Example sentences of "but [verb] [conj] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Royal Commission on Local Government in England preferred a unitary approach but recognised that this solution would not be appropriate throughout the country . |
2 | But remember that this change in the composition of assets came about because the borrower used his overdraft facility . |
3 | Many doctors ( myself included ) accept the association between moderate alcohol intake and reduced risk of heart disease , but question whether this association is actually causal . |
4 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
5 | The US Defence Department had provided on May 22 the approximate estimate that Iraqi military casualties had been around 100,000 dead , but warned that this estimate could be 50 per cent out either way . |
6 | ‘ Besides , I ca n't help but feel that this time next year all these girls will probably be for someone else . |
7 | They recognise that such arbitrary rules would result in some beneficial mergers being stopped , but argue that this sacrifice would be offset by the improvements in X-efficiency . |
8 | But to suppose that this picture bears the faintest resemblance to what the Labour leadership wants betrays something like paranoia cubed . |
9 | There may be other reasons why forward and expected future spot rates may not be equal ( for example , Frenkel and Razin ( 1980 ) show that stochastic prices may result in a divergence between the two , but admit that this effect is of little significance in practice ) . |
10 | He had not heard the question but hoped that this reply would serve . |
11 | But notice that this time the design area of the screen does not change colour , because you are not working with the main background colour . |