Example sentences of "but [art] [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film is not particularly well constructed , and the subplot featuring Squibs ' sister 's desperate life in Paris with a murderer on the run is poorly connected to the scenes of rejoicing back home , but the central character 's vitality carries the story . |
| 2 | The Bush administration had been enjoined from enforcing this regulation pending resolution of a court challenge , but the Supreme Court 's Rust v. Sullivan decision of May 23 , 1991 , had pronounced it constitutional . |
| 3 | Commentators still tend to remark on the informality of industrial tribunal procedure ( Farmer , 1974 ; Walker , 1985 ) , but the industrial tribunal 's rules of procedure are no longer informal , and it has become an adversarial forum ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ; Genn and Genn , 1989 ) . |
| 4 | For individual A , her own income is a good but the other person 's income is a bad , reflecting the presence of malice towards B. ( Envy is increasing marginal disutility of the other person 's income . ) |
| 5 | Chris explained : ‘ James here is our scorer and Mr Marshall signalled four wides when there was a wide and the ball went to the boundary , but the other side 's scorer says you ca n't have four wides at once , only one , and the other three must count as byes . |
| 6 | But the other men 's wives soon got jealous |
| 7 | The quarrying business saw sales and profits fall by 6 p.c. and 14 p.c. respectively but the concrete division 's profits improved 5 p.c. thanks to strong roof tile sales . |
| 8 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 9 | But the Prime Minister 's dominant recognition of the Labour threat was underscored by the fact that she chose to avoid the contentious issues of water and electricity privatisation , poll tax , the trade deficit , the European Community , and the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 10 | But the Prime Minister 's luck held . |
| 11 | But the Prime Minister 's account of his own conversation at the palace earlier that morning reveals that the King had already determined to try for a National Government headed by MacDonald . |
| 12 | But the present government 's preference for a mixed system of welfare is based on a desire to reduce the role of the state and correspondingly increase the role of the informal , voluntary and commercial sectors . |
| 13 | But the Loyalist Prisoners ' Welfare Association chairman , Jim McDonald , accused the prison authorities of turning a peaceful protest into ‘ bloody carnage . ’ |
| 14 | But the Labour leaders ' caution was understandable in the light of the amendments made to the party constitution after the break with Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 , the last leader to have favoured a coalition government , whose action had led to a split in the party and his expulsion from membership . |
| 15 | It is not our credibility on tax matters that needs to be proved , but the Labour party 's . |
| 16 | But the five dockers ' case was about the ‘ very simple issue ’ of punishment for men who had defied the order of the NIRC and had expressed their intention to continue in that defiance . |
| 17 | But the Soviet Union 's predicament is real enough . |
| 18 | Eastern Europe stirred : Poland 's exports to the European Community rose by 40% in 1990 , and Hungary 's by 28% , but the Soviet Union 's exports fell by 5.5% to $103 billion . |
| 19 | But the second half 's Shostakovich , the G Minor Piano Quintet , was magnificent . |
| 20 | I can put up with missing pizzicato detailing at bar 383 of the first movement — one of Beethoven 's happiest small orchestral fancies , beautifully brought out by Böhm and the VPO on DG — but the second violins ' inaudibility as they pick up the shepherd 's song of thanksgiving leaves a gruesome hole in the texture . |
| 21 | Rural clients ' problems can therefore be seen to be similar to their city counterparts , but the rural advisers ' problems are different . |
| 22 | But the young man 's grip was firm , his skin surprisingly warm . |
| 23 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 24 | But the young mother 's plans were dashed when she discovered that Gilfoyle was still married and that his wife was expecting . |
| 25 | Southern rock ( remember Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers ? ) may leave a bad taste in the mouth for many rock elitists , but The Black Crowes ' brand of Southern comfort packs the kick those other bands ( although worthy ) failed to deliver . |
| 26 | This is certainly less sexist , but the married couple 's allowance goes to the man unless he has insufficient income to benefit from it . |
| 27 | FRIDAY Dr & The Medics Silly hippies in Roy Wood cast-off costumes do n't sound like the most appetising evening out , and their brief foray into the charts was a considerable embarrassment , but the good Dr 's tongue is in the right place ( in his cheek ) and a jolly time is guaranteed . |
| 28 | But the new Queen 's champion admitted that the first meeting ever between the two players dominated by heavy serves and containing few spectacular winners was a poor spectacle for a 6,000 crowd which included Princess Diana . |
| 29 | Their reward was an encounter against New Zealand , but the All Blacks ' strength and experience proved too much for the Koreans as they went down 14–0 . |
| 30 | The government admitted to 3,500 full time vacancies at the start of the 1989/90 school year , but the six teachers ' unions reported an extensive survey which showed total vacancies of more than 8,000 affecting at least 250,000 children . |