Example sentences of "of the [noun] but they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were curious villagers waiting for the wedding to begin in the back seats of the church but they did not look to left or right . |
| 2 | Because of the scarcity of ministers , young conforming curates were appointed to many of the kirks but they were disliked , ignored and often abused by the congregations . |
| 3 | Well they 're taking all the power lines down in the village , or down through that part of the village which , fair enough , gets rid of the eyesore but they 're gon na put now a bloody big transformer , abou thing about seven , eight foot bloody tall in , in the field right on the Copper Dollar |
| 4 | They pointed out that adders might be endangered in some parts of the country but they are thriving north of the border . |
| 5 | A quiet that was close to let-down replaced the wild bustle of the preparation but they were enjoying each other 's company , the animal comfort of other presences , banishment of loneliness . |
| 6 | Certainly Americans and Australians could play sport for more of the year but they did so in a more positive , meritocratic context where success was admired and recognized for its own sake . |
| 7 | Gray added : ‘ Huddersfield have won only one game since the turn of the year but they are in a good position for a play-off place . |
| 8 | The man has only been able to provide police with sketchy details of the youths but they spoke with Liverpool accents . |
| 9 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 10 | The selectors did know the gender of the artists but they stressed their aim to choose a show that would appeal to a cross section of visitors . |
| 11 | More papers lay scattered thickly over the ground between the churchyard wall and the rubble of the Cutcherry but they could not be collected because musket fire once more swept the open spaces . |
| 12 | The present proceedings are not precisely covered by any of the statutory relaxations of the privilege but they are similar to and analogous to situations in which Parliament has intervened . |
| 13 | Antecedents need not be causes of the behaviour but they help to maintain its regularity . |
| 14 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |
| 15 | In other words you 've got the trading account which is how 's trading , the committee account , the petty cash and the wages box are part and parcel of the trading but they 're kept as separate entities within the organization . |
| 16 | Unless they are hunters , like cats , their eyesight is often the least developed of the senses but they still quickly detect movement . |
| 17 | A few chroniclers report the events of the war but they do not say what caused it . |
| 18 | Donna glanced round at the other occupants of the room but they were all hunched over their chosen books , seated at the wooden desks . |
| 19 | Yet our soaps are top of the ratings but they could increase their viewers even more if they eased-up a little and balanced things out . |
| 20 | One had tried to involve some of the staff but they apparently refused to get involved ; another head wanted more involvement and had a plan of action that would lead to this : another was sure that all staff were involved and departments were compelled to discuss finance at least once a month . |
| 21 | Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past . |
| 22 | It may have been different if Arsenal were top of the table but they 're not . |
| 23 | A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another . |
| 24 | I try to look in the windows of the house but they 're either covered with those plastic roll-down external shutters you usually see in France or closed off inside by Venetian blinds . |
| 25 | I do not think that many hon. Members would criticise the length of the speech but they and members of the museum and arts worlds outside would criticise the Bill 's contents . |
| 26 | parties that take about three , four percent of the vote but they have got far more sway over the government than their vote really . |
| 27 | Women are crawling out of the woodwork but they are duplicitous and wizened , swamp people and ratbags , and they can blacken and turn leathery before I will condescend to them . |
| 28 | There were the initials GWE/BW typed at the top of the letter but they had n't helped . |
| 29 | I could see them clearly in the light of the foyer but they could n't see me cloaked in the anonymity of Armstrong — and what more anonymous than a black London cab ? |