Example sentences of "of [noun] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many sacks use texturised nylon fabrics with a sort of natural feel which can take up a certain amount of moisture but dry off quickly . |
| 2 | The defendants paid in cash the balance of £250 but did not deliver the lorries . |
| 3 | Cater Allen 's High Interest Cheque Account , which currently pays a gross CAR of 7.76% , requires a minimum investment of £1,000 but pays interest down to £500 . |
| 4 | As a community do we seek out the poor and oppressed , endeavouring to help them in their struggle for dignity or do we put them in our litanies of prayer but refuse to act ? |
| 5 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 6 | They were built mainly of brick but had columns , capitals , entablatures and wall coverings of marble and stone taken from the numerous ruined Roman secular buildings ; most floors were of Roman mosaic . |
| 7 | Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | The Art Gallery had a nice exhibition about slices of NZ history done on a ‘ time-travel ’ theme ; a teenage girl travels back to visit Abel Tasman 's ship , Joseph Banks ’ study etc and sends aerograms ‘ home ’ , full of description but made realistic with 20th century NZ teenage jargon . |
| 10 | They caused about £800 worth of damage but fled empty handed when the alarm went off . |
| 11 | Burglars caused £90 worth of damage but stole nothing when they broke into the Lunn Poly shop in High Street , Northallerton . |
| 12 | Burglars caused £90 worth of damage but stole nothing when they broke into the Lunn Poly shop in High Street , Northallerton . |
| 13 | BT freezes cost of calls but puts up rental |
| 14 | There are a variety of methods of attachment but to ensure a tight connection ( which is essential ) the inhaul rope should be tied when the boom is parallel to the mast so that when swung down to its normal position it tightens the rope . |
| 15 | It must have only lasted a couple of minutes but believe me it felt like hours . |
| 16 | The Report acknowledged the problems involved in determining the levels of difficulty and complexity in the work that has to be carried out in the social services and the barriers that exist to sharing this work among different kinds of personnel but concluded that ‘ nevertheless , some distinction in work levels is possible and necessary in our view , and this is most practicable where there is close teamwork and an emphasis on ‘ team responsibility' ’ for cases , ( pp. 137–8 ) . |
| 17 | It was n't new of course but made of a very good material . |
| 18 | He came back and used another word I knew of course but had never heard my father , or any adult , say before . |
| 19 | The ability to organise a classroom , a group or an individual child , to structure experience so that learning not only occurs at the moment of teaching but remains ; the sensitivity to perceive the world from a child 's perspective , the understanding to build for tomorrow upon the child 's present , and to know and appreciate a child 's weaknesses and strengths — these are the skills which are the basis for a teacher 's claim to ‘ professionalism ’ . |
| 20 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 21 | The treacherous oak swayed above , the tree that had promised the milk of Paradise but had stood guard instead overtop the spilling of other fluids . |
| 22 | You can walk most of the Ringstrasse in a couple of hours but exploring this exercise in mass intimidation is a tedious business . |
| 23 | Common belief suggests that learning occurs as the result of experience but construct theory turns this belief upon its head by proposing that learning itself is what constitutes an experience ( Kelly , 1963 , p. 173 ) . |
| 24 | He 's an ungrateful bastard at the best of times but biting the hand that feeds you while it 's feeding you is a bit out of order . |
| 25 | Eadulf , a Saxon noble , was appointed to organise the defence of Sussex but died from the plague before much could be done . |
| 26 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 27 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 28 | He handled large sums of money but lost much of his wealth on the 1709 contract , when the price of corn rose unexpectedly . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This case is similar to that of Wright et al in that none of the intestinal tissue provided morphological evidence of lymphoma but differs in the unusual finding of a high grade lymphoma in the pleural lesion . |