Example sentences of "but they [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oxfordshire Health Authority say they regret Keith Atkinson 's disabilities , but they deny any negligence by staff in 1967 . |
| 6 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 7 | But they had little cushioning effect . |
| 8 | The soldiers grumbled on returning home to find their wives turned yellow by picric acid , but they had little redress . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With erm and they had sand , they all had sandbags along there , but they had these sort of er walls built up . |
| 13 | Craig : ‘ Yeah , but they had this element where they could write classic pop chart songs , and then again they could write ten minute mad songs as well . |
| 14 | But they had this goalkeeper , do you remember him , his name was Thomasescu , he was about ten foot two , eyes of blue , and he stopped everything , Kevin Hector had a go , Alan Clarke , they all did , even Peter Shilton in goal . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats did much less well than had the Alliance in 1986 in terms of votes , but they had more success in targeting and retaining council seats . |
| 16 | There were indeed three men of £200 at Cirencester , a major centre of the West of England wool trade , but they had few peers locally ; Newbury had four big clothiers , including the son of the legendary John Winchcombe , who was worth £630 , but here too there was no concentration of wealth comparable with that of Suffolk . |
| 17 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 18 | The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters . |
| 19 | The Rorim itself was not so well defended , but they had enough men to neutralise Bragad and hold the gates — for a while . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd hoped she and Leo could be here tonight , but they had another engagement . ’ |
| 21 | But they know these people because you co-opted on , so I was on standing conference of womens ' organisations . |
| 22 | The fact that he seemed a little simple did not escape their notice but they felt such affection for him that no one ever teased him . |
| 23 | They did n't win in 1970 , but they put that right with a vengeance in 1971 . |
| 24 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 25 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 26 | United 's record is n't a lot to sing about , but they deserve some cheers for the way they keep plugging away and its not always they 're fault . |
| 27 | He sat with Sir Harold for a while , but they exchanged few words . |
| 28 | D. Farms are smaller than those of East Anglia but they use more labour . |
| 29 | The AP1-88 's air-cooled truck diesels that provide both lift and propulsion are heavier than the converted aero engine that powers the SR.N6 , but they burn less fuel and cost only one-fifth as much . |
| 30 | I wo n't say more intelligent , but they get more attention . ’ |