Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where their particular disability impairs their access to the curriculum , this access should be facilitated by alternative means , and it should be recognised that the problem of access may hinder their initial progress , though they may be expected to catch up later . |
| 2 | This was a significant exception , but although their higher rate of natural increase and migration into the rising manufacturing districts enlarged the population of earners in the " better-waged " districts absolutely and proportionately , this was insufficient to prevent a fall in the national average real wage . |
| 3 | But although his selected trio — Northwich Victoria 's Liverpool-born defender Jeff Parker , Warrington Town utility man Paul McNally and Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Norman Kelly may not be household names , he is convinced they are the right choice . |
| 4 | But if her snarling face in the mirror is any indication , Snow White 's the one who should be quaking in her boots . |
| 5 | Youthful students were one thing , but if her impressionable sister had become involved with a man of this calibre … |
| 6 | ‘ But if my little darling reads books like that at his age , ’ says the mother , ‘ what will he do when he grows up ? ’ |
| 7 | But if my fair kinswoman will but be patient and abide in my house until we have brought all into order , and made proper search for this money … ’ |
| 8 | Usually they are quite capable of doing this for themselves , but if your elderly parent turns to you for advice on financial matters your main aims should be : I. To make sure that she is receiving all the State benefits and pensions to which she may be entitled . |
| 9 | Certainly , once committed to a personal code , I can make value as well as factual judgments about your conduct ; but if your first principle is ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ and mine is ‘ Care only for yourself ’ , it seems that there is no objective test by which one of us can convince the other that he is right , as there is for an issue of fact . |
| 10 | Ok , so you 've had a great Christmas , but if your New Year 's resolution is to get back into shape then you 'd better check out Kathy Smith 's new Workout videos . |
| 11 | But if your main organ of sensory perception were sound , and you had an excellently organized mind structure and sensory system for appreciating three-dimensionality and structure from sonic input , then the world would be fully perceptible by day or night . |
| 12 | This all sounds like dashing stuff , but if his sheer audacity had not carried the day , he would have been unable to defend himself against so many . |
| 13 | We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine . |
| 14 | In general most of these new venues pay derisory fees , not because they are wicked scheming capitalists , but because their economic set-up forces them to do so . |
| 15 | We are not unfamiliar with situations where the best we can do in practice is to assign probabilities , not because events are fundamentally acausal but because their detailed mechanism lies at a level too deep to be accessible to us . |
| 16 | Not only was the non-fulfilment of the APT an enormous financial loss but since its rapid adoption in ‘ squadron service ’ had been presumed there were no alternative plans for either trains or track . |
| 17 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
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| 19 | We rarely see each other but since their rotten tree blew down , smashing the fence and my bulbs , it 's been hard not to . |
| 20 | But since his principal concern was with the psychological effect of poetry on the reader , he did not carry this sort of analysis very far . |
| 21 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 22 | But while his emotional life was troubled , Cleese the businessman was finding success in an unexpected quarter — training videos . |
| 23 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 24 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 25 | Labour 's capacity to resist change can never be under-estimated and their conversion will always be suspect , but after their partial success by moving in this direction , this is what they will certainly try to do . |
| 26 | The next fifty years were the classic age of piracy when men like Teach ( Blackbeard ) plundered in all directions and buried their fortunes on treasure islands , but after their main base in the Bahamas was brought under control by the British government in 1718 the Atlantic was made reasonably safe from this . |
| 27 | But after their meek collapse at the weekend , Palace made it clear from the start that they would not fold again with some juddering tackles . |
| 28 | But after her 25-year-old boyfriend from Huntington , Chester , popped the question Sharon , 22 , admitted she was stunned . |
| 29 | But when their own country ( the country of Lord Nuffield and Montague Norman ) was in danger , their attitude was very different . |
| 30 | I do not want to be harsh , but when I first set eyes on him I knew the type at once : the big , gangling provincial , so eager and relieved to find himself at last in artistic circles . |