Example sentences of "but [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the lanes must have once been extremely important , but nothing on the map nor indeed on the ground suggests this . |
| 2 | There was some social and political unrest , it is true , but nothing on the scale seen in Poland , Austria , Germany , Belgium and France . |
| 3 | However , many of my colleagues were a little concerned that they were being told of the final outcome , but nothing on the short term effects . ’ |
| 4 | But nothing on the scale of this . |
| 5 | But no-one on the left formulated a clear strategy of supporting military preparedness as a way of enabling the labour movement to increase its economic and political muscle — and thereby its ability to influence British foreign policy . |
| 6 | They said he understood the risks of the job but everyone on the case agrees it was a pointless killing . |
| 7 | Five hundred million years ago there was life in the sea but none on the land . |
| 8 | There are many reports of studies on the phase of DNA synthesis in normal colonic crypts , but none on the DNA distribution in epithelial cells in colonic crypts . |
| 9 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 10 | but something on the outskirts of the Garden City might be O K perhaps on the northern side |
| 11 | ‘ But we on the Right must fight back . ’ |
| 12 | But anything on the side would perhaps break it . |