Example sentences of "but [adv] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two men to exit from the following party were killed when their parachutes failed to open , but luckily the RAF dispatcher managed to stop the rest from jumping . |
| 2 | This is not the language meaning ( the words or syntax of the language ) but rather the message meaning or intended meaning of the speaker . |
| 3 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 4 | If an astronaut falls into a black hole , its mass will increase , but eventually the energy equivalent of that extra mass will be returned to the universe in the form of radiation . |
| 5 | The sit-in at Beishida ( shortened form of the university 's name ) caused some tension , but eventually the college principal promised to look into the matter . |
| 6 | But eventually the Edwards family moved down the road to run a residential home for the elderly ( which , when you think about it , was a logical step from caring for birds ! ) and the peregrine and various other injured birds needed new homes where they could receive the same amount of care and attention . |
| 7 | ‘ Members will be pleased that the Chancellor has not increased tax in this Budget , but will watch the impact of the tax increases proposed for 1994-95 and 1995-96 … we are pleased that tax on whisky is not to be raised , but perhaps the tax basis should be brought into line with tax on other alcoholic drinks , ’ said Andrew Moore , director of the chambers . |
| 8 | He believed he was as beautiful as ever when he looked into the glass , but perhaps the AIDS scare had stopped them picking up older men in bars . |
| 9 | ‘ But suddenly the sea bottom just dropped away and it was waist deep . |
| 10 | But suddenly the D word is being dropped in fashion ( left ) , in clubs , on records , reasserting a long rhythmic line that connects Barry White to Joey Negro , Sylvester to U2 . |
| 11 | The outputs for stereo and mono operation are separate , as I have already mentioned , but only the stereo side has been made available in both balanced and unbalanced forms ; the mono is exclusively unbalanced , which compromises Carvin 's ultra-flexibility stance somewhat . |
| 12 | Not only does BSL learning apparently take much longer ( ‘ beginners ’ were people with up to three years ' experience ) but only the beginner group showed the normal pattern of understanding being better than production . |
| 13 | The shift in winds as the international economy moved from the extravagant eighties to the uncharted nineties has been evident for sometime but only the master helmsman could have kept afloat until now . |
| 14 | The trip down would start off quietly for a while , everyone busily engaged in talking with friends , but soon the holiday spirit would prevail and after the first stop , singing would start , and then arriving at our destination , coaches to be unloaded , mountains of food carted on to the sands , and the task of enjoying oneself began . |
| 15 | At first the DES did not accept the need for such an inquiry , but soon the Cockcroft Committee was established , and they published their report under the title Mathematics Counts . |
| 16 | In some cases , such clearance was followed by soil deterioration , but elsewhere the soil structure was not adversely affected and rich green grasslands with shrubs eventually prevailed . |
| 17 | But already the Countryside Commission and the Nature Conservancy Council have drawn up a short list of natural sites suitable for World Heritage status . |
| 18 | ( This latter is adjustable from within the SETCREA program on the separate disk , but normally the default value is more than sufficient . |
| 19 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 20 | Students usually feel that listening to these unfamiliar voices chopped up into small pieces is hard work , but generally the transcription exercise is not found nearly as difficult as expected . |
| 21 | But generally the home defence were superbly marshalled by Kenny Rutherford . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose I might have ended up bowling up the hill into the wind at Headingley , and that might not have done much for my prospects , but generally the policy change was inevitable , and I am glad it happened . ’ |
| 23 | But tonight the Home office said there were no plans to change the law . |
| 24 | The drawing fee should include the fees for planning permission , if applicable ; and the Building Regulations full plans application ( but not the inspection fee ) . |
| 25 | Dr McGarry claimed Alliance had been snubbed by the US visitors and said : ‘ Mr Morrison 's credibility as a supposedly independent observer must be called into question when he finds it important to meet Sinn Fein , a party which appears to condone the murder of Irish people , but not the Alliance Party , the foremost advocate of peace . ’ |
| 26 | Addition of anti-peptide A , but not the preimmune serum , causes either a supershift and concomitant reduction in DRTF1a , b and c ( Fig. 2 b , antiserum 3 ; compare tracks 1 and 2 ) or abolishes all DRTF1 complexes ( Fig. 2 b , antiserum 4 ; compare tracks 5 and 6 ) . |
| 27 | But not the water gymnastics or the 5 o'clock jog for those who like it hot ! |
| 28 | But he needs cuts to announce on Wednesday — an end to some bizarre farm subsidies to anyone running cattle on federal land , or cuts in the super-collider programme , but not the space station . |
| 29 | See if I can find you a picture of a of a , I 've got a picture of a Roman legionnaire here but not the standard bearer . |
| 30 | You get the text but not the menu bar |