Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [noun] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for good measure we added extra benefits to ensure that the policy is right for the risks that householders face today . |
| 2 | Batty could fill in Fairclough 's role … but for specific games we might have to leave one of the midfielders out , as Fairclough is superb with specific man-marking jobs . |
| 3 | If we get sufficiently close , the experience can be memorable , but for high drama we need to summon our courage to enter the cluster . |
| 4 | But for some variables we do , and some economists have used the available data to carry out these tests of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 5 | My father 's great , but for some reason we have an abrasive effect on each other in a crisis . |
| 6 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |
| 7 | I was only in that post for two years , but during that period we closed a lot of works . |
| 8 | ‘ But after that show we might have deserved the points . ’ |
| 9 | Gordon Beck , spokesman for the Anthony Nolan Research Centre , said : ‘ The relationship between donor and patient is confidential but after 12 months we allow correspondence and we pass on messages from both sides . |
| 10 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 11 | But of one thing we can be certain : karate has something for everyone . |
| 12 | But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit . |
| 13 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 14 | It seems quite innocent to talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ , but with such talk we blind ourselves to what really matters . |
| 15 | When the idea of teleworking first came up , there was a fear of poor pay and long hours , but with this scheme we are looking at proper terms and conditions . |
| 16 | Sadie would n't accept any of the various titbits I had brought with me , but with patient coaxing we made it home eventually . |
| 17 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 18 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 19 | Surely , one could argue , it can only be recognized by knowledge of some convention that U means z ; but in that case we can do away with talk of complex intentions and construct an account of communication based directly on the notion of conventional signal . |
| 20 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 21 | But in one area we take a pride in being stubbornly traditional . |
| 22 | In certain parts of the country tuition and facilities are extremely good , but in other parts we require to develop . |
| 23 | They 're faster and stronger but in other ways we 're as good as them |
| 24 | But in embryonic wounds we do not see lamellipodia . |
| 25 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 26 | There is certainly a good argument that in some situations shellac would not be an adequately strong finish , but in this case we had a fine table with a burr walnut surface which should be treated with a certain amount of care and respect in general use . |
| 27 | Note that the average is surprisingly low for the year 1300 ( at the top of the graph ) ; but in this year we know of complaints from the king that the dies were of poor quality and made of soft metal |
| 28 | ‘ We want our own state , we want our flag , ’ said a museum curator , ‘ but in this situation we can not plan anything . |
| 29 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 30 | The latter may provide a good approximation to actual savings behaviour , but in this section we consider for purposes of contrast the rather different approach based on individual life-cycle savings decisions , discussed at some length in Lecture 3 . |