Example sentences of "but [verb] [verb] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first hurdle will be to renew the approval of the Vice-Chancellor , a senior judge , who has so far agreed that there is a case to argue but wants to know that enough creditors support the action to make its pursuit a worthwhile use of all creditors ' funds . |
| 2 | We longed for the arrival of autumn , but began to doubt that such a season existed in Sudan . |
| 3 | As Piaget said himself when reporting his original data , it is just not possible to explain the seven-month-old 's failure to search in terms of memory failure ( that is the baby knows that objects exist unperceived but keeps forgetting that this object went behind there ) because if an organism had a memory this bad it would ipso facto lack object permanence . |
| 4 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 5 | Consultative participation leaves the main design tasks to the systems analysts , but tries to ensure that all staff in the user department are consulted about the change . |
| 6 | We include here an ideal weight chart ( Table 1 ) to help you assess your own personal goal , but do remember that this is a rough estimate only . |
| 7 | Mr de Klerk said he had considered appointing a black minister , but had concluded that such a step would be counter-productive at the current delicate stage of negotiations . |
| 8 | North Korea had also signed long-delayed nuclear inspection accords with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) at the end of January , but had stated that these would not become effective until ratified by the Supreme People 's Assembly — the country 's legislature — which was unlikely to occur before April . |
| 9 | The Halifax argues that borrowers benefit from certainty , but does concede that some people — who will not pay any more if rates do rise , until next April — may be seduced into ‘ a feeling of false prosperity ’ . |
| 10 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |