Example sentences of "but the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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31 | And er again they 're some of the side of the trade that has altered , but the basics are still there . |
32 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
33 | But the radars used by the Iraqi missile batteries and aircraft have threatened allied patrols . |
34 | Recalling his comfortable officers ' quarters in the south , he commented that ‘ the ballot of the ensuing summer renewed our vigour and youth ’ , but the working-men of the north resisted having their lives interrupted and at Hexham in Northumberland a serious anti-ballot riot occurred in which 42 men were killed and another 48 wounded . |
35 | Something like ’ reduce greatly ’ will do — But the Europeans came up with a new wheeze to infuriate everyone . |
36 | But the Europeans refused to be convinced by American arguments that the credibility of the overall American guarantee to Europe would in fact be increased if sufficient forces could be deployed to make the the strategy of flexible response a reality . |
37 | The mine at Coniston was also in production but the workings were very poor in metal . |
38 | But the victors of the first world war , without the gift of prophecy , set about with vigour to apply a great principle to the realms of the defeated empires : the Hohenzollerns , the Hapsburgs and the Ottomans . |
39 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
40 | At the first interview there were no GHQ differences between those who subsequently found work and those who did not , but the groups diverged on leaving school . |
41 | But the groups had historic scores to settle with each other , some of the nastiest no older than the second world war . |
42 | The telephone ‘ conference call ’ for instance , enabled a widely separated group of individuals to share a telephone discussion , but the groups were too small to count as ‘ mass ’ . |
43 | The evening air had its accustomed November nip , but the groups making their way from Celtic Crescent were impervious to it . |
44 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
45 | A professional designer , Jean Bayle , with a track record for breathing new life into tired titles , was hired but the changes he favoured were deemed rather too radical and , in the end — as is often the case on Le Monde where the staff hold a significant stake in the company — the consensus view prevailed . |
46 | But the changes to the immigration package made yesterday were minor . |
47 | But the changes to the immigration package made yesterday were minor . |
48 | But the changes have not all happened in the past decade . |
49 | For many , the drug was a catalyst , but the changes that acid produced were shaped by wider influences . |
50 | The infant may gain weight and make progress developmentally while in hospital but the changes in personality and behaviour may be slower . |
51 | With pavements and roads or fields the lines of the drawing may suggest recession but the changes of colour usually do not and are hard to recognise . |
52 | Chapter 1 looked at the UK in an international context , but the changes that it examined have had major implications for the internal structure and organization of the economy . |
53 | Not with height , but the changes I 'd seen , not just in my own life but in the fortunes of Danu . |
54 | The radical direction was chosen but the changes were not all made at once . |
55 | In 1986 a constitutional convention comprehensively revised the territory 's constitution , but the changes have yet to be ratified by the US Congress . |
56 | But the changes they have agreed on , if they are really carried out , will poke a big hole in party power . |
57 | But the changes produced their own set of tensions and contradictions . |
58 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
59 | So that any changes in output .. right .. lead forget that diagram it does n't really show what I am about to say , but er when we have a price inelastic demand .. changes in output .. lead to changes in price , but the changes in output are overcompensated changes in price , so . |
60 | Around Oz , The Little Red Schoolbook , Last Exit To Brooklyn , the ‘ experts ’ would again be summoned to testify for liberalism and freedom of expression , but the cases would become inextricably blurred with others , about drugs , and , by 1972 , about political challenges to the state . |