Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courses in Accountancy and European and Human Rights Law are being set up and it is hoped that as many pupils as possible will attend them , but for economic reasons it has been decided not to make them compulsory this year . |
| 2 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 3 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 4 | Periodically he returned to his Australian roots , but for long periods he worked in the UK . |
| 5 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 6 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 7 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 8 | But for larger events you have to ‘ sell ’ them — metaphorically if not literally . |
| 9 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |
| 10 | Even then he could have been saved , so the story goes , if the giantess Thokk had agreed to shed life-giving tears for him , but for unspecified reasons she refused . |
| 11 | For Iranians he was charismatic , but for most foreigners he seemed rather strange . |
| 12 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
| 13 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
| 14 | But for some variables we do , and some economists have used the available data to carry out these tests of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 15 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 16 | You can see how much it hurts her to visualise what happened , but through stifled sobs she continues . |
| 17 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 18 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 19 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 20 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 21 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
| 22 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 23 | Figure 3.4 At birth , herring gull chicks will peck equally at models of adult bills of either herring or laughing gulls ; but after seven days they have developed a preference for the model of the adult of their own species . |
| 24 | For a few horrible moments I thought the motor would n't fire , but after several pulls it caught , then I just hooked my overnight bag over one shoulder , took the tiller and made for the shore , which looked so close that I felt I could have swum across . ’ |
| 25 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 26 | Gordon Beck , spokesman for the Anthony Nolan Research Centre , said : ‘ The relationship between donor and patient is confidential but after 12 months we allow correspondence and we pass on messages from both sides . |
| 27 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Dalmatian cities changed hands many times , but despite these upheavals they enjoyed long periods of prosperity and their commerce and their arts flourished . |
| 28 | ‘ People who have n't seen my ( early ) movies are better off than I am … but like all actors I needed the work . |
| 29 | ‘ Plans fail for lack of counsel , but with many advisers they succeed . ‘ |
| 30 | Er Aaron can put his other gloves on , but with those ones they seemed to take twice as long to put on |