Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment business — grasping the nettle Investment business holds pitfalls for the unwary but it also offers a significant business opportunity |
| 2 | There was much more of the same but it was not long before she found what she was looking for . |
| 3 | At this stage it operates largely in the unconscious but it is soon partly modified by exposure to reality , that part becoming the ego . |
| 4 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 5 | ‘ The basic idea originated in Siberia in the 1950s but it is only since the Cold War ended that people in the West have realised the potential of ideas such as this . ’ |
| 6 | The remedial action that had to be taken was painful in the extreme but it saved ICI Fibres and put it in a position of strength for the future . |
| 7 | Magdalene Rutherford , 66 , first suffered bouts of breathlessness in the mid-Seventies but it was only four years ago that she was told her condition had been caused by exposure to asbestos at the dockyard , a judge heard . |
| 8 | The earlier charters after 1135 gave rights to the latter but it was not until the 1220s that the authority of the episcopal servants was finally replaced by elected bailiffs , soon to become the mayors . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether this will be acceptable to Policy and Resources Committee or the Council at the end of the day , but essentially what is showing there is something that , taken over the three years meets er , a figure equivalent to the annual but it does n't do it uniformly over the three years . |
| 10 | I think ideally what we 're saying er Mrs is that it 's er , it 's an interesting plant and being a native plant of course there 'll be wild life that feeds on it which is to the good but it 's probably a plant for a , a larger wilder garden really . |
| 11 | On the outside but it does n't stop the light |
| 12 | No it , I think it actually runs on the sixteenth but it only looks at premiums up to the fifteenth , think that 's built into the , the , the parameters on it . |
| 13 | I tried to do research on the 1950s but it was quite hard to find general information about the day-to-day lives of 1950s teenagers . |