Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few ( general managers ) they are inspirational , but for many they remain superficial , the focus of entrenched scepticism . |
| 2 | Executive Job Clubs have been set up , but for many they are havens of retreat where preconceptions can be themselves an obstacle to the need for change . |
| 3 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
| 4 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 5 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 6 | These clothes are being modelled around the country all week , but after that they 'll be back on the Oxfam rails . |
| 7 | Both batsmen benefited from early dropped catches , Moxon on three and Kellett , 18 , but after that they were in charge . |
| 8 | They can then apply for a further 24-hour extension but after that they must charge or release the pair . |
| 9 | But after mid-1962 they proliferated and considered a wide range of domestic and international issues . |
| 10 | Mind you , I felt a bit mean at being amused , but after all they had only themselves to blame . |
| 11 | The Romans , too , avoided total absorption in Hellenistic modes of thought , but after all they were politically independent and soon became more powerful than any Hellenistic kingdom . |
| 12 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 13 | They were comfortably beaten by Leicestershire on their Championship debut and will plainly find it hard to bowl sides out , but against that they won four of their first five one-day matches and indicated they could be serious contenders for a trophy . |
| 14 | But above all they seem to like an eyrie just beneath the eaves of the barn roof . |
| 15 | Both Victoria and Albert were delighted with the Emperor 's charm and amiability , but above all they were captivated by Eugènie ‘ the dear , sweet Empress ’ , though the Queen confided to the Emperor that she realized how difficult her role must be for someone who had not been brought up to it . |
| 16 | But above all they bring home the fragility of human power to rescue us from despair and the absence of hope . |
| 17 | ‘ They will have the same powers as the larger UDCs , but above all they will create the business-friendly environment and single minded approach which are the necessary preconditions for regeneration . ’ |
| 18 | They resent the disclosure of inconvenient truths , but above all they fear the disclosure that things need not be the way they are . |
| 19 | The Wages Act 1986 and the Employment Act 1989 radically altered the financing of redundancy payments by abolishing the government 's subsidy of employers ' redundancy costs.i These changes , which herald another shift in the purpose of the legislation , bring into question the role of redundancy payments and their relationship with the social security system , but above all they put a higher premium on dismissing the cheapest workers . |
| 20 | Sharks have huge oily livers , which increase buoyancy , but in general they are obliged to keep swimming to provide enough lift to avoid sinking ; though some species , in practice , are happy to rest on the bottom . |
| 21 | Giant tortoises in the past have existed on continents or quasi-continents ( both on South America and Madagascar ) but in general they are island animals . |
| 22 | Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them . |
| 23 | But in general they must be the same as those discussed for the replicators of Chapter 2 : longevity , fecundity , and copying-fidelity . |
| 24 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 25 | Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 26 | But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out . |
| 27 | The lives of articulate people can be more interesting than fiction , but in general they would bore viewers more than the new vogue of delving into every aspect of sexual behaviour in discussion programmes . |
| 28 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 29 | They were later to acquire the vague title of ‘ Nepmen ’ , but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon , and even by the end of NEP it was not possible , despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts , to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole . |
| 30 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |