Example sentences of "but [pos pn] [noun pl] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my ambitions are for local government only . ’ |
| 2 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 3 | Culturally I must acknowledge my Spanish blood , but my sympathies are for the Quechua experience . |
| 4 | I concentrate on paddling in time with everyone else but my efforts are to no avail . |
| 5 | But my words were to no avail . |
| 6 | The Anglo-French-German study was not principally about new technology , but its findings are of great relevance to the subsequent Anglo-German study specifically concerned with work organisation and CNC technology in manufacturing industry . |
| 7 | But their faces are by no means the same as Matteo 's : features and expressions , though consonant with the half-tender , half-dreamy look of Matteo 's Madonnas , are not based on any particular model . |
| 8 | He could no longer remember who they were , but their faces were with him still , and that look : those two pairs of eyes , from which shone a brilliant collusive intensity — an intensity that excluded the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Bakers are numerous , but their ovens are unlike our own and very defective . |
| 10 | These Eastern types — you know , Czechs , Ruskies , that lot — do tend to be a bit morose but their hearts are in the right place . ’ |
| 11 | They are the first tribe in human history of wilful solitaries since the dissolution of the monasteries , but their motives are in no way God-directed . |
| 12 | Ours were , in general , rather less well qualified than students in the established departments , but their attainments were in every way comparable . |
| 13 | My priorities in life is smaller , more compact , but their priorities is for about ten , fifteen years from now . |
| 14 | In East Anglia , for example , farmers are among the most prosperous in the country , but their workers are among the most poorly paid . |
| 15 | Their emoluments were increased in accordance with their rank and dignity , but their offices were of course sinecures : the execution of Crown policy had long passed into the hands of the Surveyors-General of Woods and Forests . |
| 16 | But their losses are in total less than those suffered by the major insurance companies in recent years . |
| 17 | Most of these customers represent traditional nuclear business but their requirements are in decline , so AEA is actively developing new business such as technical services for the oil industry , safety consultancy for the transport industry , environmental research for the water industry and process engineering for the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 18 | ( ‘ But their backs are to us ! ’ ) |
| 19 | She hoped that he would refuse the commission , but her feelings were beside the point . |
| 20 | But her fears were to be reawakened during the summer of 1990 . |
| 21 | Her eyes were dark and carefully made darker but her lips were without lipstick and her face had only the merest dusting of powder . |
| 22 | But her scenarios are without irony , studies of skin as flesh rather than repositories of myth and moral fable . |
| 23 | Rose took the hand she held out , but her eyes were on Theda 's copper crown . |
| 24 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 25 | Above everything , he wanted to get into dry clothes and sleep , but his clothes were in the living-room — as were Mariana and her grandfather . |
| 26 | A group broke cover in front of him , but his headlights were on full beam and blinded them , protected him as he drove past . |
| 27 | She tried to rip herself away from him then , but his arms were like bands of iron around her . |
| 28 | But his lips were at her mouth , murmuring tenderness . |
| 29 | Owen tried to rise , but his legs were like lead and kept getting entangled in his long coat . |
| 30 | He was determined to regain what his father had lost , and raise the French monarchy from its abasement after Poitiers ; but his methods were to be diplomacy , subversion , and limited campaigns rather than a great battle in which , as he appreciated , the French were liable to be defeated yet again . |