Example sentences of "but they [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 2 | But they vehemently oppose the kind of expenditure that helps the underclass . |
| 3 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 4 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 5 | The comedy in ‘ Hamlet ’ comes mainly from the scenes involving Hamlet 's mockery of the foolish Polonius ; and the gravediggers in Act V , Scene I. These scenes do indeed provide comic relief for the audience ; but they also show the way in which Hamlet vents his feelings ( Polonius ) and the fragility of life ( Gravediggers ) . |
| 6 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 7 | But they also offered a sense of the new . |
| 8 | The homicides and postmortems in the book permit the new religion of science to exercise its power : but they also occasion the necrophile broodings which exude from Dyer . |
| 9 | These doubts will be considered more fully in Chapter 9 but they also raise the prospect of a radically different future . |
| 10 | ‘ They did , Michael , but they also liked the fact that our cellars connected with next door , which connected with next door to that , which I believe led out to the East River . ’ |
| 11 | The 1970 treaties with Russia and Poland included the mutual renunciation of force but they also marked an acceptance of the status quo in Europe ( including Germany 's division ) and of the Oder-Neisse border . |
| 12 | But they also reduce the flow of information through that node . |
| 13 | The social contract theories are a metaphysical fiction to explain the origins of society , but they also create the mythology that human beings are essentially innocent . |
| 14 | Most are attracted by the splendour of the city 's colleges , but they also prove a magnet for organised crime . |
| 15 | But they also used the opportunity to make a desperate plea in the columns of this newspaper for information about the murder . |
| 16 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 17 | Lindsey argued that the tax cuts were not only incentive creating but they also increased the cost of tax avoidance . |
| 18 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 19 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |
| 20 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 21 | These are all justified by the dramatic context Orpheus 's happiness as he sings to the shepherds , his effort to impress Charon , his triumph as he marches off to fetch Eurydice — but they also gave the audience music to remember . |
| 22 | Money , wealth and profit have a legitimacy in a Christian world-view : but they also carry a danger . |
| 23 | Those who supported the document accepted that economic reform could not be realized without an integrated market , but they also urged the strengthening of the state role in fiscal , monetary , tax and foreign relations policy ; while they were not against private ownership they favoured state ownership in industries which were of " economic interest " . |
| 24 | Not on , not only do they wee on the carpet but they also have a tendency to try and avoid , cover it up |
| 25 | But they also have a right to the love , support and long-term commitment that their families are usually best able to provide . |
| 26 | Not only are foreign programmes often better made , but they also have the allure , real or imagined , of being sophisticated or trendy . |
| 27 | But they also have the possibility of taking a spectacular minor road which branches off to the left , ie south , at Wiggen . |
| 28 | Creams and ointments containing corticosteroids , because of their powerful anti-inflammatory action , can lessen the symptoms considerably but they also have the effect of damping down the body 's natural defence and , in theory , could lead to the spread of the infection , with potentially fatal results in a primary attack when there is no natural immunity at all . |
| 29 | They not only provide the matter for intellectual activity — facts , knowledge , range of probabilities , and so on — but they also have the quality of ‘ encouraging reflective thought and awareness of the processes of the mind ’ ( Donaldson , 1975 , p. 106 ) . |
| 30 | Not only does the increased frequency of pollution hazes in rural and wilderness areas cause dissatisfaction and loss of amenity to many , but they also have the potential for affecting global climate ( refer to section 2.1 ) . |