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Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well she 's only got two , but she entertains about five others .
2	But she sits there all night flat as a shadow on the wall and there is music and celebration and other people dancing .
3	But she does about two pound of root ginger .
4	Such a restructuring of the education system is something that Warnock ( 1988 ) points to as being long overdue , but she makes only fleeting references to the implications that this might have for special needs .
5	Paula , aged twenty-three in 1945 and working for the Worcester Brass Company in Birmingham , had no hesitation in sticking up for herself : The report adds : ‘ Paula is living a very bright life with plenty of entertainment and dancing , but she knows how many beans make five ! ,
6	With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’
7	With this particular letter I can not say why he chose not to , but he receives so many letters that he can not physically respond to all of them . ’
8	Some call him a good bread-and-butter player , but he has not apparent weaknesses .
9	Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Slaven was not picked tonight but he has as much chance as any other player of playing at Tranmere on Friday night .
10	He may be great in the eyes of the world , with his property and wealth , but he has very few friends to attend his funeral and never achieves the only thing he cares about .
11	Lloyds runs a similar scheme but it involves just one institution .
12	But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow .
13	This calculation may look cumbersome , but it takes very little time and provides record storage positions very effectively .
14	On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example .
15	The council tax is related to the number of people in a house , but it offers more generous treatment for people such as students , who will not add to the household bill .
16	You get a pension of course but it depends how many years
17	They say lightning never strikes twice but it does when old Shallot 's around .
18	The House of Lords may be the highest court in the land , but it hears comparatively few appeals each year .
19	but it says here nominal input twenty five watts R M S here it says maximum what forty watts
20	This process can sometimes weaken the pile fibres , but it produces extremely attractive shades of muted red and rose .
21	The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) .
22	But it requires more crude oil than ‘ normal ’ petrol .
23	It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food .
24	It requires more of a person , but it gives back more self-satisfaction .
25	Art therapy can be of immense value to some Disabled people , as it is to some non-Disabled people , but it has not intrinsic link to Disability and offers no solution to the problem as Disabled people perceive it .
26	This may not be a totally convincing critique of modern society , but it has clear modern relevance and is more than mere dislike .
27	But it has so much scope to go further .
28	Our Sun ‘ loses ’ 4 million tons of mass this way every second — but it has so much mass to play with that this rate of mass loss would only add up to 7 per cent of the total after about a trillion ( million million ) years .
29	The Amiga also has a Motorola 68000 , 512K , a built-in 3.5 inch disc drive and a mouse , but it has much better colour graphics and sound .
30	This may sound somewhat grand but it has very down-to-earth aspects , such as indicating what is possible and realistic and what tasks are long and short term .