Example sentences of "but [conj] we [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions . |
| 2 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 3 | But if we took the highest price of everything then we 're making thousands and thousands and thousands . |
| 4 | But if we exaggerate the earlier parallels to the announcement made in Tintern Abbey and The Prelude we lose sight of Wordsworth 's purpose and of his originality in terms of the philosophic situation in 1798 . |
| 5 | But if we extend the above argument , drawn from the motivation of ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Party to the wider electorate , we would have to conclude that here — probably to an even greater extent — Hitler 's image was not dominated by his obsession with the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 6 | But if we oppose the negative point we make possible something positive , for two minuses make a plus . |
| 7 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 8 | It is true that an obvious field with high benefits and low risk would quickly get overcrowded , but if we generate a new concept there is no reason why the rewards should not be great and the risks low . |
| 9 | The normally small scabious scabiosa columbaria flowers in July and August , but if we have a wet spell now after a dry summer , then it could well flower a second time . |
| 10 | But if we did a full turning count how would we do that ? |
| 11 | ‘ But until we get the top players , we wo n't win promotion . |
| 12 | Those of us who now recognise it as immoral do so , not because we are compassionate , but because we recognise the equal rights of humans and the duties that follow from recognising those rights . |
| 13 | But since we got the national agreement in nineteen forty seven the same interest was n't in the trade union movement . |
| 14 | Because of his lucrative clothing and flamboyant style of play , it was possible to be unsure of his ability as a player , but since we had the good fortune to see Andrew at Wimbledon this year , many people now know what a truly talented and exciting man he really is . |
| 15 | I carried Rachel , and Margaret held on to me , and I hoped Tim would be hanging on to Mig , but when we reached the small steamer Tim was missing . |
| 16 | I 'd thought it was Dargaville but when we reached the small town of Warkworth , the name ‘ rang a bell ’ . |
| 17 | It 's , it 's already once cove covered the whole wall , but when we took the other fence down , the high fence eh , you know , they damaged everything . |
| 18 | They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily . |
| 19 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 20 | The wildfowl land here , but when we open the back door they tend to fly off . |
| 21 | Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join . |
| 22 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 23 | But as we said the other week th the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then is not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine . |
| 24 | But as we leave the twentieth century and reflect on the last 100 years , we should expect more than a shallow gallery of designer fancies . |
| 25 | But as we descend the evolutionary scale , and the human paradigm is more distantly evoked in the diffusive movements of fish , birds , and insects , we will be uncertain what to say . |
| 26 | But as we approach the far bank the hole seems to take more and more of the balls . |