Example sentences of "but [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mike Sheron did not cost £1.2 million and he does n't speak French but no-one in the Premier League has made swifter progress this season . |
| 32 | They said he understood the risks of the job but everyone on the case agrees it was a pointless killing . |
| 33 | The overall responsibility for the organisation of the ward learning programme can be delegated to one particular member of staff , but everyone in the ward team should participate . |
| 34 | But everyone in the close knit village of Edlesborough knew who she was ’ . |
| 35 | He tried to argue , but everyone in the room knew that the battle was lost before it had even begun . |
| 36 | But everyone in the Zoo knew of his love for this particular eagle though all through the years he had resolutely refused ever to handle her . |
| 37 | The girl 's name , according to the house advertising , was Coco Wunderbar , but everyone in the dressing rooms called her Jeanette . |
| 38 | But everyone in the group , association , whatever you want to call it , has been a user . |
| 39 | ‘ I agree it is a difficult format , but everyone in the Clandeboye squad is bursting to do well . |
| 40 | The old man never wrote because he could n't write , but everyone in the East End knew that if you did n't get one of those brown envelopes pushed under your door the member of your family who was away at the war must still be alive . |
| 41 | I 'm going to change subjects now , but if you want to come back to the Gulf , do feel free , the lines are open on three double one , one double one , but I in the meantime we 'll take a couple of calls on different subjects erm let's go to June from Shillingford , hello June . |
| 42 | In 1936 it looked as if the game had finally made a breakthrough when a national competition , involving teams from Gorky , Minsk , Baku and Moscow , was organised ; but someone at the Kremlin decreed that rugby was a capitalist pastime , and the game sank into oblivion once again . |
| 43 | A man may pursue power simply as a means to employ others for his own purposes , but someone with the true passion for power will betray , by exceeding any rational design to control those useful or dangerous to his ends , that he does penetrate deep enough inside his subjects for the exhilaration of sensing their wills tense against his own and yield . |
| 44 | ‘ A man at Railfreight International was doing his best but someone along the line at York said it was too much hassle . |
| 45 | ‘ Oh , sorry to disturb you both , ’ he said , warily , ‘ but someone from the Senate has just rung up , Charles . |
| 46 | But someone from the family will have to have a look . ’ |
| 47 | As we saw there , Segal and Irigaray have recently elaborated this view , but its origins are clearly in Freud whose early case-studies , as Mitchell observes , originate the idea that ‘ the homosexual was choosing not another of the same sex , but himself in the guise of another ’ ( Psychoanalysis and Feminism , 34 ; see e.g. Freud , ix . |
| 48 | But nobody at The Valley , which a near-bankrupt Charlton left in 1985 to become uneasy tenants at Selhurst Park and Upton Park , is going to let the present apparent chaos spoil the greatest day in the club 's history since they won the FA Cup back in the glory days of 1947 . |
| 49 | Well , there were the usual inhabitants , of course , but nobody with the collar turned up reading a newspaper under a streetlamp , say . |
| 50 | ‘ I originally wanted it to be ‘ Gor ra Band ’ , but nobody in the USA understood ! |
| 51 | But plenty of the money spent by the parties in those frantic few weeks of the election itself , particularly on newspaper advertisements , will be fresh funds — which has to be good news for the media and agencies . |
| 52 | On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF . |
| 53 | Feminists need a more dynamic view of reading , one which maintains a political perspective , but which at the same time concedes that there is room for manoeuvre between text and audience . |
| 54 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 55 | She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea . |
| 56 | In consultation with colleges in 1989 , we planned the changeover to the new system over three years and three batches , providing , we hoped , a timetable which was not too rushed but which at the same time allowed centres to progress at a pace which met their candidates ' needs . |
| 57 | Even though banks hold only very small amounts of cash , they nevertheless hold a large amount of other relatively liquid assets which act as reserves , but which at the same time earn interest . |
| 58 | They were selected because it is clear that , judged by current psychiatric criteria , they all did suffer from episodes of psychosis — to introduce a technical term to be defined more precisely as we proceed through this and the following chapter , but which for the moment can be taken as synonymous with the layperson 's conception of mental illness as it occurs in its most disintegrative form and which especially refers to serious disorders , like schizophrenia . |
| 59 | A great many of them , out of respect for her , for him , for the grief which was meant to inhabit him , but which for the moment , he knew , he only represented . |
| 60 | In the inch wars , Ryvita helps you win — so goes the old advert punch line , but which of the two main Graphical User Interfaces is likely to be the one to give you the best operating environment ? |