Example sentences of "but [noun pl] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So seven minutes of the game gone and a mistake by Andy Melville letting in Gary Lineker , but Spurs take a short corner . |
| 2 | But shareholders get a bigger dividend . |
| 3 | But Jews know a good thing when they taste it and alighted on the herring because it was inexpensive , piquant , nutritious and versatile . |
| 4 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 5 | KMT liberals supported a direct election , but conservatives advocated a complicated proxy system . |
| 6 | Usually , an initial charge is only payable on managed funds , but managers charge an annual management fee on both managed and individual classes . |
| 7 | But things grew a great deal worse as the century wore on . |
| 8 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 9 | But logs have a vital role to play in data analysis , providing one of the most useful ways of re-expressing data that straggles upwards . |
| 10 | But doctors say a smaller chair could n't take her body weight . |
| 11 | And at the moment no one is prepared to give evidence against the driver of the truck … but police hope an increased reward of forty thousand pounds may change a few minds . |
| 12 | No one has claimed responsibility , but police suspect a foreign group acting with help from local criminals . |
| 13 | These cases hardly ever go to court , but publishers have a long record of paying up and shutting up . |
| 14 | Some volcanoes produce only one kind of rock during their entire lives , but others show an impressive diversity . |
| 15 | Some of these include the necessary transformer in the fitting , but others require a separate transformer and some heavy-duty wiring . |
| 16 | Many remained in the London Road End , but others established a new piece of territory at the other end of the ground where it was cheaper . |
| 17 | Evidence at the coroner 's court should have given him little confidence in the outcome , but events took an upward turn when Marion Lindo stepped into the witness box . |
| 18 | But shares staged a spirited rally an hour before the close and the FT-SE roared to a new all-time peak of 2792.0 a whisker below the magical 2800 level . |
| 19 | But firemen rescued an Alsatian dog from the kitchen of the house , in Hamstead Road , Wallasey , as the flames took hold . |