Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trollope evidently shares Jane Austen 's preference for past community to present isolation ; but where she felt those sites to be alternatives , he knows that the first is a part of history . |
| 2 | Is my hon. and learned Friend aware that in the Baltic states today the problems of lack of food and hunger are just as serious as , if not more serious than , those in the big cities of the former Soviet Union , but that they receive little attention ? |
| 3 | But that they see this , mind I told you before that this brace was awfully sore and that painful . |
| 4 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |
| 5 | This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him . |
| 6 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 7 | But that it took another oh quite a number of years really to get it started up . |
| 8 | The General assured her they had thought long on the matter , and had decided not only that it would be a suitable appointment for her , but that she had much to contribute to social services . |
| 9 | I do n't know about you but once I pick these Mills and Boone books up I ca n't stop reading the flipping things . |
| 10 | But once I decide that 's settled I 'd notice it cause you could n't seem to get down . |
| 11 | But once you break that down and start to have lots of small independent production companies , then you find very many larger numbers of women and everyone can choose who they want to work with . |
| 12 | But once you do that , soon as you put your mallet against the hoop , you push the hoop if it 's loose forward anyway |
| 13 | This is the mental adjustment that has to be made at Verdon — you start your route with several hundred metres already below you , but once you rationalise this it 's just a steep , very solid crag ! |
| 14 | As I have already made clear before , every such particular has certain " essential " properties which it can not shed without ceasing to be what it is ; but although its having such properties is necessary to its identity , it is not quite sufficient to explain its existential uniqueness . |
| 15 | But although he took this very stiff line about theism and organized religion , it 's not true that Russell himself was void of religious feelings and interests . |
| 16 | But although he learnt such skills as writing feasibility studies , he soon tired of life in the grant-aided voluntary sector . |
| 17 | The plates still had some food on them but although I found some meat , it had a strange gloopy liquid on it so I gave it a miss . |
| 18 | But if one rejects this view and credits people with a capacity to judge matters for themselves this does not mean that one should take an uncritical attitude towards poll findings . |
| 19 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 20 | It seems a bit odd to be asking people to join the CTC in order to further the interests of cycling in Scotland ; but if we get this leaflet off the ground we can then tell HQ what we are doing for them . |
| 21 | But if we had that aim in mind exclusively , we would choose a different theory of adjudication , which we might call " unilateral conventionalism " or just " unilateralism . " |
| 22 | It does n't sound much , but if we ignored those extra few hours , after four years our calendar year would be a whole day ahead of the solar year . |
| 23 | But if we omit those material conditions from our writing , then the writing voice loses much of its authority and power . |
| 24 | But if we spend more than we earn ( ie expenditure is higher than income ) , then ‘ the books ’ do n't balance and we end up in debt , or ‘ in the red ’ . |
| 25 | But if we reject this view in favour of memory as a property of the brain as a system , rather than of its individual cellular and molecular components , then memory will depend not on distinct biochemistry but on just which cells and synapses are showing the changes , where they are located in the nervous system , and which other cells they make contact with . |
| 26 | All the letters suggest different ways in which the Bill can be improved , but if we accept this awful timetable motion tonight a Bill of nearly 100 clauses will have very limited time for discussion , and the guillotine will fall in Committee . |
| 27 | But if we do that at the expense of other vital interests … we will have made a mistake . ’ |
| 28 | But if we do that , all we do is we we delude ourselves . |
| 29 | We need to move more into that area of work , that sort of prevention , and we need if possible to move more in partnerships with voluntary organizations , but if we do that , er , then we will have to pay them . |
| 30 | I suppose we could fix them to read the same , but if we did that , ma'am , we would n't need two clocks , and it 'd be a shame to part with either of them ! ’ |