Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No significant additions to IT are envisaged in the foreseeable future but as RBG becomes more independent and estates staff and records increase a review in five years will be essential . |
| 2 | No they had n't a no they they started alright on that picket but as time rolled on and they was getting erm fed up with it , you know they that 's how it went as they were getting , oh I we wo n't go up there today , bugger it . |
| 3 | the first half was scrappy both i think the second was quite good — we had most of the play but when ipswich came through they always looked dangerous — allmost all their headers/shots went straight at beaney. beaney was excellent . |
| 4 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 5 | All this was familiar territory but as films became more ambitious so there emerged the possibility of fuller social statement . |
| 6 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 7 | Organiser Andrew Gemmell said the rare breeds were growing in popularity , with more farmers taking them on , not just as a hobby but as livestock to help out on farms . |
| 8 | Indian youngster handled England 's other bowlers with ease , he looked in tremendous form but when Botham came on and bowled him a harmless straight one , somehow managed to edge it into his pads and nearly played on . |
| 9 | It is impossible for the voter to know in advance whether it is his ballot paper which is going to contribute to the result of the election in this way but if voters do not express enough preferences then there is a risk that at some stage in the count their vote will become non-transferable and therefore exercise no further influence upon the result . |
| 10 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |