Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It therefore seemed possible that referral rates would be higher among fundholders than among control practices in the year before the introduction of budgets , but that fundholders ' NHS referral rates would then fall . |
| 2 | But that millionaires ' playground in the south of France was a far cry from York 's precarious predicament — eighth from bottom of the League , gates dwindling to below 2,000 and their bank balance in similar decline — when Ward answered the call . |
| 3 | But this women 's suffrage element is only a part of the second item 's subject field and not explicit in the title ; it would require competent and perceptive indexing to bring it out , if it was desired that this should be attempted in the index . |
| 4 | But Japanese companies ' business with Boeing is now under threat , forcing them to rethink their strategy . |
| 5 | The other announcement erm is er Dr has asked me to address some delinquents , no that 's not fair , some er hard working but misguided students erm tt er who are doing a political processes course , a sort of pale imitation of this course , erm probably find none of them are here today , let's , let's , let's , let's , let's b let's not be shy now , is erm is Ian here ? |
| 6 | But cognitive theories ' rationalism is male-identified , drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical , coherent thought . |
| 7 | But cognitive theories ' dominance within psychological discourse induces many feminists to recapitulate these theories , overlooking their subtler gender biases . |
| 8 | Several admirable but narrow-banded supporters ' organisations rail and rattle at the iniquity of it all and occasionally they are even permitted to have a say at the distant end of a long table . |
| 9 | I was accustomed to wealthy Americans treating their children to lavish rewards for completing extremely average educations , but three months ' charter aboard Wavebreaker seemed uncommonly generous , even to a man as famously wealthy as Senator Crowninshield . |
| 10 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 11 | Comparisons in blood are an inadequate measure of courage or military achievement , but these raiders ' losses were a far greater proportion of their force — 369 from 611 army and naval personnel — than were lost in the World War I blocking of Zeebrugge when 195 men were killed from a force of 1,784 . |
| 12 | But these theories ' notions of culturally stable femininity often elide with their concept of a biologically stable individual . |
| 13 | But these guys ai n't like me . |
| 14 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 15 | ‘ Hard to break down , but visiting patients ' homes , relatives , neighbours , corner shops , hospitals , GPs , private and local authority Part III Homes , social services , health centres , area clinics , day centres . |
| 16 | But egalitarian feminists ' dependency on traditional psychological theory means that they often reproduce its limited formulations of subjectivity and gender . |
| 17 | He 's given me three dates when he 'd be delighted to meet us erm Friday the thirtieth of April , four of May or fifth of May , but other dates a as necessary . |
| 18 | In principle , a file could be arranged in descending order , but most manufacturers ' software checks that the order is ascending and , if it is not , halts until the input order is corrected . |
| 19 | At this college there was a small but active women 's group . |
| 20 | But institutional investors ' reaction so far has been unenthusiastic or even hostile , and without their support the APB 's ideas will never get off the ground . |