Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But basically I think most courses now , not sure there 's actually a legal requirement , I do n't think it is , but most of them want a at least a year 's sort of full time experience in erm , you know , d dealing with underprivileged people really and their problems and people who ca n't cope for one reason or another , and how er y you can er er sort of help them and what sort of relationship you can build with them and so on , and how |
| 2 | They did n't go into details , but apparently they have medical records from their own GP and a letter from their local hospital . ’ |
| 3 | Like Tamas , most draft dodgers are barely in their twenties , but already they exhibit classic symptoms of exile 's syndrome : relief at getting out , guilt at leaving their family and friends behind and an unbreakable addiction to the news about the wars in former Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | But not everyone accepts these arguments . |
| 5 | But once we use Christian values to complete it , it renders the system logically inconsistent ; because we can not introduce Christian values on a piecemeal basis . |
| 6 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 7 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 8 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 9 | Thirty years ago , rubbing a cut clove of garlic round the salad bowl was considered daring , but now we import 4,572 tonnes of the stuff , mainly from Italy , Spain and France , and as well as its wide ranging culinary uses there is increasing interest in its medicinal powers . |
| 10 | Later she would agonise over all the might have beens , but now she had other things on her mind , things that would n't wait . |
| 11 | But now he has other plans : ‘ I used to think I was a female in a male body . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh of course there are always exceptions , but mainly I think romantic novelists are quite wrong . |
| 13 | But today they asked regular shoppers to think back exactly one week , and some replies have been helpful . |
| 14 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 15 | I 've never believed it , but sometimes she makes such leaps of comprehension … |
| 16 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 17 | You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's wonderful , ’ said the man , but then he saw four Scots sitting at a table without a drink . |
| 19 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 20 | But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's . |
| 21 | But then I love growing houseplants . |
| 22 | ‘ But then I love beautiful things , do n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | But then you have these bands , like Def Leppard … |
| 24 | But otherwise I find more cons than pros . |
| 25 | But seriously they want ten times whatever ! |
| 26 | Many people in a management position maybe using P Cs on their desk , I mean those move more and more into the organization as people work with spreadsheet people work with electronic mail and so on and so forth , and the ability to use the P C as their terminal , their window into the accounting application , but secondly they have these tools such as spreadsheets which again are able to directly access the database and the accounting data maintained within it . |
| 27 | I realise that prices for aquarium plants vary , but recently I purchased 18 pieces of Straight Vallis and 8 pieces of Rotala macrandra and was charged a staggering £9.05 . |