Example sentences of "but [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were great stylists and for them history was the ultimate tribunal before which the actions of rulers and others can be judged , ‘ but where Thucydides was a magistrate , Tacitus was an advocate — the most brilliant , perhaps , who ever sought to determine the judgement of Time , but an advocate all the same ’ . |
| 2 | Often they are not unlike village schools , but where space was limited on a cramped city-centre site , multi-storeyed buildings were erected . |
| 3 | Squeeze packs therefore have a great deal to commend them but where quantities of wash water requiring dosing are high the amount of detergent thus available is too low . |
| 4 | Martin Hardie wrote : ‘ Where all the plates are so excellent , it seems unfair to make distinctions , but where Daniell especially excels is in suggesting the warm haze that hangs over a summer sea , or sunlight playing on the roofs of a fishing village and the walls of its harbour . |
| 5 | But where industries are dominated by the market-share/experience curve effects , the logic underlying the BCG model can be a useful aid to thinking about the policy of SBUs in those particular industries . |
| 6 | Not only that , but where bipeds like coelurosaurs and carnosaurs increasingly had only vestigial front legs , the sauropods like Brachiosaurus ) instead began to grow their front legs longer than their hind ones . |
| 7 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 8 | But where Morse likes his real ale , 16-stone Guarnaccia just ca n't stop stuffing himself with real Italian cooking . |
| 9 | The French proposals had four key institutional ingredients : a council of government heads or foreign ministers that would meet regularly , but where decisions would be taken only by unanimous agreement ; a permanent secretariat based in Paris which would also be intergovernmental since it would be composed of ‘ senior officials of the Foreign Affairs Department of each Member State ’ ; four permanent intergovernmental committees to take care of the policy fields of foreign affairs , defence , commerce and cultural affairs ; and a European assembly whose members would be appointed by the national legislatures . |
| 10 | Similarly , an imaginary case in which I would claim to know that p , but where p is false , will succeed in preventing me from claiming to know that p in a new case which is not relevantly ( i.e. , discernibly to me ) different . |
| 11 | Thus where p = 1 , the goods are perfect substitutes , but where p < 1 , diversity is valued . |
| 12 | But where Kant then found a place for religious faith in the realm of practical reason , in ethics and morals , Schleiermacher held that this too was inadequate . |
| 13 | This usually just rests in place ( it 's rather heavy ) , but where inspection chambers are inside a house ( unusual except where an extension has been built on ) , the manhole is screwed down and has to be specially sealed . |
| 14 | But where music has been a constant right through the ages , cinema has been a product of its time . |
| 15 | People seem to be able to identify easily with the small local council such as the parish or town council which represents an identifiable local community , such as a village or small town and also with their traditional county , but where areas have neither an identifiable community nor an historical association , problems can develop . |
| 16 | Will the Government set standards to be imposed contractually , possibly linked to a Passenger 's Charter but where compensation is easily obtained to where consistently poor performance results in withdrawal of the contract ? |
| 17 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 18 | At least if there is a uniform a rule is seen to exist , but it is in schools where there is no uniform but where girls are prevented from wearing trousers that the greatest conflict can arise . |
| 19 | Providing posts are of the correct spacing , replacement is easy , but where posts are closer , a panel may have to be cut to size . |
| 20 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 21 | In this regard , data on the helix-coil melting transition in single strands of DNA and RNA present an opportunity to study structure formation that benefits from base stacking interactions ( analogous to those found in the double stranded helix ) , but where hydrogen bonds play a minor role in structure stabilisation ( and then only involve ribose hydroxyl groups in single stranded RNA ) . |
| 22 | The Directive allowed a margin of discretion in introducing national laws but where problems arise over interpretation of the Act reference may be had to the Directive . |
| 23 | But where America leads , we follow . |
| 24 | But where provision is organised on the principle of selectivity , as in the health and personal welfare sectors , more complex assessment is required in order both to ration ( or target ) resources , and to link correctly an applicant to what is available . |
| 25 | Both sides of the House could and should support most of its provisions , but where improvements are necessary we shall be pressing them on the Minister , and I hope that we shall receive as fair a hearing from him as I have tried to give his Bill this afternoon . |
| 26 | He was a nice man , and she quite liked him , but where Ven 's charm came naturally , Lubor was laying it on with a trowel . |
| 27 | Although its effect on the circulation of wild polioviruses has not been established , the incorporation of a single supplemental dose of IPV into vaccination regimens could substantially reduce the number of paralyses in countries where immunisation coverage with 3 or more doses of OPV is high ( 90% ) , but where immunogenicity studies have revealed large gaps in immunity to poliovirus types 1 and 3 . |
| 28 | They do not deny change ; but where Pirenne 's followers saw decomposition , they detect signs of economic activity of a new kind . |
| 29 | The community is confined to inaccessible cliffs or sides of ravines where grazing and burning are unlikely , but where trees can not grow . |
| 30 | But where societies have areas , sectors or elites still undergoing this process . |