Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had their moments of flair but they wasted good midfield work with speculative shots into the stand . |
| 2 | think that the effects of training should be the main focus of research on gender differences in spatial abilities , but they connect this programme to ‘ a sincere wish to see what cognitive sex differences might remain if the sexes were treated without discrimination ’ ( 1986 : 1017–18 ) . |
| 3 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 4 | Cheshire have traditionally be one of the stronger counties in the Western Division , but they suffered two defeats in their opening three matches . |
| 5 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 6 | Bicker muttered to himself as he rode in front , but they made better time for the wind had not risen and the sun was almost warm . |
| 7 | Editor , — Martin E Wilkie and colleagues have prepared a comprehensive review on diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection in adults , but they made several statements that are not necessarily firmly established or on which recent views have changed . |
| 8 | But they sounded different coming from the Lieutenant 's mouth . |
| 9 | Entomopathogenic fungi — those causing disease in insects — have also been used in pest biocontrol , but they require high humidity . |
| 10 | Such details are hardly at the heart of ‘ introducing major operational change ’ , which the Government 's Teaching Company Scheme ( TCS ) proposes , but they form intriguing by-products . |
| 11 | Such details are hardly at the heart of ‘ introducing major operational change ’ , which the Government 's Teaching Company Scheme ( TCS ) proposes , but they form intriguing by-products . |
| 12 | The dispersion of adult reproductive males resembles that of females when food is poor , but they form large groups utilizing ranges in common at other times . |
| 13 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 14 | Libyan police forces were of various kinds ( municipal , traffic , frontier , uniformed public security , plainclothes detective , and secret ) , but they shared one characteristic : the policemen usually lived in their own homes , in the towns and oases in which they had rights to land . |
| 15 | In two respects — the nature of their self-concepts and their social networks — their position was quite highly domestic and kin-oriented , but they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample . |
| 16 | Oxfordshire Health Authority say they regret Keith Atkinson 's disabilities , but they deny any negligence by staff in 1967 . |
| 17 | But they prefer wet places where they can hunt for frogs , fish , molluscs , crustaceans and worms . |
| 18 | The recordings comprised uninterrupted performances of opera overtures , but they cost ten shillings and sixpence each , and needed an outsize turntable . |
| 19 | Guatemala , receiving a one-goal handicap start , surprisingly led 5–1 at the end of the first chukka as the Argentines appeared very nervous , but they scored four goals in the second chukka and dominated the rest of the game . |
| 20 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 21 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 22 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 23 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 24 | They belonged to they were ships you know , but they had one sailing ship , the herself , They made a road into quarry you see . |
| 25 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 26 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 27 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 28 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 29 | Late nineteenth-century judicial reforms did streamline court procedure , but they had little effect on the way in which the administration of law and order was popularly perceived . |
| 30 | Maybe they had n't got any clothes , and they could n't afford one of the nice rooms , and they did n't belong anywhere , but they had each other and they had Baby to visit each day . |