Example sentences of "but [noun] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various explanations have been offered as to how they function but attachment probably depends on the fact that the structures concerned are covered with tubular tenent hairs , the apices of which are moistened by a glandular secretion ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 2 | Dub says : ‘ On the field they worked out a series of calls and signals for the defenders , but Jan still struggles to make conversation . |
| 3 | The corollary is that British influence in Tonga is still immense ; but Germany still has relict links from before 1899 , and this dampish little Dusseldorfer was a case in point . |
| 4 | But Hayek also roots his theory in social evolutionary ideas . |
| 5 | But Davidson actually makes the claim that you to assign no more structure than what 's required by a truth theory just to get the coming out right . |
| 6 | No , but Donna , Donna , it looks alright on Donna , but Kelly just looks Been going Georgie 's lately getting all posters off of him . |
| 7 | I know but Corrinne never cleans it ! |
| 8 | So , Coward is elevated to join the likes of Greed ( 1923 ) and Paisa ( 1946 ) and Le jour se lève ( 1939 ) , but Manvell cautiously refuses to bestow individual plaudits , preferring to see the film as ‘ one of those rare films for which one can never be sure to whom the real credit is due … an example of the unity achieved by the cooperation of many creative minds ’ . |
| 9 | But Frances never neglects Joanne , the only child still living at home . |
| 10 | But mum still knows the best way to a man 's heart , according to a new survey . |
| 11 | Politicians come and go , but Whitehall still retains its hold on power . |
| 12 | But Prince only gets £5 million per album if he sells 5 million copies — or a new fee is agreed . |
| 13 | There was competition from Zenith Productions , the makers of Inspector Morse , but Warner now plans a four-part mini-series aimed for transmission in autumn 1994 . |
| 14 | But Trogus soon falls back into imaginary history when he tells the episode of the chieftain Catumarandus , who had been persuaded in a dream by a goddess to make peace with Massalia . |
| 15 | Ceausescu 's aim in issuing such a threat was probably to frighten Hungary , but Romania already has the delivery system in the form of Soviet built Scud missiles and is believed to be developing its own missile with the help of Egypt and Iraq . |
| 16 | IT 'S HARD TO believe but tetanus still kills people in this country . |
| 17 | Ratings dropped during the first week of the revamped programme , but ITN now claims this trend has been reversed . |
| 18 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
| 19 | They are likely to want a sum of £250 for the use of the song , but permission also needs to be sought from A&M Licensing if you intend to use Sting 's recording of the song ( they may want a fee too ! ) ( 21/6 ) . |
| 20 | But apathy often works for the status quo . |
| 21 | at , some things to work out , erm , you better write them out and then you can read your own writing then , so if I say , er , you can only in , you can just make your own notes on what you need to do the question , but computers normally costs six hundred pounds , but erm , Rumbelows are doing a fifteen per cent discount , how much do you pay for it ? |
| 22 | But poststructuralism precisely does not try to comprehend disintegration , for grasping heterogeneity together is exactly what all totalizing theories have unsuccessfully attempted to do . |
| 23 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 24 | The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List allocates him a reign of three years , with one variant reading of two , but Bede also says that Caedwalla reigned for two years before his abdication in 688 ( HE IV , 12 : V , 7 ) ( see also above , p. 51 ) . |
| 25 | Actions under the Act differ from those at common law in that the consumer does not have to prove fault , but causation still needs to be established and the burden of proof is on the consumer . |
| 26 | She remained the faithful wife but Richard certainly appears to have had the licence to rove . |
| 27 | But Richard still finds time for his girlfriend Sarah . |
| 28 | Mrs talked about four , we 've actually agreed that there should be more homes on the list than four er for prospective refurbishment and Mr has stood up and protested that he did not produce the figures , but Professor still says you will produce figures for this and you will produce figures for that , none of us do that we all get our figures from the same place but we all get inconsistent figures . |
| 29 | But Proust also regards the world of people as being just as fluid and difficult to grasp , indeed more so , than the world of objects . |
| 30 | But Assynt also holds ferox of great size in its dark depths . |