Example sentences of "but [pers pn] are [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his last hours in this world , he found unspeakable comfort in thinking about some verses from Hebrews Ch.12 , ‘ But ye are come unto mount Sion , and unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to the innumerable company of angels , to the general assembly and church of the firstborn , which are written in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ’ . |
| 2 | Your payments are fixed at a specific rate , but you are charged at a variable rate . |
| 3 | But you are placed in a great difficulty . |
| 4 | But you are expected to be competent with such material even if you feel this is not what you would eventually choose to work with . |
| 5 | But we are saved by the bell . |
| 6 | But Ms Short added : ‘ Women share our values but we are seen by these women as male dominated and the most unsympathetic of all the parties . |
| 7 | But we are fascinated by ourselves — which is why Jane 's thoughts rabbited on so long about her country . |
| 8 | I hate my wife but we are bound by a bond which these two will defend . ’ |
| 9 | This is an attempt to bring a greater level of uniformity than we have achieved so far , but we are bound by agreements made at the time of amalgamation and we can not undermine or contradict those particular decisions , and that 's why in a few cases , particularly in relation to the size of conference , there is some slight imbalance . |
| 10 | Oz and Pommieland may be half a world apart in distance , but we are joined by a bond of friendship which ignores the distance between us . |
| 11 | ‘ We are a credible youth development charity , but we are saddled with an outdated , confused image . |
| 12 | But we are faced with a cultural problem where descriptive work goes unrewarded , and systematics and taxonomy are often treated as one . |
| 13 | In Eliot 's poem it is ‘ While the melodious fountain falls ’ that love is made , but we are forced to be conscious of an artifice ‘ ( Carved by the cunning Bolognese ) ’ which suggests that the apparently primitive fertility ritual where ‘ The Adepts twine beneath the trees/ The sacrificial exercise ’ has become a decadent pleasure , rather than a genuine ritual . |
| 14 | Whatever has gone wrong , it was all our fault , but we are trapped in helplessness , and as we contemplate the dull ruins of the fabric of our lives in the light that shines from our visions of what might have been , our ‘ real ’ life seems messier and drabber , and we weep in self-pity for the golden afternoons that never were ours . |
| 15 | Bull and bear baiting have gone , but we are left with remnants of former use in such breeds as bulldogs , whose exaggerated lower jaws were developed through selective breeding , to hang onto the muzzles of bulls . |
| 16 | The room we share is not large , but we are divided from one another by a plastic curtain . |
| 17 | Our truancy is defined by one fixed star , and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it : we may seize the moment , toss it around while the moments pass , a short dash here , an exploration there , but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact — that we , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , bearing a letter from one king to another , are taking Hamlet to England . |
| 18 | This does not stop us using the olfactory or tactile channels but we are restricted by social norms in how we use them . |
| 19 | In other parts of the world , the same needs arise but they are met by different structures . |
| 20 | They are still at large and Scotland Yard has not ruled out their possible involvement in the latest attacks , but they are believed to be firearms specialists rather than bomb makers . |
| 21 | Both firms and households would prefer to be at point Z but they are prevented from realizing their optimal mode of behaviour by a general lack of demand in the economy . |
| 22 | The Viet Cong temporarily overrun the camp , but they are annihilated by fire from ‘ Puff the Magic Dragon ’ , an AC-47 gunship . |
| 23 | Braque had first introduced letters into a still life , probably of early 1910 ( Le Pyrogène et ‘ Le Quotidien ’ ) , but they are blended into the composition and have no function other than that of identifying as a newspaper the object over which they are painted . |
| 24 | The views expressed may or may not be shared by their readerships , but they are invested with a special status by virtue of numbers . |
| 25 | Associations with bells or illuminated disks are rather artificial , but they are intended to be experimental versions of things that would be important in nature . |
| 26 | The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle , only accessible by a network of sandy tracks . |
| 27 | The stereotypes may be false , formal , relics of a bygone society , but they are ingrained in our social structure and will be slow to change . |
| 28 | If they originate from some person of eminence they have , of course , additional prestige ; but they are prized in their own right because many are beautiful in themselves and are representative of their time and place . |
| 29 | Groups like that have tremendous power in the United States but they are marginalized on the culture of America , having formidable influence but not respected or trusted . |
| 30 | Several other metastrongyloid genera occur in the domestic carnivores , but they are limited in distribution . |