Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
| 2 | This means that for the first one the doubt is ‘ simple ’ and can be cleared up in a straightforward way , but for the second it is ‘ compound ’ and needs much greater care . |
| 3 | But for the converted it was worth the wait . |
| 4 | Its major development as a dual-purpose breed took place between 1920 and 1950 , but during the 1960s it was developed instead as an extreme beef type , benefiting from a degree of marbling in the meat bequeathed by its Beef Shorthorn ancestry . |
| 5 | But during the fifties he too came under the patronage of Frank Sinatra , and he became a popular TV personality and starred in his own situation comedy . |
| 6 | Several of Sisley 's early paintings dating from the second half of the 1860s were accepted for display in the official Salon , but during the 1870s he began to paint in a fully fledged Impressionist style characterized by pure colours applied with broken brush strokes and bright light . |
| 7 | At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability . |
| 8 | But of the two I think there is more love on his side ; Mama is inclined to be cool . |
| 9 | but of the two you ca n't , you ca n't have a ba you ca n't have no basic wage and only overtime |
| 10 | No but like the all they do is they keep like , you know , they keep a gun in their car . |
| 11 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |
| 12 | Apparently he did use it but with a different he did n't put nutrients in it did he . |
| 13 | Tough shit , but with the Dead them 's the breaks . |
| 14 | Tough shit , but with the Dead them 's the breaks . |
| 15 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 16 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 17 | But in the Sixties we did n't feel that way . |
| 18 | Germi had begun his career directing serious , realistic features on postwar Italy , but in the sixties he changed to broad , satirical sex comedies , the best and most popular being Divorce Italian Style , which received three Oscar nominations . |
| 19 | In the short-term it might work as a morale-booster for players to see a fresh face , but in the long-term I do n't think anybody else could do any better than Howard . |
| 20 | but in the twenties I was better at the pictures or somewhere like that , which you could get for a few pence , but you 're not walking about or doing tiring thing . |
| 21 | This later led to more troubles than they could have expected , but in the 1630s they seemed to be effectively independent . |
| 22 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 23 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 24 | But in the mid-eighties it developed a line of kitchenware going completely over to this at Christmas . |
| 25 | They soon spread to a variety of habitats , but in the Palaeozoic they were conspicuously abundant in relatively shallow environments . |
| 26 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
| 27 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 28 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 29 | But in the 1860s they were in full flower . |
| 30 | But , but in the fifties you were probably one of the only shops in Harlow that sold |