Example sentences of "but [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this can not be avoided where odours emanate from existing premises and uses , but where new development is concerned planning authorities are in the unique position of being able to prevent odour pollution . |
| 2 | But where available floor space and amenities are concerned , there is no comparison between his design and the one that Dorothea might have chosen ( Fig. 22 ) . |
| 3 | This poses a problem similar to that of enterprises being progressively undercut by international competition but where long term protectionist measures are not justified : the best response may be to seek means of re-deploying the workers involved . |
| 4 | Moreover , the intricacy of the colouring can , and seems to be , influenced by horizontal and vertical circulation patterns in the atmosphere and by waves , both of which can transport material to altitudes where its colours are unstable but where insufficient time has elapsed for chemical reactions to have reached a new equilibrium corresponding to different colours . |
| 5 | I think it 's worth checking with the company concerned , but where caustic soda has been used , it leaves a whitish residue , and this should be washed off with clean water , then the wood allowed to dry . |
| 6 | But where explicit programming will not serve , it seems equally reasonable to direct an organism to fall back on ‘ thinking ’ , particularly when the solution to a problem can then , as in the case of imprinting , be wired into the system for later service . |
| 7 | The choice lies between print films with a narrower contrast range and variable colour balance depending on printing filtration , and reversal films with a higher contrast and resolution range but where subsequent correction is not possible . |
| 8 | But where true Absurdism , as Vera Blackwell pointed out , posited a meaningless universe , Havel 's aim was ‘ the improvement of man 's lot through the improvement of man 's institutions . ’ |
| 9 | The PAS-score approach however , can readily be used to identify companies which are financially sound and thus good credit risks , but where conventional analysis may have misread the situation . |
| 10 | But where local law is absent or ambiguous , and British courts have the opportunity to shape the law according to their notion of an appropriate public policy , they should give effect to the policy laid down by the Convention . |
| 11 | Marriage certificates , unfortunately , often enter ‘ Of full age ’ in the column marked ‘ Age ’ , but where precise information is given it is an easy step to go on to discover the birth certificates of the married couple . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that Cnut disposed of this threat , but where Holy River fits in is unclear . |
| 13 | There probably is such a trajectory , but that hypothetical trajectory , when realized in actual bodies of intermediate animals , proved disadvantageous temporarily disadvantageous only , but that is enough . |
| 14 | But although humanist theory takes as its object all the elements of subjectivity which empirical psychology 's concept of the subject excludes , it does not thereby challenge the structure of this concept . |
| 15 | But and green team that we have , and |
| 16 | But if Japanese involvement in the new world disorder is to grow , more deaths are unavoidable . |
| 17 | But if central government acts arrogantly , ignoring the advice of the experts , listening to the advice of favoured confidants to the exclusion of others and deciding that it ‘ knows best ’ , the outcome can be devastating . |
| 18 | Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections . |
| 19 | But if Russian effort was to be mainly inspired by government and executed by the military , the American was to be quintessentially capitalist . |
| 20 | But if international trade continues to grow and , in particular , if the creation of the single European market stimulates cross-border business in Europe , export factoring should increase in importance . |
| 21 | But if new growth breaks out too high on older wood , ( b ) , the stem can be cut out to encourage new growth from the base . |
| 22 | But if other person changes |
| 23 | But if individual membership doubled — in line with Labour 's 1991 campaign target — the proportions would shift dramatically : union voting strength would then be reduced to 55 per cent , with constituency parties having a 45 per cent share . |
| 24 | A senior Labour man told me that if the Tories win the General Election , Labour will go all out for PR , but if Labour win forget it . |
| 25 | But if electoral reform gives them a state they can respect , popular enthusiasm for all things European may ebb . |
| 26 | But if political mobilisation is seen as the key strategy with litigation as a contributory tactic , as Scheingold suggests , then it follows that legal challenge should not be conducted in isolation from other forms of pressure-group activity . |
| 27 | But if actual proof of unfortunate outcome confirms an underlying fear , which previously they may have repressed well , unconscious panic wins over rational argument . |
| 28 | But if comital liegelordship ( that superior bond to which all lesser allegiances must , in case of conflict , yield ) was less advanced in Champagne than in Normandy or Flanders , it completely outclassed that of any other secular or ecclesiastical lord within the county . |
| 29 | But if naval patronage did prove to be of considerable value to the Elphinstone family interest , reinforcing the impact of the Indian patronage distributed by Keith 's brother , William Elphinstone , the fleet could only provide patronage for those officers fortunate enough to be employed in a command in a suitable station far from Great Britain . |
| 30 | ‘ But if European funding is distributed strictly on a regional basis it will be spread so thinly it will not have an impact on Merseyside . ‘ |