Example sentences of "but the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chimpanzees for instance have enormous canine teeth , but the males have them and not the females , so the idea here is that normally a big canine tooth , a sexually dimorphic canine tooth is probably related to inter-male conflict , rather than to killing and , and whether , how that affects your er what you say about the spacing I 'm not sure , but certainly it would be a safe erm generalization to say normally big canines are an aspect of sexual dimorphism and in mammals are very common . |
| 2 | Vinoba in his pilgrimages around India asking for land to be distributed to the poor said , ‘ I myself went one day to the temple of Deogar , but the priests beat me because I brought my brothers , the pariahs ( outcastes ) there . |
| 3 | It may strike you as rather remarkable that this is possible , but the mathematicians assure us that it can be done . |
| 4 | Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away . |
| 5 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 6 | ‘ We have never worked out what the chemistry is , but the audiences liked it and we realised ‘ Hey , we 've got something here ’ and really set to work on it . |
| 7 | ‘ I took a lot of stick from the press , ’ said the England Under-21 player , ‘ but the lads backed me and so did the manager . |