Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He knew that the universe was complex but that it obeyed certain rules , although , she supposed , he would n't have used the word ‘ obey ’ with its implication of conscious choice . |
| 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 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but once you become known sales will increase , ’ said the publisher . |
| 7 | But although she escaped personal attack , the reviews of the £20 million blockbuster were far from ‘ perfick ’ . |
| 8 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I know but if we print bilingual ones |
| 12 | So he has an interesting idea that we can set up democratic procedures to protect the minority within those procedures so that tyranny of the majority is something that afflicts only certain types of democracies , but if we have other types of democracies then we can protect the minority and the idea for proportional representation is often claimed in this light , but actually it does n't work as an idea , because although it allows a minority to be represented , represented is a different from being protected and so even if there 's a member of parliament with the one member of parliament with your unpopular views , that does n't mean that your unpopular views wo n't be made illegal say , because the fact that there 's one member of parliament wo n't mean that |
| 13 | ‘ But if they kill dear Ashi — ’ His eyes were wide with dread ‘ — or little Sousan ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Giving up fruit may make you concerned about Vitamin C deficiency , but if you eat sufficient quantities of fresh vegetables this should not be a problem . |
| 17 | But if you prefer variegated leaves try Hebe fortunei ‘ Albopicta ’ or the fold or silver Euonymus fortunei . |
| 18 | YOU 'RE PRETTY SAFE munching prawns in Morecambe Bay , but if you intend cracking crabs in the Orient , there 's a distinct risk of being stuck down by Hepatitis A , a virus mainly caught from contaminated food , particularly shellfish , and water . |
| 19 | It normally costs £9.99 ( cheques payable to but if you quote RUNNING Magazine and your race number , you can get a pack for £8.50 plus p & p . |
| 20 | But if you want real change , if you long for a better future for yourself , your family , your community and your country , then read on . |
| 21 | ‘ But if you want cheap food , go to pizza take-aways or tramezzini , and eat at counters in bars . |
| 22 | But if you think polluted air is affecting your health , consult your doctor first . |
| 23 | You can apply the oil to the buttocks if you like , but if you find vigorous massage too awkward to carry out here , there is no need to worry . |
| 24 | But if you wear light tights — you know , sheer tights and a short skirt and high heels — people seem to think that means you 're dressed up , a different type . |
| 25 | Any catfish will eat cichlid eggs or fry , but if you have small catfish , and give the dwarfs plenty of plants , and caves with small entrances , some fry should be produced . |
| 26 | The kindest way is to let it dry naturally , but if you have long hair , this is n't particularly practical in winter , so if you do use a dryer regularly , use a diffuser for a more gentle drying action . |
| 27 | Having flowers in the house is lovely , but if you buy fresh flowers every week it is rather expensive : artificial flower arrangements might be a good alternative . |
| 28 | But if it involves simple images , there 's no need to buy the most complicated package . |
| 29 | ‘ I accept the recommendation that the licences should not be revoked , but if it becomes public knowledge that the tools are to be used to make munitions , deliveries would have to stop at once . |
| 30 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |