Example sentences of "but [art] germans " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we make ourselves the bar , if we suggest that self-determination is the right of every people on earth but the Germans , we risk creating resentments in Germany which could be quite as destabilising to the European order as reunification . |
| 2 | With temperatures reaching 80$degree ; F , several teams dropped men through heat exhaustion , but the Germans ( 263 Parachute Battalion ) managed a very quick time and dropped only three shots on the range . |
| 3 | But the Germans admired them for their toughness and energy and in 1898 persuaded Britain , which then ran Bougainville , to swap the island for some German possessions elsewhere in the Pacific . |
| 4 | As the poet Heine put it in 1844 in ‘ A Winter 's Tale ’ , the land belongs to the French and the Russians , the sea to the British , but the Germans ‘ are the unchallenged rulers of the kingdom of dreams . ’ |
| 5 | But the Germans went and got him . ’ |
| 6 | Towards the end , Horthy tried to extricate the country from the impending shambles , but the Germans occupied it in March 1944 and , in any case , the Allies were no longer sympathetic . |
| 7 | The IBM team spent 22 hours writing their letters , but the Germans take only milliseconds to create each trimer . |
| 8 | But the Germans had paratroopers so the British had no alternative . |
| 9 | Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation . |
| 10 | But the Germans did not relent ; indeed the height of their efforts came in the years 1900–9 . |
| 11 | He is aiming at 100 stores , has added extra warehousing space and has even ( briefly ) considered expanding into eastern Europe , an idea he has since gone cool on : ‘ I was interested in Prague , but the Germans seem to have taken over . ’ |
| 12 | They reached their boat , but the Germans were there before them and Gus March-Phillips was killed along with three others . |
| 13 | How many Russian soldiers were killed or later perished from their wounds in the dark glades of the forest is not precisely known , but the Germans took prisoner 92,000 unwounded men , some 30,000 wounded and 500 guns . |
| 14 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 15 | But the Germans were quicker than any of us . |
| 16 | ‘ You probably do n't know , ’ he said , ‘ but the Germans have no plans for the political prisoners . |
| 17 | But the Germans were all Nazis ! |
| 18 | The traffic was heavier now but the Germans were disciplined to respect a fast-moving car . |
| 19 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |