Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] but [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general there is evidence of positive net benefits for employers but that a large proportion of further employment which might be attributed to the scheme restricts employment of other potential employees . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't say they are there for months but when they ca n't find a friend or relative to put them up they have to resort to anywhere to keep out of the wind and rain . |
| 3 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 4 | a different set of policies but but as of forty seven the strategy is we need to mobilize the masses quickly behind us now , there must be enough land to give the er peasants enough . |
| 5 | Is n't there something suspicious about making the performance of intentional actions the acid test of objective knowledge when it is quite possible that young babies have a very rich knowledge about the unseen existence of objects but that they lack the capacity to co-ordinate this knowledge with their motor skills at object removal ? |
| 6 | Oh there were there were a lot of houses but ere we did n't have any . |
| 7 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 8 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 9 | This situation is , of course , only one of an infinite number of models but while it is clearly impossible to generalize about the impact of party politics , any attempt to understand local public administration without reference to the party-political dimension is doomed to failure . |
| 10 | An example of such a system would be the Tuareg of North Africa where a ruling class controls large numbers of slaves but where no centralized authority existed traditionally . |
| 11 | Auriculas are the most desirable of flowers but if you are n't green-fingered , or would like to have them all year round , Carless & Gray sells diy fake-auricula kits which you assemble and paint yourself . |
| 12 | The Elton enquiry research showed that the majority of teachers in secondary schools had used detention of individual pupils or groups of pupils but that teachers were divided as to the effectiveness of detention as a sanction . |
| 13 | Five 's the total number of boxes but that the top one 's the total cost is n't it ? |
| 14 | Buying a second-hand board is rather like the second-hand car or computer market in that there are plenty of bargains but unless you are careful you can be ripped off . |
| 15 | Most reports fail not through lack of facts but because they contain too many . |
| 16 | Getting him to hospital is something I dread you would n't believe the struggle to get people to understand how bad it is — it 's usually building up for weeks but until he 's practically killed himself or someone else , no one wants to know . |
| 17 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 18 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 19 | he said , I find mine just the same , I 've dealt with them for years but as soon you want anything although , I must say , with the break in we 've got on alright did n't we ? |
| 20 | The possibilities in using this technology are growing rapidly , not only in terms of face-to-face contact between managers but as pointed out , in academic and training uses with the incorporation of voice and white board electronic screens for demonstration purposes . |
| 21 | The strange one was booked to fly to Johannesburg for concerts but when the whole country , practically , took to the streets , he changed his mind . |
| 22 | He argues that standards may be rendered more precise by ‘ criteria ’ , facts that are to be taken into accounts but that ‘ the feature of standards that distinguishes them from rules is their flexibility and susceptibility to change over time ’ . |
| 23 | I said that I would like to influence what was taught in schools but that this was always frowned upon . |
| 24 | The bodice hung in folds but when she pulled the belt good and tight it did n't look so bad . |
| 25 | It looks nothing when it is in pieces but as soon as it 's done and together , it looks nice . |
| 26 | The smoke from most cigars and pipe tobaccos has a higher tar content than that from cigarettes but because most life-long cigar and pipe smokers do not inhale , they take in less tar than an average cigarette smoker . |
| 27 | The smoke from most cigars and pipe tobaccos has a higher tar content than that from cigarettes but because most life-long cigar and pipe smokers ( ‘ primary smokers ’ ) do not inhale , they take in less tar than an average cigarette smoker . |
| 28 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 29 | I 've never been a person for holidays but when I was sixteen I left drama college , with my grant , and tried hitching to Cairo ; that 's my idea of travelling . |
| 30 | You need to re member that you can be very technical when talking to experts but that the same illuminating technicalities will bewilder an audience comprising only lay people . |