Example sentences of "but [art] [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Loyalist Prisoners ' Welfare Association chairman , Jim McDonald , accused the prison authorities of turning a peaceful protest into ‘ bloody carnage . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rural clients ' problems can therefore be seen to be similar to their city counterparts , but the rural advisers ' problems are different . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the natural theologians ' assumption that God had designed a harmonious order of Nature was hardly a suitable basis upon which to build a modern science . |
| 9 | Maybe they were looking for traces of cement which would give the game away , but the excellent visitors ' centre explains that building materials such as cement were not available when the giant , Finn McCool , built the causeway . |
| 10 | But the big studios ' weakness is the cost of talent . |
| 11 | But a late Rangers ' free-kick hit him on his nearly-bald spot and bounced kindly for Dennis Bailey to rob United of a point . |
| 12 | I do n't know what you 've got planned , there , but a decent boys ' day school is not something to be entered into lightly , it 's a hell of a commitment , I mean I send mine to the local primary and hope for the best … |
| 13 | Davide Pittagora had been born in Rupe , ancient Rubi , a great centre of vase-painting , not quite as cosmopolitan as Taranto on the coast , for the Ionian port could attend a wealthier class of customer , but a distinguished artists ' colony , up in the fresher air of the hills , away from the hot sandpaper winds that blew the trade into Riba and her sister harbours , Dolmetta , Tirrani , and , further south , Brindisi . |
| 14 | Work on the 1,300MW power plant was due to begin in March or April , but an international donors ' meeting to set contributions for the $1,300 million project had been postponed in December . |