Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 2 | But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions . |
| 3 | but once they get a |
| 4 | But once we have the treasure , we 'll find it soon enough . |
| 5 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 6 | You get the first week will seem a bit strange but once you get the first week over you 're alright then . |
| 7 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 8 | There is no quick and easy way to build muscles , but once you obtain the correct balance between training , rest and recovery , and diet , then your muscles certainly will grow . |
| 9 | But once you open the book and view the video you realise that for £62 you have the best buy in town . |
| 10 | The Appropriation Accounts are concerned with monies voted by Parliament ; but although they cover a vast area they do not contain all public monies . |
| 11 | It seems obvious enough that ‘ language teachers ’ — the phrase used by foreign language teachers to describe themselves — need to know about ‘ language ’ but if we rephrase the formulation what we in fact have are French teachers who speak French , German teachers who speak German and so on . |
| 12 | But if we get a bit of growth , they 'll be ready to take the risk . |
| 13 | ‘ But if we avoid a slump in the second half of the season we should do it . ’ |
| 14 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |
| 15 | But if we issue a Material Witness Warrant I believe the British would put him on the plane . ’ |
| 16 | But if we take a guess that there are thirty thousand , this means that in nineteen-ninety , three million people , or something like a tenth of the entire working population , will be engaged in writing materials for computers . |
| 17 | ‘ But if we take the Ship away , what will they have if they need it ? ’ |
| 18 | But if we exaggerate the earlier parallels to the announcement made in Tintern Abbey and The Prelude we lose sight of Wordsworth 's purpose and of his originality in terms of the philosophic situation in 1798 . |
| 19 | But if we extend the above argument , drawn from the motivation of ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Party to the wider electorate , we would have to conclude that here — probably to an even greater extent — Hitler 's image was not dominated by his obsession with the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 20 | Since they outnumber us , they will come out to challenge us , But if we choose the battle-ground , and with surprise … ’ |
| 21 | But if we alter the length of the sleeves and the shape of the neck we are getting a bit nearer to our own design . |
| 22 | But if we oppose the negative point we make possible something positive , for two minuses make a plus . |
| 23 | But if we see an office that 's being committed by y somebody breaking into an empty flat , or we actually see somebody breaking into a occupied flat , then as a as a citizen , you can enforce a citizen 's arrest . |
| 24 | But if we travel the northern route we probably wo n't see the sun for weeks , and the daylight is grey and the sea is green and grey , while at night you just see the cold white wavetops hissing out of blackness . |
| 25 | But if we create a psychology in this country where to the men and women who earn the crust upon which we depend , our business community , are switched off to the significance of Europe , there 's only one people who 'll suffer and it is us . |
| 26 | But if we accept the discoveries of the students of Recent sediments , we must accept the conclusion that Interpretation 2 in figure 6.1 is more likely than Interpretation 1 . |
| 27 | It is true that an obvious field with high benefits and low risk would quickly get overcrowded , but if we generate a new concept there is no reason why the rewards should not be great and the risks low . |
| 28 | But if we study the use of religious language in Wordsworth 's poems between 1798 and 1820 we see a gradual change from what might be meant metaphorically or ‘ poetically ’ ( Wordsworth said that he employed the pre-existence theme in the Immortality Ode ‘ as a Poet ’ ) towards language that is used literally and in an orthodox Christian sense . |
| 29 | The normally small scabious scabiosa columbaria flowers in July and August , but if we have a wet spell now after a dry summer , then it could well flower a second time . |
| 30 | But if we have a conscience about our familiar old things what can we do ? |