Example sentences of "[pron] but [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often critics attacked the craze for Gothic architecture not because it was wrong in itself but because the mediaeval arrangement , as opposed to mere decoration , was not suitable to a religion based on preaching , not on eucharistic sacrifice . |
| 2 | His gallops have always impressed me but after a couple of disappointing runs on the flat his attentions were turned to the all-weather surfaces . |
| 3 | For a second I was mesmerised by the chasm before me but as the only way I was going to fall was it I made the effort to jump , I realised that I was actually enjoying the thrill of imagined danger . |
| 4 | At first he kept saying that housekeeping was a piece of cake and that women made a big fuss about nothing but since the washing machine broke down he has n't said that . |
| 5 | explain that story at the end , was so fond of dragons that he adorned with drawings and carvings of them but when a real dragon heard of his infatuation |
| 6 | Miss Chalmers is a keen holiday-goer herself but while the viewers over Christmas will be seeing her in Mauritius , she says : ‘ I 'll be wrapped up warmly at home in London . ’ |
| 7 | Normally we 'd be talking about him but because the tape recorder 's on |
| 8 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 9 | In the process area , there have been major developments in catalysts for polypropylene manufacture and in the technology for making chlorine and also ammonia — both very mature products indeed on the face of it but where the story has by no means ended , even after a century . |
| 10 | ‘ I built the business up after I bought it but as the City went down everything else went down with it , ’ mourns Haddad , who spent £600,000 buying and refurbishing Le Gamin . |
| 11 | If the lavatory is inaccessible , down a corridor , or dark and cold , the child may be reluctant to use it but if the parent accompanies the child and waits , he or she can gradually learn confidence . |
| 12 | Erm I mean I I do n't see it but if the opportunity came along I think it would be invidious to have a policy which er only allowed those exceptions in certain districts . |
| 13 | It appeared that when this alliance of powerful forces realized that some legalistic gloss over their environmental vandalism was necessary or desirable , not because they wanted it but because the public were increasingly becoming aware of pollution , they actively encouraged the legislature to formulate a bill which created the illusion of controlling corporations . |
| 14 | Finnis , on behalf of Aquinas , would doubtless be disposed to argue that Kelsen admits and he excludes any content whatever but if the general requirements of justice are indeed so indeterminate as to allow of even contradictory determinations then this objection falls . |
| 15 | He looked sheepish as Herts scored Martin was anything but as the goal stood . |