Example sentences of "but [ex0] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there remains in Karnataka a substantial rump of the old Janata Party , which gave the country its only brief and disastrous respite from Congress rule from 1977 to 1979 . |
| 2 | There he attracted his employer 's attention with a polite cough , then whispered in the latter 's ear : ‘ I 'm very sorry , sir , but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room . |
| 3 | Reports on prevalence rates in different countries vary but there appears to be a ‘ sensitive period ’ between the ages of 18 months and 4 years ( especially the third year ) for learning to stay dry at night . |
| 4 | Not only will the balance of factors vary depending on the severity and type of abuse being analysed , but there appears to be no uniformity in the associations found between sets of factors/characteristics and different types of abuse . |
| 5 | The lords had acted as a jury in state trials earlier in the century , and communal accusations outside parliament were not unknown , but there appears to be no precedent for the hearing of communal accusations in parliament before a jury of lords : this was the essential novelty in 1376 . |
| 6 | Both mines are associated with a NW-SE swarm of Tertiary dolerite dykes but there appears to be no genetic connection . |
| 7 | But there appears to be little sense of common purpose . |
| 8 | Delivery times for most items were generally satisfactory , but there appears to be a possibility that readers consulting early or rare books in the South Reading Room have to wait a considerable time for items ordered over the lunchtime period . |
| 9 | For the de Klerk government it 's a political as well as social problem and controlled black urbanisation is to the white right wing , a vivid example of the evils of political reform and will be a dominant issue in any election or referendum ; but there appears to be no alternative . |
| 10 | A team is already in the US discussing the technical problems , but there seems to be little difficulty in mating Exosat to a Delta rocket . |
| 11 | However , the languages of science and engineering have become so specialised that communication across the disciplines is difficult to achieve , but there seems to be no reason in principle why this must be so as the concepts are universal . |
| 12 | Obviously I am not saying that all policemen are racist but there seems to me to be enough evidence for a nationwide enquiry into such harassment to be held . |
| 13 | As a general rule they appeared to be slowish , considering most of them were large animals , but there seems to be a considerable variation between species of greatly differing body sizes . |
| 14 | It is the wish of the ‘ official ’ Church for us to sing joyfully at Sunday Mass , but there seems to be a lack of ‘ singing strategy ’ . |
| 15 | John Chadwick ( 1976 , p. 157 ) agrees that transactions would have been easier if prices were agreed in terms of a base-commodity — whether gold or silver or something else — but there seems to be no evidence of this in the archive tablets . |
| 16 | Such conduct would clearly be a form of ‘ delivery ’ rather than the formal service effected by the authorities of the state of destination , but there seems to be nothing in the various Hague Conventions to suggest that the postal channel was any less valid than any other permitted mode . |
| 17 | " I would ask you to come here , " she said , " but there seems to be some kind of disturbance going on , and I do n't want to add to it . " |
| 18 | For the top third of the project sample their problem may be less of a conceptual one , but there seems to be an automatic assumption that a single division on a scale represents a single unit of some kind . |
| 19 | There is no rigid rule of English law which renders a minor incapable of giving his consent to an operation but there seems to be no direct judicial authority establishing that the consent of such a person is valid . |
| 20 | Lightning , earthquakes , cloudbursts and tornadoes may be acts of God but there seems to be no English decision in which they have been involved . |
| 21 | On the basis of the Karamanid document mentioned above , one would necessarily question Husameddin 's dating of the appointment , but there seems to be no reason to doubt the consensus of the early sources on the fact of it . |
| 22 | Political power may be decentralized to some extent , made more democratic , involve the active participation of larger numbers of people , become less directly coercive , but there seems to be no ground upon which to base a theory of the total ‘ withering away ’ of the state and the whole political sphere . |
| 23 | According to the Secretary of State , companies are queuing up to move to the bay , but there seems to be no proof of that . |
| 24 | The House has two very effective European Committees , but there seems to be an astonishing dearth of Liberal Democrats prepared to sit on them , although they have the right to do so . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry to interrupt , but there seems to be some kind of disturbance going on around Police HQ . |
| 26 | But there seems to be no move to actually control or regulate the food industry . |
| 27 | ‘ Jeez , I could do with some leg-over ’ , he sighed , settling back in his seat ‘ I mean , I love my wife , but there has to be more , right ? |
| 28 | Under its Floodgates programme , USL is in fact seeding large accounts with free copies of the software but there has to be the chance of a thousand-seat contract at stake to qualify . |
| 29 | But there has to be one guarantee in because I think once we had rather good one , about six people kept , you can never tell how many come , I mean you 'd want maybe bigger , more than , more space in this room . |
| 30 | I 'm not a legal man myself , but there has to be some charge the law can bring . |