Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only then is subcontracting widely practised but the small firms are so dependent on a limited range of buyers that they have little alternative but to accommodate to tight kanban schedules . |
| 2 | What was Meh'Lindi 's whole purpose , what was her very life , but to go into perilous places , always to emerge alive ? |
| 3 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 4 | And is the old rumour true ; are strings in reality all the same , but stuffed into different packages ? |
| 5 | He went through a schools system which made art compulsory , failing the subject at O-level but passed with flying colours to gain an Alevel in sculpture . |
| 6 | This means that you will no longer need to offer cash discounts for early payment , but gain from increased flexibility in offering credit terms to improve your competitiveness , and increased ability to accept large orders without excessive pressure on your cashflow . |
| 7 | Other families may not have meal-times but eat at erratic times of the day . |
| 8 | A rhetorical question , but asked with deep feeling . |
| 9 | Each distilled their football to pure essence — England brave , dogged , hard-tackling , hard-running ; West Germany all of this , but with a more cerebral approach and a technical proficiency to their skills ; Italy were graceful , inventive , passionate , defensively-minded but flecked with great individual skill ; and then there was Brazil — inspired by Pele , Tostao , Jarizinho , Gerson and Rivelino , they saw football as a means to creating beauty , and scoring goals as a form of existential ecstasy . |
| 10 | not fudged , but agreed in concrete terms on a rather different basis . |
| 11 | A little arsenic can cure disorders of the stomach , but given in regular small doses becomes a poison . |
| 12 | The case of Bishop Zhu Hongsheng , 76 , sentenced to 15 years in prison , was unrelated to the pro-democracy protests but led to international calls that China allow more freedom of worship . |
| 13 | An initial invasion of East Prussia relieved German pressure on the French but led to disastrous Russian defeats at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes . |
| 14 | A straw poll by The Bookseller last week revealed that Octopus , Bloomsbury and Macmillan were among publishers who closed for Christmas but reopened before New Year , and that publishers taking a 10 day break — closing on Christmas Eve and reopening on 4th January — included HarperCollins , Transworld , OUP , CUP , Orion and Dorling Kindersley . |
| 15 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 16 | Taking money for playing still disqualified a man for the highest honours in amateur eyes , but profiting from sporting fame indirectly through directorships did not . |
| 17 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 18 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |
| 19 | Local authority spending per se is not included but grants to local authorities and their total capital spending are . |
| 20 | My plants are strong and healthy , but suffer from Black Algae . |
| 21 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 22 | The TransPennine service , launched a century ago but struggling in recent years , has been turned into one of its flagship operations . |
| 23 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 24 | Certainly by the year 2000 BC , the tables of the Cretan rulers shone and glittered with drinking cups of gold and silver and , even in the century before the first temples were raised , those rulers were wearing elegant gold ornaments , not imported , but produced by Minoan craft workers . |
| 25 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 26 | Schools that have bought computers approved by the DoI but made by other firms , for instance Sinclair or Research Machines , can not buy adaptors . |
| 27 | According to this formalist approach art aspires to the condition of music , a phrase employed by Pater , but deriving from classical Greece . |
| 28 | There is already a successful lower end of the market selling at under five pounds but competing on equal terms with the more familiar names |
| 29 | Crews from all over the world were competing at Henley this weekend … for women rowers this is the big event of the year … but times are a changing … there 'll be a women 's single sculls at this years main Henley Regatta … they 've been there before in invitation races or coxing in men 's crews but competing in international competition is quite a breakthrough |
| 30 | This last is not the day.today catering provided by a commercial restaurant , a hotel dining room or a canteen , but catering at one-off " events " . |