Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion of Trotter ( 1949 ) that the whole of the South Wales coalfield was underlain by a regional thrust plane , probably represented at surface by the Careg Cennen disturbance , was scornfully rejected by O. T. Jones and others in one of the Geological Society 's historic controversies , but perhaps it deserves critical reconsideration in the light of recent ideas about deep crustal detachment zones . |
| 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 | The heat of the windless afternoon lay on her like a blanket , but suddenly she felt deathly cold . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But not everybody preferred one-day cricket : in sport , as in other social activities , the effects of media were controversial . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 8 | I was miserable at the time , but later I realised Heavenly Father was looking after me because if Aunt Mary had said play , we 'd have gone out , and I 'd have missed the breakthrough . |
| 9 | I think I 'd like to start by making a few general points , er and then er it will be a matter for for others to be somewhat more specific , I I I think I can say that the issue of a new settlement of a new settlement in Greater York is is a fairly unique situation , because we have agreement between the development industry and the County Council , and that 's something of a rarity , but also we have mild support from the Department of the Environment , and as Mr Davis has already said , that is backed by public support . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The several sects of Dissenters are glad to be rid of Popery also ; but now they expect glorious days for themselves " . |
| 12 | And on the front page they say : ‘ We did n't want to share our sorrow but now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 13 | But now we have good news to tell that we 're going to have a baby some time in December or January . ’ |
| 14 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 15 | But now we have good news to tell . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But now he has other plans : ‘ I used to think I was a female in a male body . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh of course there are always exceptions , but mainly I think romantic novelists are quite wrong . |
| 19 | But today they asked regular shoppers to think back exactly one week , and some replies have been helpful . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Koels also live in Australia but here they parasitise other species , and the young do not mimic the host . |
| 22 | So also can treating the water in ion-exchange systems but sometimes it produces other side effects . ) |
| 23 | As children become more experienced they establish their own interdependent relationships , but initially it requires careful questioning by the teacher : " You 're a woodworker . |
| 24 | ‘ But then we go straight back . |
| 25 | ‘ Distribution always seems to improve during the Christmas period , ’ he said , ‘ but then we bypass inefficient distributors by going direct to the excellent wholesalers . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 28 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 29 | But then I love growing houseplants . |
| 30 | ‘ But then I love beautiful things , do n't you ? ’ |