Example sentences of "but [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions .
2 But where we have competed , accidentally in one case , deliberately in another , we 've been undercut by our rivals and we have n't got the job .
3 But where we are on Rotherhithe Road , it 's empty .
4 But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’
5 But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it .
6 ‘ We may not be in the same league as Servette but where we score over most teams is with our spirit .
7 Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great
8 But where they work , and age , and put off men
9 The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion .
10 These can be round , or five-sided , up to a centimetre or so across , and have a small hole in their centre ; the stems can look like corals to the casual observer , but where they are broken they show the typical echinoderm reflective surfaces .
11 Most of these changes are very minor , but where they are significant , we will inform you or your travel agent when you book or , if you have already booked , as soon as is reasonably possible if there is time before your departure .
12 Hydrocephalus and spina bifida may not cause mental handicap , but where they do , the handicap can be very severe , causing blindness , severe spasticity , paralysis and profound mental handicap .
13 Elsewhere , it was stressed that no one wished to interfere with the ‘ responsible and competent parent ’ , but where they were not so , ‘ action is needed either to reinforce the consciousness or replace the incompetency ’ .
14 Doubtless most industrialists in the UK would concur , but where they might fall out with him is on the definition of ‘ robot ’ ( See Box below ) .
15 Golf courses might seem a very obvious use for redundant farm land , but where they are most needed — in the crowded South East — they have met most resistance from the environmental and Nimby ( not in my back yard ) lobbies .
16 Where they still exist , it is important that they are not undermined ; but where they have withered away , we need to look to new models which take account of the changing patterns and forces in modern society .
17 Most of these possibilities exclude animals but where they do not ( we might , for example , feel it appropriate to praise the sheepdog by saying that it has earned the right to a good meal ) the attribution is clearly analogical since it is based upon such a slim comparison with human capacity .
18 But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms .
19 But where they are subject to decay or vandalism , they are sometimes set up as finds for display in museums .
20 ‘ ( 1 ) strict rules of evidence were inherently inappropriate in a court concerned to decide whether there were substantial grounds for believing something , such as a court considering an application under the Bail Act 1976 ; ( 2 ) when considering an opposed application for bail justices were bound to investigate an alleged change of circumstance but where they erred by refusing so to do their subsequent order was not rendered void , although a court with appropriate jurisdiction could interfere to set it aside .
21 But where they fell down , they should have told you that was what would happen
22 Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them .
23 The Partial Indemnity Clause will apply to group schemes e.g. vehicles in the ownership or control of a firm or association and otherwise eligible for fleet terms but where they are in fact insured in the name of particular individuals .
24 But where they and the study immediately differed was where , as , group finance director at John Menzies , said , it ‘ set off on a diverging track ’ from what they perceive is already best practice albeit only among the major companies .
25 Ace had warned her they would be leaving by helicopter , but where they would be going she had no idea .
26 But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church
27 These Rules may be disapplied by agreement in the case of non-private investors but where they apply they require that money is only held with certain approved banks and that the money in the account is , to the bank 's knowledge , a trust fund .
28 ‘ More money should be spent , but where they [ Glasgow District Council ] get it from is a political matter . ’
29 They have n't got the facilities , facilities could n't be anywhere but where they are , and that 's how , erm , Beefeaters do their , set their bars up .
30 There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose .
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