Example sentences of "but [pos pn] [noun] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my life 's been empty without him , without that uncompromising presence . |
| 2 | ‘ I have given 100pc but my play has been affected because I have not been mentally happy . ’ |
| 3 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 4 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 5 | The ‘ Grand Coalition ’ had managed to outlast the student unrest and to tackle Germany 's economic problems , but its story had been a troubled one in 1967–8 and by 1969 differences between the two constituent parties were more apparent . |
| 6 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 7 | In Britain the law and order approach has been particularly associated with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher ( Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 ) , but its effects have been felt in other countries as well , notably the USA . |
| 8 | The distinction between the responsibility of the Home Office for the criminal law , and the Lord Chancellor 's Department for the civil law , has been preserved , but its significance has been lessened by the gloss that it is the latter which exercises control over all court administration for criminal as well as civil cases . |
| 9 | Finally the mouse died , but its life had been extended . |
| 10 | The USM , which opened in 1980 , was very successful in the 1980s in attracting young growth companies , but its advantages have been eroded . |
| 11 | Table 5.4 International bond issuance by nationality ( $ billion ) The currency of issuance in the international markets has traditionally been the dollar , but its dominance has been eroded recently , particularly by increases in deutschmark , sterling and yen issuance and the rise of the ECU market . |
| 12 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 13 | Clearly , this is a programme which could command considerable support , but its development has been impeded by several problems . |
| 14 | The code was written by the Council but its publication has been sponsored additionally by the SCU , Scottish Natural Heritage , and the Scottish Sports Council , who organised the launch at the rather odd time of 11 am on a weekday morning . |
| 15 | For its part , the Trades Union Congress has recognised the gap ; but its response has been primarily cosmetic , couched in terms of a public relations campaign which leaves power where it already is , and fails to address the crisis within the movement itself . |
| 16 | This spare copy has now been stopped following recent budgetary cuts at NACAB central and area offices , but its importance has been reaffirmed by advice workers themselves in that the vast majority of bureaux choose to buy a spare copy from NACAB using bureaux budgets . |
| 17 | The Allspeeds drives and controls subsidiary is the only remaining poor performer , but its losses have been stopped . |
| 18 | The Audit Commission originated in these concerns of the Layfield Committee , but its role has been widened to encompass general questions relating to efficiency in local government . |
| 19 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 20 | But its context has been a general quickening of interest in research on ageing not only among sociologists and historians , but also from other disciplines such as psychiatry and anthropology . |
| 21 | Toton was a pivotal Speedlink yard in 1980 but its status had been reduced to that of staging and storage sidings , plus a small amount of household coal shunting , by the end of the decade . |
| 22 | The television centre was occupied by the opposition on Sept. 21 , but their attempts to broadcast were prevented by the government 's cutting electricity supplies to the building , while Gamsakhurdia continued to broadcast from the Supreme Soviet building . |
| 23 | Economic changes have been generally recognized as being very important , but their influence has been conceived in diverse ways . |
| 24 | That the congregation progressed favourably during the time they had ministers and probationers to preach there , but their progress has been suddenly arrested by having no minister to officiate among them . |
| 25 | But their findings have been widely disseminated by Kelly in an interview on the BBC World Service programme Science in Action , where he stressed the significance of the new insight that a large-scale disruption of hemisphere-wide circulation mechanisms could be produced by events in the tropics . |
| 26 | But their case has been the catalyst for a bitter political row , raising fundamental questions about society 's ability to deal adequately with racial violence . |
| 27 | Their names were unfortunately not recorded , but their assistance has been greatly appreciated . |
| 28 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 29 | People may still have their memories but their certainties have been undermined . |
| 30 | Queens and kings may not always be objects of moral rectitude , but their right to rule is sacramental before it is practical . |