Example sentences of "but [adv] [conj] the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History will also record that Europe also shared the second series of Fourballs but only after the Americans came within a whisker of obliterating their lead altogether . |
| 2 | Northern Ireland came into being , but only after the Protestants had decided to give three of the counties of historic Ulster to the new Irish Free State . |
| 3 | Primitive mammals were known to have existed throughout the ‘ age of reptiles ’ , but only after the dinosaurs had gone did they diversify into a wide range of specialized forms . |
| 4 | Obviously existing kitchens can be made more efficient with more up-to-date equipment — bigger freezer and/or fridge , a dishwasher , waste disposal unit and so on — but only if the appliances work hard for you , save time and labour and generally make your particular way of life easier and more enjoyable . |
| 5 | She implored : ‘ If the immediate family breaks up the problems created can still be resolved but only if the children have been brought up from the very start with the feeling that they are wanted , loved and valued . ’ |
| 6 | Life events were three times more common among depressed patients and depressed women in the community than among nondepressed women ( 61 per cent , 68 per cent and 20 per cent ) , but only if the events constituted a marked or moderate long-term threat and focused on the woman herself or jointly with someone else . |
| 7 | The death sentences were commuted at the end of 1849 , but only when the prisoners had arrived at the place of execution and been led to believe , as Dostoevsky put it , that they " had no more than a minute left to live " . |
| 8 | Instead , a divorce will be there for the asking , but only when the parties have agreed on the finances and the children . |
| 9 | He would do so , wrote Edward , ‘ out of love for you who are our lord and cousin and our very dear friend ’ , but only when the Scots obeyed him as their liege lord . |
| 10 | Yes , I agree , ‘ if you mentioned clubs to most indie bands 18 months ago they would have spat in your face ’ , but only because the elitists controlled it . |
| 11 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 12 | Reporting his progress by radio , Smith said : ‘ Up to 25,000ft the going is good , but above that the ropes left by previous expeditions have been swept away . |
| 13 | De Gaulle 's lucidity on this point was eventually justified by events , but not before the Americans had made a concerted effort to eliminate him as a political force . |
| 14 | But just as the cameras start to roll for one particularly steamy scene in Rainbow 's secret movie , the director remembers she is not quite alone . |
| 15 | But just as the Americans looked to be heading to a heavy and humiliating defeat in their first ever game against Germany , they struck back with two goals in seven minutes to set up a tense finish . |
| 16 | PET scan studies of metabolic activity during various forms of cognitive performance have further reinforced this point , showing that not only is the left hemisphere more active than the right during linguistic function but also that the sub-areas implicated in language by the lesion studies are more active than surrounding areas . |
| 17 | This was achieved partly because of the beneficial effect of devaluation on overseas income for three months , it explains , but also because the directors have been largely successful in avoiding companies which have been forced to cut their dividends in the recession . |
| 18 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 19 | The last three West Indian wickets were also to fall cheaply , but before that the batsmen had done rather better ; Greenidge and Haynes posted another century partnership and Lloyd and Gomes both reached the nineties . |
| 20 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 21 | But even before the trustees commenced their search , the looming rudderlessness of their ship led them back to none other than Mr Brettell himself . |
| 22 | But even though the makers recalled them last year to be modified , more than 35,000 still have not been returned . |
| 23 | But even if the proposals prove sufficiently acceptable , important questions of principle will remain unresolved . |
| 24 | But even If the movements made by the three puppets inside their rooms might seem like dance to some — those who perform them must be actors who can dance . ’ |
| 25 | But even if the revolutionaries had been willing to settle for gradual extension of liberty the middle classes appeared powerless to extract major concessions from the Tsarist regime . |
| 26 | But even as the reformers celebrated , the result signalled further bitter division in the church . |
| 27 | But even as the words echoed in her brain , she knew she would n't voice them , would n't give him the satisfaction of knowing just how childishly he could make her behave . |
| 28 | They were shaped within a world dominated by respectable values , but even when the patterns approximated ( as they did in the eventually declining birthrate ) they did so for reasons which had a different rationale in each class . |
| 29 | Not one of the 120 is listed as a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) — but then as the Conservatives have pointed out , the published biographies contain no mention whatever of CND membership . |