Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few years after his return to Edinburgh he prepared anatomical and pathological demonstrations in the Department of Anatomy , but latterly he withdrew from public affairs . |
| 2 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 3 | But eventually it led to several notable improvements in the arrangements for the early detection of mental ill-health among faculty members . |
| 4 | But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit , the body no longer interested in sex , the mind no longer interested in speculation , the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and , in the end , the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all . |
| 5 | B Wilson He was also the only person who tipped Linfield to win the championship last season but perhaps you forgot about that . |
| 6 | But suddenly they looked like two strangers . |
| 7 | You can dream and dream but only what happens in this room night after night is important . |
| 8 | But soon we progressed to more state , of-the-art experimentation . |
| 9 | They occasionally lapse into the one-dimensional hatecore tedium that makes the likes of Foetus and Nitzer Ebb so unbearable in more than small doses , but elsewhere they sound like Metallica-esque grindcore , MBV bliss-noise , Napalm Death and even , on the best and last track of the album , dub reggae . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you what , me eyesight is n't great , but nevertheless I struggle with that . |
| 11 | The extreme range seems to be from 5 to 6.4 or so , but generally it remains between 4.6 and 5.2 ; it has not been through a major minimum since 1949 . |
| 12 | But individually they orbit at different speeds depending on their distance from the Sun , the innermost rocky planets orbiting much faster than the outer balls of frozen gaseous vapour , such as Jupiter , Saturn and Uranus . |
| 13 | But once I got into this set of gay men , it took over my social life almost completely . |
| 14 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |
| 15 | In 1975 contributions began to be collected through the PAYE system like income tax , but any you paid before that date still count towards your total . |
| 16 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 17 | He felt well enough some of the time , but whenever he came under mental or physical strain , he contracted a cough and a high temperature . |
| 18 | But now they wait in far-from-quiet anticipation for the main event . |
| 19 | But now we know for sure . |
| 20 | It had hardly seemed possible before : but now he knew for sure . |
| 21 | But now I think of these ideas as coming from a principle far more subtle . |
| 22 | But nowadays they call on new and brasher saints , whom St Margaret had not even met — Saints Epidura and Psychoprophilaxia . |
| 23 | If nothing else , she enjoyed feeling needed ; but sometimes she dreamed with disturbing vividness about the managing director , who had believed in full-length mirrors , bottles of champagne and the importance of taking one 's time . |
| 24 | But sometimes I push in front to balance her lightness , dreaminess . |
| 25 | You half expect their quiet moments to be a mere ‘ quiet before the storm ’ intro to some Metallica prog-thrash epic about hellspawn putrefaction , but then they meander into Sonic Youth discordant territory , then suddenly it 's walls of sonic bliss , then it 's off into a sample-aided , arse-quaking , ‘ Die asshole muthaf—er ’ industrial rant , then some tedious feedback wanking then … erm , that 's it . |
| 26 | But then you listen to alternative radio over here and you get non-stop Smiths … and you think , ‘ Great , in seven years ’ time , they 're going to be playing Carter and they 'll think we 're great ’ . |
| 27 | but then you add on six rows . |
| 28 | A 600 yard narrow ( 2' ) gauge line following the old trackbed was opened by Meirion Mill in 1975 , but unfortunately it closed in 1977 . |
| 29 | Erm but how you legislate for common sense and so on |
| 30 | ‘ But why they attacked in such numbers and with such determination is beyond my ken . |