Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have tried endless products which claim to remedy this , but nothing has any effect . |
| 2 | You may live in a modern house where the style of bare floorboards is acceptable , but nothing beats good carpeting as insulation . |
| 3 | I am sure they provide very economical motoring , but no-one gets much enjoyment out of it shall I say . |
| 4 | But everyone has high hopes for him . |
| 5 | But everyone knows such conjecture is idle . |
| 6 | But nobody has enough money , except the rich , the emigrant businessmen and the old Party officials . |
| 7 | Suppose a particular nationalized firm wants to institute a project that has a very favourable rate of return but which involves heavy capital outlays prior to any revenues being generated . |
| 8 | This is a device similar to a normal cassette recorder but which takes bigger tape cassettes , each of which can hold all the data and programs on your computer . |
| 9 | Its characteristics include adjustable string tension , a system which has been underrated in previous years but which has incalculable benefits to the regular club enthusiast . |
| 10 | Vertical integration which does not come about through merger but which has anticompetitive consequences is a potential concern of the FTA if it involves a monopoly situation . |
| 11 | Rather this is a feature which is unique to that particular generation or cohort but which has profound implications for the provision of family care to older people in the community . |
| 12 | The clinical ecology movement , founded in the 1950s by the American allergist , Dr Theron Randolf , is based on the belief that certain people are unusually susceptible to the adverse effects of their environment ; this results in a disease which clinical ecologists call ‘ environmental illness ’ but which has several names , including ‘ total allergy syndrome , ’ ‘ twentieth century disease , ’ and ‘ food and chemical sensitivities . ’ |
| 13 | And then somebody puts another piece of wire in , I 'm not saying how much resistance it is , but somebody puts another piece of wire . |
| 14 | The next phase of commodity production is very different , but itself has two stages . |
| 15 | She does n't try to be Black , but she appreciates Black culture , Black fashion . |
| 16 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 17 | Urwin recognizes that dominant ideas of good motherhood appeal to women 's fantasies , but she endorses feminist prescriptiveness about maternity when she pictures these fantasies as mainly pernicious and restricting . |
| 18 | She has still not given up the search , but she fears some animals are exported to Ireland or to the continent . |
| 19 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 20 | Katie completed her course in a year — it should normally take 2 — but she refutes any suggestion that General National Vocational Qualifications , as they 're known , are a soft option . |
| 21 | yeah , but she charges five pound cos there must of been some little bits over |
| 22 | But she does ginger tea . |
| 23 | But she says this light was on . |
| 24 | She 's getting on now , but she takes good notice of whatever anyone says . |
| 25 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 26 | But she undercuts this realization with footnotes which describe similarities , but no differences , in the articulation of gender in homosexual relationships ; and which parallel the unconscious splits generated by discourses of gender , with those generated by racist discourses : ‘ When I made generalisations about women ( almost always derogatory ) , I did not include myself in the group I was talking about … . |
| 27 | But she emphasizes cross-cultural similarities in women 's nurturant roles . |
| 28 | ‘ But she makes nice chocolate cake and she 's handy when the cook 's on holiday , ’ she admitted as she examined her face in the shine . |
| 29 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |
| 30 | But she has such power , such spiritual power . |