Example sentences of "but [adv] [vb base] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police have questioned two male passengers of the car but still want the driver to come forward . |
| 2 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
| 3 | The ordinary shares will not provide the management with a fixed dividend , but usually carry the right to participate pari passu with the holders of the preferred ordinary shares in any additional dividends which may be declared in any year after the fixed and/or participating dividends on the preference shares and preferred ordinary shares have been paid . |
| 4 | Both companies have already shipped versions of the software , but both see the need to improve performance . |
| 5 | But both have a score to settle with the Wallabies . |
| 6 | Neither a system of documentation nor a local bridging arrangement can change the national requirement but both have the opportunity to adjust to and to accommodate local preferences , strengths and developments of the curriculum . |
| 7 | The certificate of search conveniently gives both the date at which the search was made , and the date on which the period of priority will expire — and note , again , that to have the protection of that priority you must not only complete your purchase or mortgage , but also lodge the application to register the transaction ( LR form A4 or A5 ) within the priority period — hence the virtue of the procedure for effecting registration when there is unavoidable delay mentioned above . |
| 8 | These amendments are a response not only to the recent EEC Directive on Coordinating the Regulation of Insider Dealing in Member States , but also represent an attempt to remedy certain perceived defects in the current legislation . |
| 9 | You can certainly have a read but please resist the temptation to write on it . |
| 10 | This presents gaps in the text which surprise at first , but then allow the imagination to intervene and to draw on the richness and depth of the images to fill the spaces with one 's own interpretation . |
| 11 | In packed decimal format the right-hand four bits of the least-significant byte do not hold a digit , but instead hold a pattern to represent the sign of the number . |
| 12 | But never mind no time to worry about things like that . |