Example sentences of "but [adv] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sooner or later the firm 's demand for investment capital would become so large that this demand could not be met at a fixed cost of capital and r would begin to rise . |
| 2 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 3 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |
| 4 | They still , of course , have that function , but more and more the Fund 's resources are being invested in influencing those agencies which are capable of generating the much larger sums of money required to carry out these long-term programmes . |
| 5 | Daniel Defoe describes the Fens shrouded in fog , through which nothing could be seen ‘ but now and then the lanthorn or cupola of Ely Minster ’ . |