Example sentences of "but [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Communists ' most dramatic political intervention was the Second Front Campaign . |
| 2 | The episode may seem to illustrate sheer bloodymindedness , but the platers ' action was not unreasonable from their point of view . |
| 3 | But the employers ' organisation says the rate of manufacturing pay rises is overstated because of the number of pay freezes . |
| 4 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 5 | But the bishops ' statement does not say so . |
| 6 | But the bishops ' warning may harm Herri Batasuna and sober up the many Basques who have persuaded themselves that ETA terrorists are a kind of latter day Knights Templar , wielding car bombs and Uzzis for greater Basque liberty . |
| 7 | Nicol , capped four times last year , was due to fly home yesterday but the Lions ' anxiety about Jones 's throat infection caused the management to ask Nicol to travel from Western Samoa to New Plymouth . |
| 8 | Nicol , capped four times last year , was due to fly home yesterday but the Lions ' anxiety about Jones 's throat infection caused the management to ask Nicol to travel from Western Samoa to New Plymouth . |
| 9 | Graham Money played superbly for 73 , but the leaders ' hopes of an eighth win from 10 games were frustrated , despite another superb exhibition of spin bowling by John O'Brien . |
| 10 | But the refugees ' horror stories have not changed . |
| 11 | The move had the desired effect but the Indians ' ‘ Friendship Tour ’ was also threatened yesterday by a sex scandal . |
| 12 | Midfield dynamo Dave Gilbert and striker Mendonca linked well on the left , but the visitors ' defence held firm , ensuring Grimsby 's forward thrusts rarely progressed further than the midfield . |
| 13 | Not all patrols escaped the attention of Japanese counter-measure , however , but the Australians ' skilful use of field craft — the infantry phrase for individuals ' movement in action — saved many losses . |
| 14 | But the doctors ' lawyers augue the case can not be allowed to go ahead after such a long delay . |
| 15 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 16 | In fact in Duru [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 2 the Court of Appeal thought that both charges in relation to the thing in action represented by the cheque and to the paper itself were to be upheld but the judges ' minds were not directed at this issue whether property must exist at the time of the obtaining . |
| 17 | But the girls ' whispering had been right . |
| 18 | But the conservatives ' influence has lately seemed on the wane . |
| 19 | Unlike a winding-up , the board of directors does not become functus officio on the appointment of a receiver but the directors ' powers are substantially superseded since they can not act so as to interfere with the discharge by the receiver of his responsibilities and accordingly their powers are suspended ‘ so far as is requisite to enable a receiver to discharge his functions . ’ |
| 20 | But the Kuwaitis ' tactics and timing are interesting : as holder of the only stake smaller than Hongkong 's they ought to have been able to sway what threatened to be a contested offer . |
| 21 | They established that , in the first instance , shipowners would automatically meet the cost of oil spills , through insurance cover which they would be obliged to carry ; but the owners ' liability was to be limited to a maximum of $18m . |
| 22 | But the officers ' dedication led to the conviction of Carl Dodds , of Blackfell , Washington , who was jailed for six years at Durham Crown Court last December for robbery . |
| 23 | But the miners ' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note . |
| 24 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 25 | But the miners ' attitude was frightening . |
| 26 | But the miners ' roadshow did n't work . |
| 27 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 28 | Tarry 's first mount , Bright as a Button , was out-galloped in the Restricted by John Sharp on five-year-old Aldington Baron , but the riders ' roles were reversed in the Maiden ( Div 2 ) when Tarry forced St Laycar up to beat Sharp on River Spirit . |
| 29 | The dogs were faster than the ponies — they ran quickly over the top of the snow , but the ponies ' feet went through it . |
| 30 | Pebbles was an outstanding racehorse , but the Breeders ' Cup bid was none the less a characteristically bold move on the part of trainer Clive Brittain , for the Turf race is over one and a half miles and she had never raced beyond ten furlongs . |