Example sentences of "but [det] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By what criteria do we judge that our conditioning in this century accords with the Divine will but that in the earlier generations does not ? ’ |
| 2 | The spray-painting on the wall came with the big double M in. ‘ 87 — Meltdown in the Market , which started on Wall Street — but some of the bigger houses and the banks were already letting people go . ’ |
| 3 | But some of the larger pavilions damage this fairytale impression . |
| 4 | Fortunately our CAA is doing its very best for all of us , but some of the smaller countries can outvote the UK , France and Germany and we together have more pilots than the rest . |
| 5 | Both are possibilities but some of the smaller cairns look as though they were thrown together by walkers while they were having their tea break . |
| 6 | But some of the younger dons were ecstatic about the election . |
| 7 | It has always been there — from the suffragettes to the Women 's Institute — but many of the older forms have become outmoded and new ones are needed which are relevant to the modern age . |
| 8 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 9 | It was July and still light , but most of the better-off inhabitants of this end of Sauchiehall Street were away for the summer . |
| 10 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |