Example sentences of "but [adv] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reluctantly they headed away into the darkness and made the rendezvous rather late , but luckily the patrol had waited for them . |
| 2 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 3 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 4 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |
| 5 | There are a few songs but mostly the show follows the stand-up format . |
| 6 | As I say , I did n't trouble Stu and Gillie about my career hiccup : a trouble shared is not , in my experience , a trouble halved , but rather a trouble broadcast on the mighty tannoy of gossip . |
| 7 | It 's asking a good deal , but rather a lot depends on it . ’ |
| 8 | Yet , at the same time , there has not , in most cases , been a sharp break between one way of life and another but rather a process involving subtle shifts in emphasis , whereby one set of relationships — kin , friends and neighbours — take on new significances in place of or in addition to older or earlier established relationships . |
| 9 | Saddam is not an alien monster , a monster against modernity , but rather a monster born of modernity , a monster within modernity . |
| 10 | It is thus a defence to show that the reason for the alleged act of discrimination was not the plaintiff 's disability but rather an inability to perform the work in question . |
| 11 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 12 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 13 | And it 's not a case of , we become sinners because we sin , but rather the bible teaches us , we sin because we are sinners ! |
| 14 | The greatest obstacle to the acceptance of the drift hypothesis was not so much the nature of this supporting evidence ( although alternative explanations were readily proffered ) but rather the failure to find a convincing mechanism by which it could occur . |
| 15 | Work design does not reflect the imperatives of technology , but rather the need to control employees whose interests are in conflict with employers . |
| 16 | This agreement was renewed four times , the last in 1515 , but eventually the company had to be released from its responsibility on grounds of poverty . |
| 17 | The unforgiving finger of fate always seemed to single out Frank Haffey but eventually the fall-guy had his day . |
| 18 | There 's a fearful row , but eventually the woman does come . |
| 19 | Tugging at these I found them fairly firmly embedded , but eventually the mud yielded up a length of chain with the most beautiful padlock on the end of it . |
| 20 | But slowly the penny started to drop . |
| 21 | ‘ But presumably the Commander does n't think she ran away ? |
| 22 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 23 | But perhaps the child does n't have the skill or experience to do it alone . |
| 24 | Many will not argue with Stern 's wish to ‘ uplift ’ through entertainment architecture , but perhaps the presentation calls for inquiry . |
| 25 | But perhaps the government has a fifth , and this one will prevail . |
| 26 | This land did not belong to the Ikhwan , but perhaps the secretary thought to confer an aura of legitimacy on the grant by getting the consent of the erstwhile administrators of it . |
| 27 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 28 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |
| 29 | But basically a gilt has got a fixed rate of , of value at the end and the beginning , so it 's worth a hundred pounds day one , a hundred pounds day you know whatever , h how many days it 's in force , if it 's a five year gilt , it 's worth a hundred , a hundred pounds then . |
| 30 | Sure , there are a few areas where quality control could be bettered , but basically the instrument does not suffer in any way . |