Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun] are [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords may be an irritant , but its powers are restricted by the Parliament Acts . |
| 2 | But its members are thought to be waiting to see what its British equivalent comes up with . |
| 3 | But its limits are exposed by asking a simple question : why , then , should Mr Lawson not be quite happy to see the deficit get even larger ? |
| 4 | VAUDEMANGES : The village itself and most of the commune is on Micraster but its vines are shared with Billy-le-Grand on Belemnite . |
| 5 | The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held . |
| 6 | The spring , he says , is a particularly perilous time in adder-land : as they emerge from hibernation , adders are too groggy to slip away from potential threats but their fangs are filled with several months ' worth of venom . |
| 7 | It tries to point out that it is a common , though devastating , experience ; that most people do survive it , but their lives are changed by it . |
| 8 | Often , the aphids feed on one kind of plant in spring and summer , but their eggs are laid on a different kind of plant . |
| 9 | These suggest unsteadiness and imbalance ; brittle textures and hard yellow-greens evoke the dazzling clear-cut light of reason , but their surfaces are marred by thin wounds and blemishes which , camouflage by the paint 's substance , present an insidious challenge to the perfect symmetry of composition . |
| 10 | No doubt there are a few places where Stornoway citizens get drunk at Sunday lunchtime , indeed , there are quite a few of them , but their doors are shut to the public ; sin goes private on the Sabbath for it is public morality which counts in Sabbath observance . |
| 11 | Alien conspiracies and kidnaps , and why some people believe that not only have UFOs landed , but their passengers are living under the Nevada desert |
| 12 | If she was not my mother she would be ideal but her views are coloured by the fact that she would watch anything with my name at the end of it . |
| 13 | I might be ‘ little ’ , ’ she parodied , ‘ but we English are noted for our belief in fighting to the last blood-filled ditch . ’ |
| 14 | He wants to , but his attempts are thwarted by an old enemy who could harm his wife 's business . |
| 15 | But his remarks are couched in a tentative and hypothetical form . |
| 16 | But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment . |
| 17 | But his parents are faced with a desperate race against time to raise the money necessary for his treatment . |
| 18 | But whatever circumlocutions are conferred upon him , Simon would appear to be rather more obtrusive than some translators might wish . |
| 19 | But what conditions are required for a given investment project to offer such profitability ? |
| 20 | we beg to state that we have been guided not by mere aesthetic reasons only , but our opinions are based upon the observance by the competitors of the instructions furnished for their guidance , together with the general disposition and arrangement of the plans , the practicability of the designs in a structural point of view , and their capability of convenient application to the public service . |
| 21 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're grateful to Guisborough for allowing us to share their ground , but our fixtures are coinciding with theirs and we have to rearrange some of them . ’ |
| 23 | Of course we all like to get on with people at work , but our relationships are based on our skills , our expertise or our functional roles , not on friendship . |
| 24 | ‘ But your feet are cut to ribbons — and look at your leg ! ’ |