Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is a little short but she has these other advantages . |
| 2 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 3 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |
| 4 | I 'm sure he would , but he has that greater degree of influence because of who he is . |
| 5 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 6 | ‘ He may be the world 's most tedious teacher and its driest personality , but he has one admirable quality : he is totally honest . |
| 7 | He may have the friendship of the Prime Minister , but he has few other Cabinet supporters . |
| 8 | But he has 2.7 million Sinton , Xmillion rated Hirst ( 4 ? ) , 3 million rated Warhurst … had Waddle been playing , if so its even funnier . |
| 9 | But he has some real power . |
| 10 | We have only Gough to guide us on this , but he has some amazing tales to tell . |
| 11 | But he faces some powerful competitors . |
| 12 | The only ones who might qualify are Ian Woosnam and Sam Torrance , but he wears such baggy trousers that it is difficult to see . |
| 13 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 14 | It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner . |
| 15 | The American basswood body has some obvious Telecaster influences , but it sports three custom-wound DiMarzio Q-100 pickups , a single tone and a single volume control , a 5-position pickup selector switch and a Floyd-Rose licensed locking tremolo system . |
| 16 | But it achieves this solid reliability at the expense of productivity . |
| 17 | But it replicates egalitarian feminist psychology 's over-attachment to certainty , and to closed , self-sufficient explanatory systems . |
| 18 | ‘ But it says such shocking things ! ’ |
| 19 | But it seems this other relation has inherited his whole fortune . |
| 20 | This final scene of the novel leaves the reader free to believe , if he so wishes , that Pip and Estella will eventually marry , but it seems clear that CD 's intention was that we should understand that Pip 's renewed hopes were not to be fulfilled . |
| 21 | It will consist of waste sent to the Sellafield reprocessing plant , Much of the waste is of the low-level variety , but it includes 10,000 cubic metres of medium-level waste , and 80 cubic metres of high-level waste . |
| 22 | Here 's a lovely winter scene but it contains ten deliberate mistakes . |
| 23 | Flying a new type of glider is always fun , but it worries many inexperienced pilots : there is always an extra element of risk if an unexpected situation occurs on the first flight in an unfamiliar machine . |
| 24 | The task is immense , painfully long-term and difficult to ‘ sell ’ , but it has one great merit as a grounding for optimism : there is no alternative , no quick fix . |
| 25 | ‘ But it has one enormous advantage over Bedfordshire Comprehensive . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Not as laid back as LA , say , nor as vibrant as New York , but it has that curious mixture of the two that outsiders , as well as Dubliners , are drawn to . |
| 27 | This is much smaller and less pretentious , but it has good geometrical window tracery above a ground floor arcade . |
| 28 | It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north , but it has many small livestock farmers as well . |
| 29 | Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc . |
| 30 | Bay 's chief scented ; leaves used in potpourri use is in cooking , but it has some medical value also . |