Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 2 | God knows what had possessed me to put my proper name on my real driving licence , but once it goes into the DVLC computer , it stays . |
| 3 | If it need it to share the cost of the new one but once it goes on the |
| 4 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 5 | But once you look at the £10 to £15 bracket , high street champagne is definitely a good deal more impressive . |
| 6 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 7 | But although they live on the edge of Wentworth Golf Course , Lady Haslam prefers gardening when at home . |
| 8 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 9 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 10 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 11 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 12 | But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 13 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 14 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 15 | I Obviously I ca n't preempt a discussion , but if we think on the evidence we see in in October that er that that is the course to take , we would do so . |
| 16 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |
| 17 | But if we begin with the assumption , say , that there is at least one star in the heavens that never has been , or ever will be , discovered or talked about , then evidently no meaningful let alone true singular proposition can be produced in support of such an assumption , for no such object can be named . |
| 18 | But if we look at the chemistry and other science portrayed in comics and illustrated periodicals , we can see an interesting shift in public attitudes over the past few decades . |
| 19 | But if we look at the air conditioning explanations we we reckon that the conditions likely to lead to sickness and , and the related illnesses that were mentioned er was , the low humidity that that we thought might er , be in the area erm , because it dries out the and enables viruses to enter the body more more easily . |
| 20 | This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made . |
| 21 | But if we retreat from the notion of perfect reliability and require only that the method be generally reliable , we invite sceptical arguments of our second type . |
| 22 | But if we start from the conception of the rational man who disciplines his spontaneity by an awareness independent of viewpoint , then it is for the egoist to explain why he claims priority for responses from his own viewpoint . |
| 23 | If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you . |
| 24 | ‘ But if they play with the same commitment and determination , against Villa at Highbury , I 'll be satisfied . ’ |
| 25 | Accidents can and do happen , but if something happens to the horse , however minor , tell the owner — do n't let her find out that it has overreached or whatever , when she next looks at her horse . |
| 26 | But if I run through the addresses I think it 'll make sense because everybody will recognize where they are . |
| 27 | But if he springs for the Savoy , he 's going to want to try out the stuff he saw in Swedish Au Pairs Get Raunchy . ’ |
| 28 | The son was cross ; but if he thought of the possibility of keeping his own salary for himself , he never voiced it . |
| 29 | ‘ But if he gets into the Southampton match he 'll just have to cope . ’ |
| 30 | But if he comes to the top of the ridge , he is sure to come down here , because he w ill see the green leaves . |