Example sentences of "[to-vb] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This criticism not easy to meet but perhaps the best argument available comes from the experiment described last . |
| 2 | There 's nothing worse to come but just a different perspective which will probably put this whole thing into a new light . ’ |
| 3 | It gives but a flavour of what has gone before and what is to come but how the appetite was whetted . |
| 4 | He could remember minute details of planes he had helped to design but not the names of people with whom he worked . |
| 5 | Bill goes behind Doug to help but suddenly the line slackens , and flutters in the wind . |
| 6 | ‘ I would like to help but then the business is not entirely in my hands . |
| 7 | By ‘ crisis ’ , the head of cultural affairs means not only the need to economise but also the fragility of the administrative structure . |
| 8 | She was expecting to be pinned down by a concentrated bout of gunfire to give the German a chance to retreat but instead the second sniper swung his FN FAL on the unsuspecting German and gunned him down . |
| 9 | First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming . |
| 10 | A good run and cross from Michael O'Neill left Hughes in the clear with not even the goalkeeper to beat but somehow the little winger managed to put the ball wide of the target . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Labour 's devolution scheme would create a puppet parliament still under the thumb of the UK Treasury , with the power to legislate but not the money to implement . |