Example sentences of "but [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A general waiver has been granted by the Council to permit the establishment of staff bonus schemes which make payments to employees calculated by reference to the gross fee income or net profits of the firm ; which are open to all employees subject only to a short ( maximum three years ) qualifying period ; where the basis of distribution ( length of service , proportionate to salary etc ) is disclosed to the staff , but where the actual level of profits or income need not be so disclosed ; and where no distribution is permitted which is related to the introduction of business . |
| 2 | But where the pre-existing obligation is a contractual duty owed to a third party , some other ground of public policy must be relied on to invalidate the consideration ( if otherwise legal ) … |
| 3 | Representative actions are particularly useful when the impact of the challenged action on any particular individual is too slight to justify litigation , but where the aggregate impact on all members of the affected group is considerable . |
| 4 | ‘ BR is a relatively efficient railway , ’ public transport minister Roger Freeman told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ but where the private sector can provide a service , it will be more responsive to the needs and demands of customers . |
| 5 | He was , like Wellington , well over six feet tall but where the New Zealander emphasised his height with his erect bearing , De Gaulle stooped slightly . |
| 6 | The Bill aims to close gaps in existing law on fraud and allow courts in England and Wales to try cases of fraud and similar offences , where much of the criminal activity may have occurred in this country but where the final act happened overseas . |
| 7 | This aspect of writing development is one in which it is relatively easy to specify the direction of development , and achievements at higher levels , but where the precise specification of intermediate levels is much more difficult . |
| 8 | Where there is no tidal range wave attack is concentrated at the same level of the coast for twenty-four hours a day , but where the tidal range is great it may be spread over a vast foreshore zone and may only attack the foot of the cliffs for a very short period at each high tide . |
| 9 | He had drawn his sword and held it , not yet in challenge aloft , but where the naked blade could just be seen by men on horse-back . |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the Council of Mortgage Lenders said : ‘ Some lenders are imposing bans on all concrete buildings , but once the new test is operational there will be no need for such caution . ’ |
| 11 | But although the Criminal Law Revision Committee has declared its support for the present age of consent , its proposals concerning the mental element in sections 5 and 6 can serve only to undermine it . |
| 12 | But although the imperial bureaucracy was growing in size , it was too small to take over all the duties for which landlords had been responsible . |
| 13 | But although the away side did well in the Midlands , there was disappointment at Liverpool , where the locals went down by 31 shots . |
| 14 | It was in a row of green marble facades , but although the elegant exterior had to be maintained , inside the Ashleys continued their policy of minimal decoration with maximum stock . |
| 15 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 16 | But although the natural health benefits of fish oil have been enjoyed for generations only now is it becoming clear how fish oil can provide the essentials for maintaining health . |
| 17 | But although the schizoid suicide and the anorexic both deny the reality of death , it seems to me that they do so for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 18 | Much rests on the new sponsor , but if the right backer is found . |
| 19 | But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups . |
| 20 | But if the Wilsonian rhetoric went well beyond what Labour was able to achieve , Heath 's ‘ mandate ’ for change was even flimsier than that of Labour in the '60s . |
| 21 | But if the other party does n't use this level of response themselves , they may regard you as insincere or phoney . |
| 22 | The presence of current organisations involved in tourism will be necessary , but if the new organisation is to succeed the private sector must be much more actively involved in decision making than has been allowed in the past . |
| 23 | But if the new science is produced through a rupture with the ‘ errors ’ of the old , the tenacious hold of common-sense forms of thought means that any given text may simultaneously embody aspects of the old and new ways of thinking , theoretical and ideological frameworks that Bachelard , and Althusser after him , term ‘ problematics ’ : |
| 24 | Unusual , perhaps , tiresome to his office — but if the strange behaviour at which his daughter had hinted was really a sort of battiness , the office would have made its own arrangements to get by . |
| 25 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 26 | But if the average level of prices is above the level generally expected , P , then , as we have shown , the quantity of output will be above its natural level , whereas if the general level of prices is below the level expected , then aggregate output will be below its natural level . |
| 27 | Tree removal in such a system , as occurred in the 1607–1900 period of US history , will inevitably lead to forest demise , but if the ecological system is carefully managed there are large-scale opportunities to reap a timber harvest without jeopardising sustainability . |
| 28 | So far no-one has succeded in activating methane , but if the current rate of progress is maintained that feat must be just around the corner . |
| 29 | But if the Labour Party is to survive the consequences of its defence of bad housing , it is going to have to surrender the belief that it is the only voice of the people . |
| 30 | But if the Labour move to reverse the opt-out of the social chapter is successful , the Government could be forced into a position of unconstitutionally spending money from the consolidated fund without parliamentary approval . |