Example sentences of "but [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no difference between colleges and institutes , but that between the polytechnics and the colleges/institutes is largely a matter of the scale and level of provision — polytechnics tend to be larger , and provide more high level courses , including some postgraduate ones . |
| 2 | Now that may not be the best way to have structured it , but some of the checks that we 're imposing at the moment are not necessary to put on paper . |
| 3 | You do n't cos you do n't get all these things but Christine has the New Scientist every week and I do n't know why it 's always us , but you wan na read that sometimes , I do n't read a lot cos I do n't understand it but some of the things that some of the countries are doing and yet it 's always us . |
| 4 | It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive . |
| 5 | Details of the experiments themselves do not concern us here , but some of the ideas that have emerged from them are of interest because they add further to our understanding of how , looked at from a biological perspective , creativity can be connected to psychosis . |
| 6 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 7 | We are still far from the " permissive society " which is fantasised alike by the prurient and the repressive ; but many of the taboos and at least a part of the secrecy and guilt feeling which surrounded sexual considerations in the earlier lifetime of many people have gone . |
| 8 | Most of the experience described has been gained from the mouse but many of the techniques and applications are equally suitable for other mammals , including man . |
| 9 | It was true that the marchers were outnumbered but many of the men and women attending the rally had merely bought tickets for the show rather than as a gesture of commitment to Mosley . |
| 10 | But most of the changes that did occur took place over 1950–70 ; since the latter year there appears to have been little change in the relative positions of the different republics and provinces in social product per head . |
| 11 | People who were familiar with computers ( terminals to the Polytechnic network for example ) or with LlBERTAS generally found LlBERTAS easier to use ; they often found Okapi 's coloured keys more difficult than LIBERTAS 's mnemonic commands ( LIBERTAS is not what most people would understand by a command-driven system , but most of the choices and options are single letters or words like BACK , and these have to be followed by pressing the RETURN key ) . |
| 12 | His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party . |
| 13 | But most of the ions and electrons are deflected , and of the few which penetrate most do so up the magnetotail . |
| 14 | But most of the problems that we get are not caused by deliberate cheating , they 're caused by genuine mistakes . |
| 15 | Not only is Windows itself configurable , but most of the applications that we use under Windows can also be tailored to your own tastes . |