Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] a strong [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had a strong suspicion even then that he was drinking to something other than my health . |
| 2 | I wondered what would happen if I ignored the call or pretended it was n't me , but I had a strong feeling that they knew it was me . |
| 3 | A piece of impudence on my part , really , but I have a strong sense of civic duty . |
| 4 | Not nice but she had a strong character . |
| 5 | A school that is taking marketing seriously will look to appoint ‘ people persons ’ , individuals that are not necessarily charismatic but who show a strong concern for others . |
| 6 | We know very little about their lives but we get a strong sense of the individuality of each one in their writings . |
| 7 | I was eyeballing distances at that time , and had no real idea how far Roberto had to clear the out-of-bounds and a wee bank that ran round the hole , but we had a strong breeze behind us going from right to left . |
| 8 | But there remains a strong respect for the religious leadership of the protestant — loyalist bloc . |
| 9 | From the early 1920s Chiang devoted much of his attention to suppressing his communist rivals rather than forming a united front with them to resist the Japanese , but they established a strong base in the northwest following the Long March of 1934 . |
| 10 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 11 | By comparison with music , the visual arts barely touched him ( a fact presumably connected with the poor eyesight he had from birth ) , but he possessed a strong feeling for poetry , especially Romantic poetry . |
| 12 | He exaggerates when he speaks of a ‘ deafening silence , from historians on the land question , but he makes a strong case for placing the land issue near the centre of any sound historical analysis of the period . |
| 13 | But he held a strong attraction for the the Duchess — and by now she was totally out of the Palace 's control . |
| 14 | But it has a strong voice … and it is n't just directed at cheese . |