Example sentences of "but [subord] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But as soon as a company takes the first tentative steps from data to information , its decision processes , management structure , and even the way its work gets done begin to be transformed . |
2 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
3 | She said that existing vicars would keep their right to stay in their parish until they were 65 but as soon as a parish became vacant the priest-in-charge system would be introduced . |
4 | No , but as soon as a woman comes in I always say ah language lads ladies present . |
5 | If the right foot remains there for several bars , the arms will be held still , but as soon as the left moves in front the arms will change . |
6 | But as soon as the name has merged with the object it designates , we must , conversely , resort to metaphor , allusion or allegory if we wish a more expressive term . |
7 | But as soon as the animal sits down , a photoelectric cell switches on the air stream , so stopping the pig from getting cold . |
8 | Thus , if the start of your recording contains only hiss , the gate remains shut , but as soon as the wanted sound starts , the gate opens . |
9 | The war memorial tablet on the wall of Brigstock Villa was removed to a place of safe keeping before tram operation from Thornton Heath ceased , but as soon as the depôt was cleared of cars , demolition contractors moved in . |
10 | Cris tried to help , of course , but as soon as the ambulances came they sent him off to the local hospital , and that 's where he is now . |
11 | The allied forces were spread like a net to trap an emperor , but as soon as the Emperor touched the net it was supposed to contract and entangle him . |
12 | The Conservatives had clearly let the economy overheat for electoral advantage in 1955 , but as soon as the election was over , clamped down with a credit squeeze and requests to trim expenditure below the agreed levels . |
13 | But as soon as the next downpour came the crust was soaked , vile gas bubbles would belch forth from it and infect the surrounding air . |
14 | But as soon as the television come round there was a helluva change in the screws , being falsely nice . |
15 | But as soon as the combine came in I had to be very careful with them . |
16 | But as soon as the stoat got into the wind and the rabbit scented it , the rabbit set up a shriek and remained as though paralysed . |
17 | Marek was asleep at the time but as soon as the woman hit the bed Nowak woke up with a scream . |
18 | But as soon as the n the kid Nicky hits teenage years then he wants to be called Nick , whereas if the girl 's been christened Nicola and she 's called Nicky through her childhood , when she hits teens she 's still called Nicky . |
19 | But as soon as the Fronde was over . |
20 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |
21 | But as soon as the two poles are put into relationship by a " power conductor " the relative potential at the two ends of the connector generates a power flow . |
22 | His constitutional plan had been to secure the election of his son , the young Frederick , as king , but as soon as the emperor was known to be dead the wisdom of upholding the election of so young an heir was questioned . |
23 | But as soon as the presentation had been made to the laboratory manager , he offered the bottle to the Guinness Fundraisers as a raffle prize for one of their future fund raising events . |
24 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
25 | But as soon as the meal was finished , her animation left her . |
26 | That 's why I 'm so keen , I shall I tell you what my plan is , at the moment but as soon as the the uncourteous Bill has decided to move into his new house new flat , rather , I am going to take my ensuite back |
27 | No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know . |
28 | Those feelings are another subject for another day , but as well as the cricket final , I have absorbed a mass of European and world football . |
29 | But as well as the bills and routine costs , there are of course the hidden costs of good health — hidden costs which can soon become expensive indeed . |
30 | The best-known lepton is the electron , but as well as the neutrinos the lepton family also includes the muon and the tau , both of which are like the electron but are respectively 210 and 3500 times heavier . |