Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There will now be a recommendation to strike put before our annual conference in May but I hope that between now and then the Government sees sense . ’ |
| 2 | But I hope that by pursuing that course we can also help others set high standards — help others win the argument for paying for good journalism : for supporting good journalism ; for scheduling good journalism . |
| 3 | There is a dispute as to whether the cost of air-conditioning on that vehicle is property claimable , but I hold that in view of the plaintiff 's physical needs as to temperature , air-conditioning is reasonably necessary . |
| 4 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |
| 5 | Have a gap there but I mean whereas at the moment it 's like that , not to that . |
| 6 | have to give guarantees that the tape would not be abused , but I mean that in , in , in actuality you know , if it was you doing the training |
| 7 | I ca n't speak for Terry and Tom , but I imagine that as the night 's anger and frustration ebbed away , their determination had been blunted by the morning 's antics . |
| 8 | Michael Swinton is not , of course , one of our most distinguished painters , his style is too obvious , too photographic but I imagine that to you it seemed a wonderful distinction . ’ |
| 9 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 10 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you see , the thing is , there are very few people in our class or any group I 'm in [ O level ] that seem to go in for playing up the teachers , but I know that in some other classes there are . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman goes on about conspiracies against the working class , but I gather that in his constituency the working class conspired against him . |
| 14 | When warning the Church in Corinth to be on their guard against false preachers and false gospels he wrote ‘ But I fear lest by any means , as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility , so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ . ’ |
| 15 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 16 | As ever , the hon. Gentleman takes a great interest in hon. Members this side of the House , but I suppose that from his point of view it is a receding problem . |
| 17 | But I start that by saying there was already a considerable amount of Cabinet discussion . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I never thought I 'd get the same satisfaction from coaching as from playing , but I have because of the players and the group that has evolved and the atmosphere . |
| 19 | but I wonder if in fact this is the case . |
| 20 | But I believe that for every £100 million spent on sewers , the present real cost to this nation of tax payers would be rather less than £50 million . |
| 21 | This may be partly true but I believe that since the 1970s profound changes have taken place within the industry due to external pressures . |
| 22 | modern traffic calming measures however er I believe we have experts on the Council er in these matters but I believe that by narrowing the road and perhaps giving us pavements because one of our problems is that we have not got a continuous pavement through the village , and it is necessary to cross the road four times in some cases to walk from one end to the other . |
| 23 | The ingenuity of those who devise those schemes is such that it might be rash to say that property could never be comprised in the settlement unless it is charged with rights in favour of others , but I think that as a general rule this must now be the test . |
| 24 | So when we went to Stylus Records and Telstar you know they were more than than happy to have because they seemed but I think that at at the start had we been looking for somebody here to take us over probably it would never have happened . |
| 25 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 26 | But I think that from , er , Sir Edward 's point of view , he has done jolly well , and er , the families have already expressed their great gratitude to him . |
| 27 | Both terms may be outmoded by now , but I think that in view of what I have already said about gender confusion and gender avoidance in my own case , they may not be entirely unhelpful . |
| 28 | But I think that in this company I can dare to make a few observations without being thought altogether gaga . |
| 29 | PP : I adored the lute songs , of course , and there are two wonderful duets with Elizabeth , but I think that in many ways in the rest of the part I was wrongly cast . |
| 30 | to be honest because erm it 's and that I wo n't say that there 's a criticism of this particular project which I supported at the time but I think that in future we do need to plan our projects and and there are people in the in the town that are prepared to work , perhaps need a bit of organizing , we need to think about how that might happen , but we must n't first reaction go to professional or semiprofessional help . |