Example sentences of "but [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This endorsement should be applied to policies covering properties which are leased out but where only the Contents are covered . |
| 2 | Some of these will be remembered for years to come , not only in Halling but where ever the cement barges called . |
| 3 | But if exactly the same type of accident as occurred in the Russian RBMK could not occur in a British PWR , was that the end of the story ? |
| 4 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 5 | Usually , it is assumed that Clovis must be the monarch in question , but if so the failure to name him is peculiar : his reputation might have been expected to add lustre to the code . |
| 6 | Guessing what might greet her in the canteen , she opted for sandwiches in the laboratory , but because today no one else on the team was prepared to forgo his lunch-hour proper she was on her own until she was interrupted . |
| 7 | But because only a small part of the mutation load is likely to be due to alleles with major effects , this gives little error . |
| 8 | But since only a limited amount could be achieved within the overloaded RHA capital programme , it was decided to select two for a closure programme within the strategic planning period ( 1983 to 1993 ) . |
| 9 | But since only the score achieved so far is used , no account is taken of the possibility of right context effects increasing the score of the whole path . |
| 10 | But while corporately the bank has adopted a positive approach , Mosson admits this is not always reflected in individual behaviour . |
| 11 | But while only a fool would argue that smoking is harmless , many people remain blissfully ignorant about the dangers of the sun . |
| 12 | But whereas aesthetically the transformation and revitalization of conventions may be motivated ultimately , even in its classical forms , by a desire for a verisimilitude guaranteed by ‘ public opinion ’ , the need of the industry for new exploitation angles may exceed this aesthetic impulse , going beyond verisimilitude to the point where a series takes its significance not from an agreed or conventionalized similarity to the world , but from its difference to other series . |
| 13 | She had n't thought she would understand what Fand meant ; but after only a moment the sense came to her that she was looking at a prisoner — at someone captive , helpless . |
| 14 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 15 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
| 16 | ‘ At first the pilots and navigators will mostly go their separate ways and concentrate on the subjects peculiar to their own calling , but after about a week they will be crewed-up — one pilot , one nav/observer , and one nav/plotter to a crew on the bomber side and a pilot and a navigator on the PR — and from then on will attend lectures and do drills as crew members . |
| 17 | Much patience is needed , but when eventually the cat does accept its new home , it will probably become the most loving and affectionate of all feline pets . |
| 18 | We might perhaps hope that one species lingered on , like the brachiopod Lingla , in some inaccessible part of the sea , but as even the deep sea faunas become well-known this possibility is fading . |
| 19 | There was growing pressure on the College to receive the diseased horses of subscribers , but as yet no stables were ready . |
| 20 | This illustrates dramatically the influence of the individual nucleons on the nuclear size , but as yet no quantitative calculations have been able to reproduce the effect . |
| 21 | But as yet no genie had materialised , no matter how hard she metaphorically rubbed the magic lamp . |
| 22 | The club house , which looked like a turreted Ruritanian castle , had white walls , grey roofs , flawless pitches front and back , but as yet no windows , nor , as Perdita suspected , a Ladies ' loo , or changing room . |
| 23 | The fine gauge machine has a lace carriage , but as yet no one has developed a chunky machine that will take a lace carriage . |
| 24 | Sure , we 've got plenty on them , but as yet no conclusive proof and the three A's — Andropulos , Aristotle and Alexander — are a close-mouthed and secretive lot and we can be certain they wo n't talk to us or give anything away . |
| 25 | I understand that the Scottish Home and Health Department has set up a working party to consider this issue , but as yet no recommendations have been made . |
| 26 | But in 1900 these uncertainties were still in the future ; there were clouds , as William Thomson described them , hanging over some classical theories , but as yet no thunder and lightning . |
| 27 | But as yet no feature of parenting has been convincingly established as being a causal factor in the first onset of the disorder despite observations by numerous investigators that parent-child relationships are often atypical in a number of ways . |
| 28 | But as yet no action has been taken by British government departments . |
| 29 | Since then some 20 other specimens have been found , including three complete skins , but as yet no living Vu Quang ox has been sighted by scientists . |
| 30 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |