Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 2 | There is a danger , if this is done , that it may be forgotten that pottery is not only a fascinating subject in its own right , but that it offers vital dating evidence for the chronology of the site , and the key sherds must appear in the body of the main report , with similar critical evidence . |
| 3 | Aristotle said something very interesting in that extract from the Politics which I quoted earlier ; he said that women have a deliberative faculty but that it lacks full authority . |
| 4 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 5 | so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now . |
| 6 | But although she escaped personal attack , the reviews of the £20 million blockbuster were far from ‘ perfick ’ . |
| 7 | Like Althusser , Foucault was once called a structuralist , but although he shows great interest in structures ( including the structures of thought and of ‘ discourse ’ in different ages ) he differs significantly from both Althusser and other struc-turalists , often being described consequently as ‘ post-structuralist ’ — and ‘ post-Marxist ’ and ‘ post-modernist ’ as well . |
| 8 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 9 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 10 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 11 | It seems a bit odd to be asking people to join the CTC in order to further the interests of cycling in Scotland ; but if we get this leaflet off the ground we can then tell HQ what we are doing for them . |
| 12 | But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . " |
| 13 | But if we reject this view in favour of memory as a property of the brain as a system , rather than of its individual cellular and molecular components , then memory will depend not on distinct biochemistry but on just which cells and synapses are showing the changes , where they are located in the nervous system , and which other cells they make contact with . |
| 14 | ‘ But if they kill dear Ashi — ’ His eyes were wide with dread ‘ — or little Sousan ? ’ |
| 15 | things were looking good some of the players were a little disappointed but if they win next week that 's three points from four which is n't a bad start |
| 16 | But if they met each other , Lewis … ? |
| 17 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 18 | I mean , I do n't think Colin 's unhappy where he wants to do , then an offers an offer , like either they go in and make share , but if they work all day . |
| 19 | ‘ I mean , if you believe that , then what you 're saying is women basically do n't want sex , but if they have enough food stuffed down their faces , they might be persuaded . |
| 20 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 21 | If I strained I could see the world as others did , stereoscopically , but if I relaxed binocular vision would ensue , and while one ‘ eye ’ would remain focused , the other would slide away into the clouded periphery where The Fat Controller and his machinations held sway . |
| 22 | But if I come one day and Liverpool are from the league , I |
| 23 | but if I work next week I 'm due a day off . |
| 24 | The young man was claimed to be ‘ abundantly capable of the office ’ , but if he had any experience which might justify his placement in a supervisory post , it was not mentioned . |
| 25 | I think he 's got a good idea here but if he takes that slant to his story you could do rather well . |
| 26 | In making his decision , he seeks the advice of the judiciary , but if he has good reason for doing so , he is , as a matter of law , entitled to set a tariff period different from that recommended by the judges . |
| 27 | Yeah but if he has another shop is he still going to get his |
| 28 | But if you marry that woman , you will break my heart . ’ |
| 29 | But if you marry that woman , you will break my heart . |
| 30 | ‘ But if you make another monster to be my friend , we wo n't hurt anyone . |