Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Urwin recognizes that dominant ideas of good motherhood appeal to women 's fantasies , but she endorses feminist prescriptiveness about maternity when she pictures these fantasies as mainly pernicious and restricting . |
| 2 | She 's getting on now , but she takes good notice of whatever anyone says . |
| 3 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 4 | But she emphasizes cross-cultural similarities in women 's nurturant roles . |
| 5 | But she starts proper school in September . |
| 6 | But he pours cold water on the notion of some 1992 explosion of new business in Europe . |
| 7 | But he denies any law of evolution ; the regularity in synchronic linguistics is not a result of evolutionary continuity . |
| 8 | But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election . |
| 9 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 10 | But he knows all kinds of People over there and he 's getting me what I need . |
| 11 | But he has strong views on the monarchy , which he was quick to express in the House of Commons on the announcement of the Prince and Princess of Wales 's separation . |
| 12 | There 's a good place in Ealing — well it 's a chipper really , but he has good steaks at any time you want them . |
| 13 | But he has good cause for fear — his dad was gunned to death in the street there only three years ago . |
| 14 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 15 | Mandela requested a judicial commission of inquiry to investigate the source of the violence , telling officials of the Transkei government in Umtata on Sept. 28 : " I can say without questioning the integrity of President de Klerk that he himself is serious about making changes in South Africa , but he has serious problems with his constituency . " |
| 16 | But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down . |
| 17 | Almost certainly , he has a weak visual memory , and so any teaching should aim to help him to strengthen that ; but he has some difficulty with the auditory side , too . |
| 18 | But he has some news of where she might be , and he continues north in his motor car , still looking for her . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's a funny old goat , ’ the pilot said , ‘ but he has more goodness in him than the rest of the city put together . |
| 20 | But he sees this foundationalist as a weak-kneed sceptic , who ought in consistency to go further ; who ought , in fact , to doubt whether he understands the proposition that other minds exist , and so ought to be a solipsist . |
| 21 | Business is tough at the moment , but he loves this time of year , lambing is his favourite time and he 's a really good shepherd . |
| 22 | He accepts that law is ‘ relatively autonomous ’ of the economy , but he finds little use for the ‘ base/superstructure metaphor ’ , rejecting what he sees as Althusser 's rigid division of social formations into different ‘ instances ’ or ‘ levels ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 24 | But he wants firmer guarantees on the status of the Hungarian minority , in particular , group rights rather than individual rights for all Romanians . |
| 25 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
| 26 | This has the advantage of relating expenditure to sales , but it discourages innovative approaches to advertising expenditure and does not allow for distinctions to be made between products or sales territories . |
| 27 | But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact . |
| 28 | It probably means that the average family is a much more relaxed affair than the traditional Scottish household used to be , but it goes some way towards explaining the numbers of children at risk in our society from adults outside the home , as well as from their own undisciplined emotions . |
| 29 | But it ignores social changes like the increase in the numbers of educated women , the decline in domestic help and the development of job and life expectations . |
| 30 | But it creates certain incongruities in his character . ’ |