Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 2 | But where you sees two for the price of one , you 're effectively gon na be getting a fifty percent |
| 3 | so then they 'd be about three pound or four pound in pocket and that 's how they , that 's how we used to help one another but once they get one rope ashore they could do it , the job see but of course there 's no boatmen today now , they call theirself boatmen but there ai n't one of the buggers going in a boat , I do n't suppose they could row a boat now . |
| 4 | When they are moving about and their legs are held apart from the body the splash-pattern is not obvious , but once they crouch motionless , with their legs drawn up to their sides , their trunk and leg patches meet and obscure the divisions between them . |
| 5 | But once it gets wet the weight of the water may well kill it . |
| 6 | But once it became clear that most Algerians supported Iraq , the FIS quickly did the same . |
| 7 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 8 | But once I decide that 's settled I 'd notice it cause you could n't seem to get down . |
| 9 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 10 | ‘ No , but once you become known sales will increase , ’ said the publisher . |
| 11 | But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying . |
| 12 | But once you do that , soon as you put your mallet against the hoop , you push the hoop if it 's loose forward anyway |
| 13 | This is the mental adjustment that has to be made at Verdon — you start your route with several hundred metres already below you , but once you rationalise this it 's just a steep , very solid crag ! |
| 14 | A tap dance duo followed , but although they performed topless , the Anzacs ignored their swinging titties to concentrate on boozing and playing poker dice . |
| 15 | As I have already made clear before , every such particular has certain " essential " properties which it can not shed without ceasing to be what it is ; but although its having such properties is necessary to its identity , it is not quite sufficient to explain its existential uniqueness . |
| 16 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 17 | But although she escaped personal attack , the reviews of the £20 million blockbuster were far from ‘ perfick ’ . |
| 18 | Stevie might have tended to exaggerate , but although she had rich parents , she worked as a waitress in Los Angeles to support Lindsey , and they roughed it around a bit . |
| 19 | But although he took this very stiff line about theism and organized religion , it 's not true that Russell himself was void of religious feelings and interests . |
| 20 | But although he learnt such skills as writing feasibility studies , he soon tired of life in the grant-aided voluntary sector . |
| 21 | Like Althusser , Foucault was once called a structuralist , but although he shows great interest in structures ( including the structures of thought and of ‘ discourse ’ in different ages ) he differs significantly from both Althusser and other struc-turalists , often being described consequently as ‘ post-structuralist ’ — and ‘ post-Marxist ’ and ‘ post-modernist ’ as well . |
| 22 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 23 | But although it felt numb , the leg was still bearing his weight , so he hobbled quickly over to the door leading to the basement , jerked it open and dived through . |
| 24 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 25 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 26 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 27 | It seems a bit odd to be asking people to join the CTC in order to further the interests of cycling in Scotland ; but if we get this leaflet off the ground we can then tell HQ what we are doing for them . |
| 28 | Naturally , they are worried that the Queen 's head may disappear from our currency , but if we had economic and monetary union , as we have with Scotland , nothing would stop us providing different notes , even with a different name , provided that they had fixed values that were easily exchangeable . |
| 29 | But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . " |
| 30 | It does n't sound much , but if we ignored those extra few hours , after four years our calendar year would be a whole day ahead of the solar year . |