in the design of adaptive systems . |