Example sentences of "but [subord] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year . |
| 2 | But if time presses , you can take a direct road from Frauenfeld . |
| 3 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 4 | During your turn you can be as bitchy , whiny or self-righteous as you like — but when time 's up , that 's it . |
| 5 | But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand . |
| 6 | But as time went on , it became less of a joke . |
| 7 | But as time passed , she became a dangerous influence . |
| 8 | It was impossible to catch her , but as time went on , she started to venture nearer to houses and populated areas . |
| 9 | But as time passed and the Stewards had still not delivered their decision it became obvious that the matter was not so clearcut . |
| 10 | Initially , the isolation is likely to make the horse overtly anxious ; but as time passes , its restlessness is likely to give way to depression . |
| 11 | At first relations between the PLO outside and the Patriotic Front inside were cordial , but as time went by the PLO leadership became increasingly uneasy about the Patriotic Front taking its own initiatives . |
| 12 | But as time passed numbers and distances grew . |
| 13 | But as time went on and the numbers grew , more organized arrangements had to be made ; and the abbot of Cluny had from time to time to undertake mighty journeys . |
| 14 | It served the ancients well but as time went by infibulation dropped from regular practice and adolescents resumed theirs . |
| 15 | But as time goes by it just gets harder . |
| 16 | At first , combos were referred to disparagingly by dedicated ‘ separates ’ users , but as time has gone by it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate , in performance terms , between combo and stack . |
| 17 | But as time went on the situation just got worse and costs started to escalate . |
| 18 | But as time went on , the quality of her life deteriorated . |
| 19 | But as time went on they began returning to the box , which was what we wanted them to do . |
| 20 | But as time wears on , the novelty wears off and dissatisfaction results . |
| 21 | But as time went on he seemed not to mind who saw him , who heard about his infidelities . |
| 22 | But as time progressed , and as she became ‘ official ’ as a member of the KGB , it was always the babushka who averted her gaze and looked away . |
| 23 | But as time goes on , people seem to lose sight of the reason why it is necessary to issue licences to these people and certificates of airworthiness for aircraft , etc. , etc . |
| 24 | Their initial relationship is one of icy formality , but as time goes on they seem to have more in common … |
| 25 | But as time went by the marriage turned sour . |
| 26 | They were likely in the early days to come from families connected with the trade , but as time went on , recruitment was wider . |
| 27 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 28 | I knew nothing about fish , but as time went by , I went mad and bought a 24″ glass tank with a crude external filter . |
| 29 | The original monastery physic gardens were fairly plain , with rectangular or square beds in lines , but as time went on , and private households began to grow their own medicinal cures , food flavourings and fragrances , the sites devoted to herbs became more elaborate , until they were often laid out in the " knot " style , an intricate arrangement of beds said to have taken its name originally from the lover 's knot . |
| 30 | But as time passed , their questions seemed to make Mother unhappy , so they stopped asking them . |