Example sentences of "but officials " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 2 | Some of the farms put under restrictions yesterday have already supplied milk for public consumption , but officials were confident there had been no threat to health . |
| 3 | But officials deny that this is their aim . |
| 4 | But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators . |
| 5 | The wall of molten lava has come to a virtual halt 150 yards from the first home in the town , but officials said yesterday that its flow appeared to have picked up speed further up the slope . |
| 6 | But officials will not rate the survival chances above 50 per cent until a month after birth . |
| 7 | But officials at both the DES and the HSE want to turn it into a specialist advisory group to the HSE . |
| 8 | DEC says it has no plans to offer a similar personality for its OpenVMS operating system , but officials at the company 's ‘ Unified Unix ’ briefing a couple of weeks ago admitted it would be ‘ good marketing hype . ’ |
| 9 | But officials cautioned against reading too much into the statistics . |
| 10 | Speaking on his return to Seoul on Oct. 25 , Chung Won Shik spoke of a " small breakthrough " and " a sort of success " , but officials stressed that there would be " acute " problems in achieving a final agreement . |
| 11 | Many of the returnees resisted , and had to be carried on to the aircraft by police amidst scuffles , but officials said that " minimum compulsion " had been used , in contrast to the violence which had marked the only previous forced repatriation attempt in December 1989 [ see p. 37121-22 ] . |
| 12 | But officials deny they 've been keeping their proposals under wraps . |
| 13 | But officials admit some livestock has simply disappear after coming into the country . |
| 14 | But officials say this was unconnected and that now the situation is calm . |
| 15 | But officials said that , despite the small drop in net lending to consumers , the overall trend continued to show an increase . |
| 16 | But officials refused to hand over the dog until they vetted Mia in person to ensure she was suitable to have custody of the dog . |
| 17 | ‘ But officials in the Department of Trade and Industry did try to intervene . |
| 18 | The two sides have given different interpretations of the accord , but officials on both sides have confirmed the broad terms of an agreement to a transitional government of national unity . |
| 19 | But officials said last night no decisions had been reached as part of Government plans to provide 200 secure places for young criminals . |
| 20 | The Foreign Office is trying to play down the row but officials concede it could be some time before both sides talk again . |
| 21 | PLANS for a hotel and leisure development at Bodelwyddan Castle are moving ahead , but officials face strong opposition to part of the package . |