Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheshire have traditionally be one of the stronger counties in the Western Division , but they suffered two defeats in their opening three matches . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But they prefer wet places where they can hunt for frogs , fish , molluscs , crustaceans and worms . |
| 9 | The recordings comprised uninterrupted performances of opera overtures , but they cost ten shillings and sixpence each , and needed an outsize turntable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | Nothing is known of his first wife whom he married c .1730 , but they had two daughters . |
| 13 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 14 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 17 | The appointment and overthrow of individual emperors were largely matters of Italian politics , but they had significant repercussions in Gaul , not least because of the close personal connections between Ricimer and the Burgundian royal family , the Gibichungs . |
| 18 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 19 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 20 | They were ungainly vehicles with double-flight stairs and short canopies , but they had top covers and Brill 22E bogies , which were more reliable than the Brush bogies under their own cars . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | as indeed they were in 1922–23 , but they had few prospects under coalition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Rorim itself was not so well defended , but they had enough men to neutralise Bragad and hold the gates — for a while . |
| 25 | But they admit individual agents only on the terms on which a natural scientist admits individual and particular objects . |
| 26 | Friends had warned Mitchum to steer clear of this hustler , but they became close friends . |
| 27 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 28 | The rigs were all dry of course , but they carried huge stocks of other duty free goods , mainly tobacco and cigarettes . |
| 29 | But they overlook two problems . |
| 30 | But they remain firm friends , and David has nothing but praise for the way his former girlfriend has handled stardom . |