Example sentences of "but [conj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where privacy in the little closets of the eighteenth-century house is the individual 's privilege , for the Victorians the emphasis falls much more upon exclusion . |
| 2 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 3 | But if access to the ordinary commercial activity of a shopping precinct were to be blocked for a considerable period at a particularly busy time of day , so that people were prevented from conducting their ordinary business and social affairs , there is a disruption of sufficient significance to warrant the imposition of conditions . |
| 4 | But while dilution of a national curriculum to the lowest common denominator of the poor , isolated rural school is clearly ludicrous , the reality must be faced that poor rural schools exist in large numbers and that a curriculum policy needs to be framed with them in mind — which it very rarely is . |
| 5 | But when delivery of the required ‘ four-ribbon light valve ’ was delayed , he turned to disc recording so he could have permanent records of his experiments . |
| 6 | Finniston also believes that choosing a good successor is an important duty of a chairman , but as chairman of a nationalised industry he was in no position to do so . |
| 7 | But as work on the first phase was completed , Britain was heading into a recession . |
| 8 | But as member of the national assembly , do you think those Palestinians are those people who fled to India and the Philippines etc. will be allowed back . |
| 9 | Victorian studio portraits , of course , rarely show us smiling or happy subjects ; but as master of the local school , church organist , registrar of births and deaths , secretary to the Women 's Friendly Society , stalwart of the Langport branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters and the local cricket club , Benjamin James must have felt the burden of responsibility resting heavily on his shoulders — and it shows in his face . |
| 10 | The overwhelming case for his inclusion was neither as Archbishop nor as martyr but as author of the magnificent liturgy which held the Church together during the tribulations of the next century , and above all for his Collects , which Anglicans through four centuries would learn by heart as children and recite when they came to die . |
| 11 | Marina is the original and ultimate traitor to her people , but as mother of the first mestizo she is also the mother of modern Mexico . |