Example sentences of "but [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 2 | Support was welcomed , but except in the case of Israel and the United States , the relationships which evolved tended to be as frustrating as rewarding for all the contestants . |
| 3 | In the oceans , too , as we saw , the turnover of life can be prodigious , but except in the mangroves and a few other places there are no big and permanent plants ; the only complex , permanent living architecture in the oceans is provided by the coral reefs . |
| 4 | But although at every opportunity he was continuing to urge a role for the Church in both social and economic matter , his attitude towards specific political events was still a tentative one ; there was always a gap between his theoretical pronouncements and his actual reactions to one " crisis " or another . |
| 5 | But if as a Westerner you can not read the abacus , or the scales , it is bad luck , because the assumption is that everyone shares the skills that enable them to do this . |
| 6 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 7 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 8 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 9 | But if in a moment of madness you do a John McEnroe and smash it to smithereens , all you get is the satisfaction . |
| 10 | I propose to call her , but if in the event I judge it to be unnecessary then I shall invite because I do n't want to add unnecessarily to the length of these proceedings . |
| 11 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 12 | 5.11.4 any steps taken in direct connection with the preparation and service of a Schedule of dilapidations during or after the expiration of the Term but if after the expiration of the Term only in respect of wants of repair occurring during the Term and where served within three months after the expiration of the Term |
| 13 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 14 | But because of a break-down in communication , the Probation Service , which could have warned-off the St. Lazarus group , was unaware that he had joined the organisation . |
| 15 | The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems . |
| 16 | But because of a contract signed by Darlington Borough Council and the hotel 's former leaseholders in 1974 , the rent paid by the company running it is only a fraction of its market value . |
| 17 | Social services say the action was ’ not satisfactory ’ , but because of a shortage of staff , Mr Chandler was put in the trolley to stop him wandering off . |
| 18 | Finally , with regard to cl 10 , it should be noted that no obligation to permit alteration of the goods to make them non-infringing is imposed on the buyer , and that the obligation to return infringing goods , subject to a refund of the price , is only imposed on the buyer where it arises not at the option of the seller but because of a judgment or settlement relating to the claim of infringement ( which is presumably not entirely within the seller 's control ) . |
| 19 | British films are too rarely good , not because of national character , but because of a production system that is inadequate to the task of generating a regular output of full-blooded films . |
| 20 | It was timed to explode just 30 minutes later but because of a blunder the detonator failed to explode — the capital 's second lucky escape in just 16 days . |
| 21 | It is not stated by the originator as to the exact site of the primary tumour from which MKN45 and MKN45G were derived but because of the gastrin secretory nature of MKN45G it could possibly have been in the antrum . |
| 22 | I listened to it I was shocked , not because of the content , but because of the happening of it and the realization of how Britain had changed . |
| 23 | LOW-ENERGY electron diffraction ( LEED ) has become the most successful technique in surface crystallography , but because of the complexity of the surface-electron scattering interactions , analyses of LEED data are still conducted on a trial-and-error basis : a direct-inversion method for treating LEED intensity data remains an attractive goal . |
| 24 | But because of the advent now of erm organized bonfires , that risk has receded but having said that it has only receded , not gone away . |
| 25 | Despite the hype , Switchboard is very special ; not because of its size , or its range , or its particular achievements but because of the way in which it has endured and grown and responded to a perceived constituency . |
| 26 | Once , again , this is a basic four row tuck , but because of the way the pattern is constructed the result is very three dimensional . |
| 27 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 28 | This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured . |
| 29 | I have to own up and say that I do n't really like applications wanting to be installed into the Windows directory , but because of the way Windows handles wallpaper bitmaps , there 's little option here — the lot has to go there . |
| 30 | Is he aware that that progress has been made not merely because of the skill of the consultants and of the nursing staff but because of the way they work together as a team ? |