Example sentences of "but [adv] [verb] [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People sometimes look but rarely listen except when " Coronation Street " is on . |
| 2 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 3 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 4 | Example 2:6 Right of way : unlimited times and vehicles The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass ( but not to park or except in emergency to stop ) with or without vehicles at all times and for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan Example 2:7 Right of way : limited times and vehicles ; right to load , etc The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right to pass and repass on foot and with vehicles not exceeding … feet in length or … tonnes ( unladen weight ) at any time between 6 am on Monday and 8 pm on Friday in each week ( except public holidays ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property ( but not otherwise ) over the road coloured on the attached plan and to park any such vehicle for such period as may be reasonable for the purpose only of loading or unloading it Example 2:8 Right of way : right to load etc in loading bay The right at all times with or without vehicles to pass and repass over the road leading from to the demised property ( but not to halt or park any vehicle thereon except in case of emergency ) for all purposes connected with the use of the demised property and the right for the same purposes to use the loading bay coloured on the attached plan for loading and unloading any such vehicle ( b ) Stairs and passages In a lease of property on an upper floor of a building there will be implied an easement of necessity to use a staircase that is its sole means of access ( Altmann v Boatman ( 1963 ) 186 EG 109 ) . |
| 5 | The garter carriage can be used to knit a ribbed welt , but always remember that if you set the garter carriage to knit a 24 row welt and then leave it , that is all it will achieve . |
| 6 | He was not clever or epigrammatic in the Union manner and only occasionally witty , but always spoke as though he had something to contribute to the debate . |
| 7 | A shedding of the tiniest particles of ourselves — skin and hair , threads from our clothing — but nonetheless proof that whilst the pain of loss persists , growth is equally cyclical and persistent . |
| 8 | It is less ambiguous than the previous version but still suggests that if your car will run on standard unleaded petrol , it will run even better on Super Plus unleaded . |
| 9 | The British Government recognises the democratic right to aspire towards Irish unity but also accepts that until a majority here wishes otherwise , Northern Ireland 's status will be unchanged . |
| 10 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 11 | This means that it is not necessary to require that the wavefunction is unchanged by the interchange of two identical particles but simply to specify that if it does change it does so in one of these trivial , physically equivalent , ways . |
| 12 | He asked for approval for having inaugurated the competition , but then said that if time would allow it , the War Office should be incorporated into the Downing Street scheme , particularly as the Pall Mall site was too small . |
| 13 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |