Example sentences of "but [indef pn] [vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But nothing seems to stem the decline of engineering
2 Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has .
3 People around here have taken it up with different parties but everyone seems to pass the buck .
4 The number of individual insects in the world seems beyond any computation , but someone has made the attempt and concluded that at any one time , there must be something of the order of one thousand million thousand million .
5 Tasty maybe but nobody has mentioned the smell .
6 But one has to remember the difficulties , in practical terms , of introducing genuinely new ideas into education , an area bound to be in part wedded to tradition and the conservation of the old .
7 But one has to state the facts as one sees them .
8 But everybody 's allowed a mistake but
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