Example sentences of "but [indef pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 2 | John Major 's speech-making qualities are , if anything , less impressive but nothing that six one-hour lessons from Miss Davies — £60 each plus VAT — would not have cured . |
| 3 | The broom was there , sawdust , a pile of dirty pots , two kegs of ale , but nothing that might do for a skirt . |
| 4 | But nothing that a good dietitian and orthodontist could n't put right . |
| 5 | She had been told that having children might present problems , but nothing that could not be managed . |
| 6 | But nothing that makes him public ; because that makes me public . ’ |
| 7 | For dysuria , for haematuria , slightly more possibly in the i in the Pasteur group but nothing that reaches statistical significance . |
| 8 | The transfer may become null and void , as here , or the certificate may not be renewed , as in Miller , but nothing that can happen to the transfer or transferee will ever revive the right of a man who , ex hypothesi , has removed or yielded up possession of the premises to which the certificate relates . " |
| 9 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 10 | She saw three public houses and a shop selling papers , but nothing that looked a likely candidate . |
| 11 | Francis could have been involved in something a bit shady but nothing that would have brought him within range of any violence . |
| 12 | Ms Izza said the love scenes were ‘ quite sensuous and in some parts possibly erotic , if your scale of erotic goes that low , but nothing that is overtly sexual . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But nothing that could n't wait . |
| 14 | I mean , he made a few comments a but nothing that anybody could tell . |
| 15 | I even sat on the local erm committee wi with the police authority , you know , and er we 've got all sorts of promises but nothing that has ever materialized . |
| 16 | But nothing and no one could ever really convince him that a world where fathers just disappeared one day and never returned could be anything other than a pitiful sham , a transparent hoax . |
| 17 | At Southend the worst of times for Oxford … but nothing and nobody is ever going to stop goals like these … |
| 18 | I really thought I was not only his girlfriend but someone that he really trusted because he knew I was energetic and dynamic and could get things done . ’ |
| 19 | Even at weekends we there 's nothing Saturday and Sunday , but somebody that we 'd lived with in West Yorkshire called us . |
| 20 | But somebody that likes experimenting and that , is aware of all the possibilities that are opening with computers , will in fact learn very quickly . |
| 21 | Mr Major produced some nominal figures , but none that proves he is an inflation-fighter . |
| 22 | Among the amphibians there are many with poisonous skins , but none that has a poisonous bite . |
| 23 | As Amina Okada , the author of this book points out , there have been numerous publications on Mughal art but none that have concentrated on the individual artists . |
| 24 | They found a number of flashes but none that could be definitely ascribed to gamma ray bursts from primordial black holes . |
| 25 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 26 | Additional pellet samples were obtained from single species of vulture , condor , crow and gull , but none provided large enough small mammal samples for analysis . |
| 27 | They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high . |
| 28 | Furthermore the way one sees things , and the values one holds , are not an individualist matter , but something that is shared with other people in a society . |
| 29 | When we see the sun , he says , the ‘ immediate object ’ of our perceiving mind is not the sun itself ‘ but something that is intimately joined to our soul , … an idea ’ . |
| 30 | But what we find in the resurrection of Jesus is not something that originates from the natural processes of life , but something that constitutes a unique event . |