Example sentences of "but [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 2 | But sooner or later the firm 's demand for investment capital would become so large that this demand could not be met at a fixed cost of capital and r would begin to rise . |
| 3 | You can lie and lie beautifully , but sooner or later the truth comes back like a wave and sweeps everything before it . |
| 4 | But sooner or later the need to use some aspect of statistics becomes obvious . |
| 5 | If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime . |
| 6 | They still , of course , have that function , but more and more the Fund 's resources are being invested in influencing those agencies which are capable of generating the much larger sums of money required to carry out these long-term programmes . |
| 7 | A tip , incidentally , that reminds us that the whodunit is by no means only a puzzle for the reader to solve before the author lets out the answer , but also and always a story . |
| 8 | Daniel Defoe describes the Fens shrouded in fog , through which nothing could be seen ‘ but now and then the lanthorn or cupola of Ely Minster ’ . |