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Example sentences of "but [art] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But the foundations look impressive .
2	The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves .
3	You said then that I 'd never cope , but the farmers liked me enough to ask me to call again . ’
4	( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below .
5	But the Davidians stayed put .
6	It was strange having a sickle between her legs after all these months , but the reactions came back .
7	Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better .
8	But the radars used by the Iraqi missile batteries and aircraft have threatened allied patrols .
9	Something like ’ reduce greatly ’ will do — But the Europeans came up with a new wheeze to infuriate everyone .
10	But the Europeans refused to be convinced by American arguments that the credibility of the overall American guarantee to Europe would in fact be increased if sufficient forces could be deployed to make the the strategy of flexible response a reality .
11	We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss .
12	But the groups had historic scores to settle with each other , some of the nastiest no older than the second world war .
13	The evening air had its accustomed November nip , but the groups making their way from Celtic Crescent were impervious to it .
14	At the first interview there were no GHQ differences between those who subsequently found work and those who did not , but the groups diverged on leaving school .
15	But the changes produced their own set of tensions and contradictions .
16	But the changes have not all happened in the past decade .
17	In 1986 a constitutional convention comprehensively revised the territory 's constitution , but the changes have yet to be ratified by the US Congress .
18	Then I waited for the evening to come , but the hours passed very slowly .
19	One could hear every ‘ tick-tock ’ of the clock , but the hours seemed never to pass .
20	Negotiations for the sale have been in progress since Mr Hern left Random House last August , with agreement reached before Christmas , but the legalities consumed several more months .
21	A good working dog — at least one is essential for any stock farmer but the Hauxwells did n't always have much luck in finding the right one .
22	The males then returned inland , but the females had to wait in the burrows for a further two weeks while their fertilised eggs matured .
23	But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch .
24	But the tenants do n't want to leave Mrs Birt-Smith , who they say makes them feel like family .
25	Franklin always resented the Department being saddled with so much debt at a time of falling revenue , but the Coronations dominated most of his time as Manager .
26	But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people .
27	But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people .
28	But the Communists got to hear of it .
29	Common Wealth was a marginal protest movement : but the Communists seemed set to become a major force in British politics .
30	Provisions of May the fourth had been seriously overstepped but the communists did not realize this and thought that more land was available for redistribution .