Example sentences of "but [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the insert cap had stuck to the outer cap of the bottle and had come off — so instead of adding just a couple of drops , half the contents of the bottle went in . |
| 2 | But the cow man he wore his cap w with the peak over h er er the back of his head . |
| 3 | I tried to explain my problem with the monoglot at window five , but the ticket lady just shook her head and said : ‘ You must take another ticket . |
| 4 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 5 | The suit she was wearing was the colour and texture of sacking , a foreign-looking suit somehow with those buttoned pockets , but the ticket collector was willing to bet it had n't cost a penny less than forty guineas . |
| 6 | But the exclusivity principle does not apply to all such applications : some are what I have called hybrid judicial review actions and such actions need not , but may , be brought under Ord. 53 . |
| 7 | But the opening day belonged to Zimbabwe-born Hick , the man who has suffered huge mental torment since becoming eligible for England in April , 1991 . |
| 8 | But the opening date has been delayed . |
| 9 | He opened her handbag , but the address book revealed nothing . |
| 10 | All these approaches have had a degree of success , but the drug scene is a dynamic , creative one where just as one drug seems to be under control , a new threat emerges . |
| 11 | But the CV Society was there . |
| 12 | But the thriller element does no damage to the message and helps the story along for even the most committed viewer . |
| 13 | There is a promise , and strength of quality in their songwriting , but The Prayer Boat appear to have some way to paddle before they find a grasp of the studio techniques they will need to coax real spirit from their music . |
| 14 | Er , we will , but the pecking order er , the pecking order is the subject of agreement and it 's public . |
| 15 | But the cuckoo clock poked out its head and called nine o'clock and there she was , in Uncle Philip 's house . |
| 16 | But the word romance has for most people the immediate association of love and , in the main , of heterosexual love . |
| 17 | But the word love had not been mentioned . |
| 18 | one could perhaps use the term ‘ society ’ just as well , but the word culture , with its connotations of the way of life of a people , seems preferable because of the potential influence of the curriculum on ideas , beliefs , values and habits . |
| 19 | It was only a few lines , it was tucked away , all very low key , but the word murder was there to be seen and read . |
| 20 | Some sort of trouble , the exact nature was not precisely clear , but the word murder began to creep in . |
| 21 | The I S O Nine Thousand document uses the term , nonconforming product , but the word product er is a very broad word , it 's actually defined in I S O Nine Thousand as meaning product or service , and it can be anybody 's product or service . |
| 22 | But the word backside outraged him to the depths of his soul . |
| 23 | The test sentences had an average intended word length of about 7 , and an average phoneme length of 26 , but the word graph contained many overlapping words . |
| 24 | But the word earendel is strange , not ordinary Old English , and evidently pre-dating its context ; Tolkien was caught by a difference of texture , prompting his own verses on ‘ The Voyage of Earendel ’ , in 1914 , and the reply to G. B. Smith 's question as to what they were about , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 25 | But the committee chairman , the Labour MP , Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ Either changes are made , I hope along the lines that we recommend , or I very much fear statutory regulation to which I am very , very much opposed . ’ |
| 26 | " Unprecedented guarantees " on these latter issues had led the government to drop nuclear power from its electricity privatization programme in November 1989 [ see p. 37159 ] , but the committee report described these guarantees as " clearly necessary " . |
| 27 | The front bed needles are all knitting , but the back bed needles do nothing at all . |
| 28 | For shorter boards the same principles apply , but the back position does not make the board faster as the board planes on too small a surface and becomes difficult to control |
| 29 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 30 | But the back seat passenger was Michael Johnson , an armed robber with a history of prison escapes . |