Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun pl] ' " 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 Japanese companies ' business with Boeing is now under threat , forcing them to rethink their strategy . |
| 4 | But cognitive theories ' rationalism is male-identified , drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical , coherent thought . |
| 5 | But cognitive theories ' dominance within psychological discourse induces many feminists to recapitulate these theories , overlooking their subtler gender biases . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But these theories ' notions of culturally stable femininity often elide with their concept of a biologically stable individual . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | But egalitarian feminists ' dependency on traditional psychological theory means that they often reproduce its limited formulations of subjectivity and gender . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |