Example sentences of "but later " in BNC.
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| 1 | But later still he admitted he 'd had his doubts . |
| 2 | Certain parts of the play , frequently the Parabasis , would contain material relating to contemporary events , originally theological , but later political . |
| 3 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
| 4 | The spindle , projecting upwards from the centre of the bed stone , was at first fixed to carry the runner stone a little above the bed stone , but later the elevation of the spindle could be altered to allow regulation of the gap between the stones and so control the fineness of the meal . |
| 5 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 6 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 7 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |
| 8 | Hints have been dropped that the two smaller islands , Shikotan and the Habomai rocks , might be returned — in line with the pledge that the Soviet Union made in 1956 but later withdrew . |
| 9 | But later , when details come to be worked out , it appears as a part of the ‘ limited ’ investigation into the causes of particular effects . |
| 10 | But later , as we picked our way along the narrow mountain spine down towards Aberfan , I found the Discovery more reassuring again — its flexibility , its smoothness , its stability , all signs of its good breeding . |
| 11 | But later I returned to the subject . |
| 12 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 13 | But later there was one part of the visit that she was always to remember . |
| 14 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 15 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 16 | Berry 's conviction was quashed on a legal technicality by the Court of Appeal in early 1984 , but later that year the House of Lords restored the conviction in allowing an appeal by the Crown . |
| 17 | Berry 's conviction was quashed on a legal technicality by the Court of Appeal in early 1984 , but later that year the House of Lords restored the conviction in allowing an appeal by the Crown . |
| 18 | A Barclays spokesman scoffs at the idea but later admits : ‘ It seems the heating in some branches is controlled remotely . |
| 19 | Dr Thomas DiGiovanni , 35 , put his ex-girlfriend 's name on a sample of blood from an Aids victim , but later admitted what he had done , and resigned from the Baltimore hospital . |
| 20 | But later in the afternoon he finished well down the fleet , as he did on Monday , so his chances now are extremely slim . |
| 21 | The shares jumped 40 points on the news , but later settled at £11.60 , up 28 . |
| 22 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 23 | In June 1959 , however , the last performance occurred at the Chiswick Empire which was then pulled down and the site redeveloped as a tower office block , originally named ‘ Empire House ’ , but later that name did not prove acceptable to some local government officials , who considered that the name smacked of imperialism , so the block now has only numbers in Chiswick High Road . |
| 24 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |
| 25 | Plants — at first single-celled , but later multi-cellular — inherited this ability from photosynthesizing bacteria . |
| 26 | The cup went absent without leave in 1971 but later re-appeared . |
| 27 | Initially all Gehlen 's funding came from the CIA but later , in 1954 when the German Federal Republic was established as a sovereign state , Gehlen took over the running of the Federal German Intelligence Service . |
| 28 | Hahnemann , early in his career , used low potencies , but later was aware of and used centesimal high potencies . |
| 29 | The outside of the building is decorated in fine style , but the eye is drawn to the centre of the facade , to the ancient tower of the city commune , built in 1272 but later remodelled in Baroque style . |
| 30 | Hellens did not like the portrait painted of him but later came to recognize its prophetic qualities . |