Example sentences of "but [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 2 | She was uncertain as to the position of this girl whom she knew to be daughter to a washerwoman but whom the dowager-duchess , a lady of formal demeanour and rigid etiquette , none the less treated as one of higher status . |
| 3 | Yeah , but I the man |
| 4 | Yes I I I Yeah sorry to interrupt , I mean I follow the arguments you 've used within the document but I the figure which the H H B F have attributed to vacant dwellings for example is just under two thousand five hundred . |
| 5 | Jacob was no longer a trickster in the Joseph story , but himself the victim of the duplicity of his sons who convinced him that his favourite Joseph was dead . |
| 6 | Most major banks have fraud departments to deal with the problem … but its the customer who ends up paying . |
| 7 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 8 | In searching a small file it is also likely that users will enter a good many words which are correct but which the system does not know . |
| 9 | The first two are physiological measures which are related to arousal but which the driver may not actually be directly aware of . |
| 10 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 11 | Everyone assumes that students know how to make and use their notes , and yet time and time again a piece of work does not receive the grade it deserves because crucial material or ideas have been left out ; often this is information which the lecturer gave out in classes but which the student did not note down . |
| 12 | It was basically a neighbourly association of kin and workmates , not dissimilar to that which existed in many urban working-class neighbourhoods , but which the outsider could find virtually impenetrable . |
| 13 | Ancillary consents are those which technically require formal consent but which the purchaser does not consider as being significant to the business . |
| 14 | It can point to structural features not evident to the non-linguistic critic , but which the critic must admit may well be an important source of effect . |
| 15 | Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter . |
| 16 | Yeah but you the thermostat on your tank is telling should be telling that that you 've got a cold tank that 's what thermostat 's for . |
| 17 | His days are now numbered as Chancellor , but who the Hell cares about Norman Lamont ? |
| 18 | But who the hell IS John Bryan |
| 19 | But one the Sun enters Gemini on the 19th and makes a decisive aspect to Jupiter on the 26th , the worst will be over . |
| 20 | But whoever the mystery buyer is , the manor will remain closed to the public . |
| 21 | Mrs James knows they were taken to Kendal , Cumbria , and then to Essex , but there the trail was lost . |
| 22 | A station featured as an important part of the design of Le Corbusier for the New Punjabi capital at Chandigarh , but there the station with its ramps , car-parks , and adjacent bus station was mainly designed to benefit the internal combustion engine . |
| 23 | Jellyfish-like Ediacaran forms have been compared with ‘ true ’ jellyfish , or scyphozoans , but there the evidence is more tenuous . |
| 24 | But there the resemblance to the old movie queens stopped . |
| 25 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , her opposite number at the Department of Health , shares with Mrs Shephard a mild manner , a sharp mind and a rapid rise — but there the resemblance ends . |
| 26 | The stairs and bannisters were the ones she knew , the door to the sitting room and the one into the kitchen were in their familiar places but there the resemblance ended . |
| 27 | This may occur in Keegan 's ‘ global company ’ but there the emphasis lies more in the company 's approach to products and markets , without the same global integration of flows of resources , ideas and people . |
| 28 | But there the likeness ends . |
| 29 | But there the county equivalents covered very large areas and were called regions rather than counties . |
| 30 | But there the analysis ends : there is no clear parallel to the apparent inability of some sufferers to get into substantial recovery , if at all , and there is nothing to correspond to the process of relapse even when , on the face of it , all recommendations are being followed . |