Example sentences of "but [adj] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both had a point but neither would concede to the other . |
| 2 | But that may change with the release of the £22 million Super Mario film next summer . |
| 3 | Seventh , the justices had no doubts as to the care the grandparents could give the children but that would result in the children being separated and the justices felt very strongly that that should not happen . |
| 4 | He may have been unusual , but that would lie in the range of his talents rather than in possessing any individual one of them . |
| 5 | But that will last for a certain length of time , |
| 6 | The only other observation is that the screen brilliance is n't up to battling with a bright sunlit office , or overhead fluorescent lights , but that could apply to the majority of today 's notebook computers . |
| 7 | But that could wait until the following day . |
| 8 | But er yes there , there was er , th that was , wa was the football club was there all along like , you know There used to be , that one what 's still on , on but that used to belong to the L N S then , they had er , a good football team . |
| 9 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 10 | Some , of course , deny that such purity of method is possible but few would argue with the proposition that where a description of law is coloured by the expositor 's own values it is a virtue for these values explicitly to be registered . |
| 11 | But some will wonder about the direction in which the voice is calling them . |
| 12 | When the temperature gradient exceeds a critical value , convection currents start — the liquid all wants to rise to the top of the layer , but some must fall to the bottom . |
| 13 | The Historia Brittonum ( ch. 63 ) states that Eadwine was baptized with thousands of his people by a Briton , Rhun , son of Urbgen ( possibly to be identified with Urien , lord of Rheged ) , but this may rest on a confusion of Bede 's account of mass-baptisms by Paulinus in the River Glen near Yeavering ( HE 11 , 14 ) with the occasion of the baptism of Eadwine which took place in York ( HE 11 , 14 ) . |
| 14 | But this may look like a very odd form of neutrality to the weaker child . |
| 15 | It was therefore decided to run a third train on December 5 , but this would clash with the start of our intensive Santa Special operations and so we had no choice but to operate the train from the Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway Station . ’ |
| 16 | Clients who needed money would become upset at what they considered inappropriate questioning , but this would suggest to the workers that they had touched a sensitive point , confirming some personal theory that it was not really money that the clients required . |
| 17 | The obvious answer is to fuse national insurance with income tax , but this would offend against the notion ( it is really no more than that ) that the national insurance system is ‘ contributory ’ . |
| 18 | You could partition off part of the tank for the other fish but this would detract from the overall appearance and may not necessarily work . |
| 19 | There is a danger of closed-belief systems emerging in the social sciences , but this can apply to the way in which a thinker is excluded from debates about human society as well as to the strict adherence to one thinker , or type of thinker , alone , as a safe source of authority . |
| 20 | There 's another element which Your Lordships have not touched on to do with this land which is why er we are being very cautious about our plans for it and that is that er the union railways have indicated a requirement to lease two point eight acres of the land for site purposes from nineteen ninety seven to thousand and three er , but this will depend on the timetable for construction of the Channel Tunnel Link . |
| 21 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 22 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 23 | The acquisition will initially increase Pilkington 's gearing to 90 per cent , but this will fall after the anticipated sale of the spectacle-lens business , Sola . |
| 24 | If one wants to increase the output of trained social workers or teachers one can reduce the length of their training and dilute its standard , but this will conflict with the need for more specialized staff for the more specialized needs and problems that better services reveal . |
| 25 | Multiple biopsies may be another way to show evidence of FAP ( microadenomata ) , but this will add to the risk of the procedure and a negative result may still not allow total reassurance . |
| 26 | There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology . |
| 27 | It is the responsibility of the ACPC for each locality to establish local inter-agency guidelines on procedures to be followed in individual cases but these must comply with the standards set in Working Together . |
| 28 | But these should occur as a result of tradition or of conscious choice rather than of necessity . |