Example sentences of "[pron] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No no er erm well er there is Prunus that 's a plum I mean a cherry that grows up and various ones like that the only trouble is with these type of things they can be more of a nuisance than the trees that you do have now because those trees growing up those spindly ones as you put it erm some gardeners call them or whatever name they use I but the trouble is bits die in the centre of those and they tend to drop down and they can be in time more far more of a nuisance than the trees they 've got now which seems to me quite suitable . |
| 2 | I know , nor do I but the more you talked about it the more she 'll do it . |
| 3 | Yes and I enlarge my but the trouble is it make we went every day after |
| 4 | So it 's a drain on , on the time , not just his but the knock-on effect . |
| 5 | Cloughie probably gets closest to it — not he himself but the No. 9 seems to have his head screwed on . |
| 6 | The user of the vehicle is the owner of the vehicle or the person in whose possession it is under some hiring or leasing agreement ; this is often not the driver himself but the driver 's employer or principal . |
| 7 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 8 | One of the never mentioned delights of the silent cinema was that you crunched and sucked to your heart 's content , annoying nobody but the piano player . |
| 9 | ( Holly 1971:9 ) Nobody but the teacher can make such decisions or deploy such skills |
| 10 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 11 | Certainly give them , yeah and I said Joan will tell you not only does her but the table that he sits on and the wall around it , |
| 12 | It ties in with the fifth principle that ‘ personal data shall be accurate and , where necessary , kept up-to-date ’ — a formidable requirement , if taken literally , in view of the frequency with which personal details ( address , etc. ) can change , and also bearing in mind the possible diversity of sources of information ; and who but the data subject can be the true judge of accuracy — unless of course he may have an interest in falsifying the record ? |
| 13 | Changing direction wo n't exactly bring out the Mansell in you but the power steering — in theory the same as that fitted to the others — reacts swiftly and smoothly , and understeer is significantly less than that of the 1.4 GLX . |
| 14 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 15 | It 's too big to take out with you but the drawings and descriptions of over 300 common British birds are great for teaching beginners what to look out for when trying to identify a new bird . |
| 16 | My child , said Mufaro her father , that is very kind of you but the king is the person who is going to choose . |
| 17 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 18 | I dare say somebody 's already said it to you but the family were very comforted and grateful for your service . |
| 19 | got toothbrushes to give you but the |
| 20 | the apocalypse and all the people atheists and one where ah the Christians , Christians over there please well I 'm sorry to tell you but the jews were right |
| 21 | I do n't know what form it takes mind you but the Of course , another thing about those new houses those new hous , I think the ma new road will go just up over here . |
| 22 | The reason destroying it now would be no solution , he wrote , is that what sickens me is not the object itself but the time and thought I have put into it . |
| 23 | She had refused to stay in the vast Sandringham House itself but the Queen offered her nearby Wood Farm . |
| 24 | In Shakespearian tragedy , hypocrisy is not only a poison in itself but the cause of ever greater destruction . |
| 25 | To claim money as a major human goal is not to make any specific claim about ‘ human nature ’ ( such as its mercenariness ) since it is not so much a goal in itself but the facilitator of almost all possible human goals — expressive , artistic , acquisitive or whatever . |
| 26 | Moreover , most users who did actually want to come off were reacting , not to heroin itself but the associated dangerous and stressful lifestyle . |
| 27 | In any experience , for instance , involving a man and a difficult horse he wishes to master , the most important element is not the animal itself but the man 's mind ; and especially that part of his mind over which he has no immediately willed or conscious control . |
| 28 | Working the 12 step Programme is not an end in itself but the method by which the sufferer is transformed from negativity to positively , from sickness to health and from a life of belligerence and blaming to a life that focuses upon creativity and an attitude of gratitude . |
| 29 | The limiting factor in terms of future developments is not technology itself but the creative insight with which applications of technology are developed and a sensitivity towards the needs and concerns of the individuals affected . |
| 30 | Performance should clearly speak for itself but the English and Welsh system for some time lacked ( and now needs ) evaluation and evaluation which can be clearly expressed . |