Example sentences of "but they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had their moments of flair but they wasted good midfield work with speculative shots into the stand . |
| 2 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 3 | But they sounded different coming from the Lieutenant 's mouth . |
| 4 | Entomopathogenic fungi — those causing disease in insects — have also been used in pest biocontrol , but they require high humidity . |
| 5 | Such details are hardly at the heart of ‘ introducing major operational change ’ , which the Government 's Teaching Company Scheme ( TCS ) proposes , but they form intriguing by-products . |
| 6 | Such details are hardly at the heart of ‘ introducing major operational change ’ , which the Government 's Teaching Company Scheme ( TCS ) proposes , but they form intriguing by-products . |
| 7 | The dispersion of adult reproductive males resembles that of females when food is poor , but they form large groups utilizing ranges in common at other times . |
| 8 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 9 | But they prefer wet places where they can hunt for frogs , fish , molluscs , crustaceans and worms . |
| 10 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 11 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 12 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 13 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 14 | Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine , but they had grave disadvantages . |
| 15 | The appointment and overthrow of individual emperors were largely matters of Italian politics , but they had significant repercussions in Gaul , not least because of the close personal connections between Ricimer and the Burgundian royal family , the Gibichungs . |
| 16 | I mean not just filthy i er bodily but they had filthy habits . |
| 17 | They were ungainly vehicles with double-flight stairs and short canopies , but they had top covers and Brill 22E bogies , which were more reliable than the Brush bogies under their own cars . |
| 18 | They administered education in conformity with the law and the controls on grants for special places but they had considerable autonomy within those constraints . |
| 19 | But they admit individual agents only on the terms on which a natural scientist admits individual and particular objects . |
| 20 | Friends had warned Mitchum to steer clear of this hustler , but they became close friends . |
| 21 | All the birds in the forest knew about them ; but they took good care to keep away when Cassowary and Bower-bird came racketing through the jungle . |
| 22 | Nor are there any madrigalian extravagances in Hassler 's madrigals ; they make good use of antiphony between higher and lower voice-groups as in the openings of ‘ Ach Schatz , ich thu dir klagen ’ and ‘ Fahr hin , guts Liedelein ’ ; but they lack rhythmic spring . |
| 23 | There are no formal ties between the national clearinghouses but they maintain regular contact , and exchange information , newsletters and materials . |
| 24 | The rigs were all dry of course , but they carried huge stocks of other duty free goods , mainly tobacco and cigarettes . |
| 25 | But they keep Soviet might in mind , however remote the threat now seems . |
| 26 | But they remain firm friends , and David has nothing but praise for the way his former girlfriend has handled stardom . |
| 27 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 28 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 29 | Not only are their resources in demand , but they make powerful appeals to instinct and emotion . |
| 30 | They do not ‘ solve ’ intractable problems , but they make other organizations carry the can for policy failures , a factor which commonly underlies systems which accord wide discretion to local governments . |