Example sentences of "but [indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays , it is rather more garish , a popular halt for coaches , but nothing can detract from the superb views over the rocky coast and lovely sands , the road serving as a promenade . |
| 2 | But nothing could compare with the two universal sex-symbols of the decade , Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot . |
| 3 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 4 | Obviously , there are other pricing schemes a firm could employ , but none would seem on the face of it to be as compelling as the ones we have discussed here . |
| 5 | But everything will change after the wedding , she told herself . |
| 6 | Little has been written on the subject since then , but one may infer from the few remarks that are made on it that psychologists are no longer so impressed by ‘ the insuperable logical difficulty ’ James believed there to be in the way of saying that the difference between sensations may be one of ‘ place pure and simple ’ . |
| 7 | Voltaire 's work is , arguably , offensive but one should err on the side of allowing it to be available . |