Example sentences of "but [prep] [verb] these [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The answer lay not in trying to play down the search for glory in war , but in channelling these energies towards the service of the king who represented the public good and honour of a nation or people . |
2 | But before accepting these equations it is important to ask both whether they are well-founded , and whether they are a means to a better understanding of the relatively specific problem of holism . |
3 | But before investigating these opportunities and constraints it is necessary to outline what one takes ‘ socialist objectives ’ to be , in broad terms . |
4 | But before describing these categories it is valuable to consider the meaning of style . |
5 | But by integrating these theories with their version of structural linguistics , they developed them in a very important direction : they placed them within a semiotic or semiological framework , semiotics and semiology being to all intents and purposes interchangeable terms . |