Example sentences of "but we [vb base] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know that the gill lamellae in a lamprey develop medially to the supporting skeleton , whereas the gills of a gnathostome develop laterally to the skeleton . |
| 2 | We might think that majority rule is the fairest workable decision procedure in politics , but we know that the majority will sometimes , perhaps often , make unjust decisions about the rights of individuals . |
| 3 | But we know that the reformulation may never reduce or dilute the content of experience which it interprets " ( Taylor 1978 : 12 ) . |
| 4 | The champagne went down very well on the night the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's appeal substantially failed , but we fear that the hangover from this report may last rather longer . |
| 5 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 6 | We can agree that the city does not always look good , that mistakes have been made in its redevelopment , but we emphasise that the picture of the city is not as bad as it is painted . |
| 7 | We are seven , but we think that the war is not necessary . |
| 8 | Civilian populations may not be attacked as such , but we recognise that the co-location of military targets and civilians may make unavoidable certain injury to civilians . |
| 9 | We will encourage home ownership , but we recognise that the housing market has been distorted by mortgage tax relief , and we believe that choice in housing means providing more rented accommodation in both public and private sectors . |
| 10 | Recent SV gives no guide as to what then happens in the Northern Hemisphere , but we suppose that the flux is first eliminated and then reversed by northward migration of the equatorial patch . |
| 11 | Therefore , there is no conflict between commercial viability or motivation and safety , but we believe that the security of the installations and of those who work in them should be a legitimate purpose of the Bill and the provisions in clause 5 . |
| 12 | This was sad , but we believe that the figure could have been nearer 1,500 . ’ |
| 13 | The legal unit will keep groups informed as necessary , but we expect that no action will need to be taken by existing recognised groups in any case . |