Example sentences of "but [subord] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 2 | But where the queen 's tears flowed down the wall , a little stream runs to this day . |
| 3 | The issues are not just money but where the RIBA 's priorities should be in a rabidly changing situation . |
| 4 | But although the students ' efforts compared well with other universities and schools , the Bristol team has some distance to go before it can match the efforts of the Japanese motor industry entry which achieved 6,142 miles to the gallon . |
| 5 | But although the ward 's unemployment rate is higher than the city average of 12 per cent , the council says the real unemployment blackspots are still the peripheral housing schemes . |
| 6 | But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance . |
| 7 | It is generally true that/u/ may occur in languages that do not have/y/ , but if a language has/y/ it normally has/u/ as well . |
| 8 | Treitel adds ’ But if a son 's promise not to bore his father is not good consideration ( White v. Bluett above , p. 000 ) , it is hard to see why a mother 's promise to make her child happy should stand on a different footing … |
| 9 | Vacant possession ca n't be er achieved er , er overnight , as you appreciate but if the Government 's agricultural er land tenancy , hey do n't keep interrupting . |
| 10 | But if the government 's Food Safety Bill , which is currently before parliament gets through , the sight of food in our shops with the label ‘ Irradiated ’ on it , will become commonplace . |
| 11 | But if the Trust 's appeal is to be only nostalgia , it does n't deserve my subscription . |
| 12 | The lead is now sent to the Minsterley terminus of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool branch line , but if the Bishop 's Castle Railway were completed the ore destined for South Wales would be conveyed from Churchstoke Station via Craven Arms and the Central Wales Railway , thus effecting a saving of twenty miles in transit as compared with the present route . |
| 13 | But if the nation 's children are to get the education they deserve , concerted action may be needed . |
| 14 | But if the children 's autumn half-term coincided with a bank holiday weekend for their parents , that would make sense both for families and for the tourist and leisure industry . |
| 15 | But if the Dictionary 's coverage became seriously antiquated , the practitioners of these disciplines would be seriously disadvantaged . |
| 16 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 17 | But if the authority 's decision has inflicted irreparable damage on the applicant — for example , if it has pulled down his or her house in pursuance of an invalid demolition order — the remedies of public law are going to be much less satisfactory for the applicant . |
| 18 | But if the project 's scientists — and the intellectual giants who ran Britain 's nuclear programme at the time — were n't all that sure about the measurements , why did they call large press conferences ( on 23 January , 1958 ) and flood the scientific press with detailed descriptions of the work ? |
| 19 | Many fonts supplied have the same names as famous typographic faces but unless the typographer 's width tables have been provided for the target device all sorts of trouble can occur . |
| 20 | But unless the children 's parents raise twenty thousand pounds within the next few days it will close . |
| 21 | However , if the buyer 's failure to pay amounts to a repudiatory breach of contract ( see paragraph 11–08 above ) , the seller can refuse to make further deliveries , not by virtue of any lien , but because the buyer 's repudiatory breach excuses the seller from further performance of his contractual obligations . |
| 22 | But while the company 's management would not deny an element of luck , they would also point to a good deal of contingency planning that enabled them to react faster than anyone else to ILG 's collapse . |
| 23 | It was in 1988 that the college was led to believe that the three picture would fetch £15–20 million , but while the college 's financial situation has improved since then , the state of the art market has done the exact opposite . |
| 24 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 25 | At Bucharest the Turks had promised an amnesty for the Serbian rebels , but before the sultan 's authority could be established , the Turkish , Albanian and Bosnian Muslims who formed the occupying army pillaged and looted in a reign of terror which included the killing of all males over the age of fifteen in some areas , the enslavement of women and children , and the brutal torture of any Serbian leaders who fell into their hands . |
| 26 | Control of population growth is important for economic and social progress in developing countries but whether the world 's population will reach two , three , or four times its present size before it stabilises will depend very much on the rate of fertility decline in this decade , says a report from Population Action International . |
| 27 | Blaney did n't say thank you , but after a moment 's hesitation held out his hand which Dalgliesh grasped . |
| 28 | But after a moment 's silence he said , as if casually , ‘ She 's a scamper , that one ; into every hole and corner , if I remember rightly , so she 's likely stayed out late and is frightened to go home — if old man Walton had a load on she 'd be introduced to the buckle end of his belt . |
| 29 | The question brought her up short , but after a moment 's hesitation she answered it . |
| 30 | But after a moment 's thought he popped his head up again . |