Example sentences of "but [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Not only that , but each cuckoo pigments her eggs so that they roughly match those of her host .
2 But that admin charge it would ge get charged from Intercity East Coast .
3 It is clear that the warp and woof of everyday life in stepfamilies differs from that of unbroken families not merely because of external constraints which frustrate the efforts of those who may seek , as some do , to recast their family lives in the mould of the nuclear family , but that family norms themselves may also be markedly altered , tempered to fit the limits of the new situation and fabricated anew from the post-marital residue of family beliefs and sentiments .
4 But that stew meat I got that
5 My father loved my mother but this girl Katya he loved foolishly ; as she indeed loved him .
6 But this answer James himself rejects .
7 methane , is like its predecessor coal gas , toxic , but unlike coal gas which was contaminated with sulphur compounds , non-odorous .
8 But these quarry owners they 're not worried about them .
9 Serious errors , such as the two examples given , are usually corrected very quickly , but many newspaper readers who have personal knowledge of a news item find inaccuracies in reporting which are of less importance and which do not get corrected .
10 A good example is provided by the relationship between Marks and Spencers and its suppliers , which is relevant to the clothing industry on Northern Tyneside , but many engineering plants which operate as subcontractors are in the same position .
11 You can also buy really tough but heavy steel pegs which you can hammer into very hard ground with a rock .
12 But the real disadvantage to this approach is in terms of the control of maintenance because as we 've already said you 'll have done analysis and design on these elementary but fundamental business functions which reside inside the application .
13 He is a man who has deliberately avoided certain responsibilities in his life , and certain involvements , but those business obligations which do unavoidably devolve upon him he has always observed punctiliously .
14 But mutual aid organisations which have proliferated over recent decades are based on an assumption that practical and highly specific emotional support after the event , and from new social relationships , is helpful .
15 Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself .
16 For the traditional élites , it was not charisma but pragmatic power considerations which aligned them with Hitler .
17 But any car number you can get if they 're acting suspiciously please tell them .
18 Yes , never had a motor car then , nobody had a motor car then only the Harbourmaster and he had a little old Austin Ruby , the Harbourmaster did , but other duty Harbourmaster he had a motorbike and sidecar .
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