Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak not only of the Army — although as Colonel Moore knows probably better than I , the acts of heroism you see there in the face of pain — wounds , cuts , torn limbs ’ — he looked at Mrs Crump ; she swayed slightly — ‘ severed arteries , gashed heads ’ — Mrs Moore was unaffected — ‘ and all the terrible lacerations and disfigurements received on the human body in modern warfare ’ — Miss D'Arcy nodded ; she was intrigued — ‘ but I speak of the self-inflicted torments of the Indian , the Negro and the Mussulman . ’ |
| 2 | This matter has caused me great concern and problems early in the Parliament , but I hope in the next 24 hours to show where my true attitudes lie . |
| 3 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 4 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 5 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 6 | But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough |
| 7 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 8 | But I mean in the fifties , sixties |
| 9 | For example , racehorses abort all too frequently , which is particularly galling after a large stud fee , but I know of no accurate information about the comparative frequency of abortion of the four types of conceptus ( horse , donkey , mule and hinny ) . |
| 10 | But I know of no other performance that encapsulates the charmed essence of this infuriatingly diffuse music with such surety and projection . |
| 11 | ‘ But I know of no sociological survey that shows that . |
| 12 | But I relax with a good book whenever possible . |
| 13 | But I suppose in the last resort , they must have thought that the less sophisticated engineering featured here is only likely to attract a specialist audience . |
| 14 | I know the answer I will always get , but I work on the dripping water principle . |
| 15 | Without half a bottle of red wine inside me I might have slipped on the slimy breakwater , but I jump onto the stony beach and chase her along the shore . |
| 16 | But I have over the last six months had occasion to discuss this very matter with a number of very highly placed Americans , and it seems to me that thinking in that country is much more far-sighted than that represented by their countryman here . |
| 17 | But I believe from the written evidence that there is equally no dispute that the boundary which has existed for ten years , the tight boundary , is also capable of being a suitable greenbelt boundary if indeed there is to be an inset . |
| 18 | Years before , Nietzsche had written : " the past is dearer to me than the present ; but I believe in a better future " . |
| 19 | And then in the air it stiffens very slightly as it cools down , but I think on a nice warm day like this is might be . |
| 20 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 21 | The decision in Chamberlain was also followed and referred to in Vestey v IRC 31 TC 1 but Lord Reid did give a warning : The ingenuity of those who devise these schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property can never be comprised in a settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 22 | But I think in the long run , although I do n't agree with forty , I would rather have gone a forty two , erm it will probably help the sport immensely in the end . |
| 23 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 24 | I am hating him , but I writhe in a betraying ecstasy , an agony of pleasure . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm only 22 but I feel like an old man sometimes when I see what these little kids are doin' , ’ says Superia , a three-year Lo Life veteran . |
| 26 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 27 | On the amendment side I am reluctant it does infringe on a local democracy but I agree with the Liberal Democrats , it 's a way forward and it 's a responsibility of all of us I I agree with Roger when he mentioned that Professor mentioned that this is the Labour party like usually always mentioned it is your budget when the budget is approved it is the whole county council budget every member should be responsible for it . |
| 28 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 29 | In these areas there exist a number of churches which are Byzantine in inspiration but which differ from the eastern pattern in their execution . |
| 30 | When adult , this type may be prone to violent rages and self-righteous anger , which seem to erupt for no apparent reason , but which stem from a desperate need for self-assertion . |