Example sentences of "but [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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31 | Of course , more progress needs to be made , but that statistic is some indication of the progress that we are making and have made . |
32 | But that loyalty was mediated by a common critique of their own , shared in kitchens and over doorsteps , of the authoritarianism endured by the women . |
33 | ‘ But that year was useful because David 's role was very much in financial management . |
34 | But that basket were only half full and it cost me a quid for what were in the basket . |
35 | But that smile was so tremendous , and so feminine , that I confess I felt an attraction for that thing , that woman-thing . |
36 | Lewis is in training at Hilton Head Island , South Carolina , for his May WBC heavyweight title defence against Tony Tucker but that fight is already being overshadowed by talk of a clash with Bruno . |
37 | But that opportunity is circumscribed , nonetheless , and in a country where Rupert Murdoch , Robert Maxwell and Lord Rothermere , with their powerful and partisan views , control 80 per cent of national newspapers , there is an understandable reluctance to give their newspapers a blank cheque to attack political enemies . |
38 | Look oh well , yeah but that stuff 's horrible though . |
39 | She was shocked herself , but that shock was muted by the greater shock of realising that even now she was not certain that she would keep the appointment she had made for the morning . |
40 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
41 | If someone had the right thought , that the play did begin there at eight , then their thought did have a content that was true , but that content was not identical with the actual state of affairs . |
42 | This view of existence assumes that neither pleasure nor pain naturally predominates , but that life is a permanent encounter with both positive and negative elements . |
43 | But that life was over now and a new one lay ahead . |
44 | Freud also considered the view of communists , that it is the institution of private property which has corrupted man 's nature , but that man is basically co-operative and good : people could be naturally well-disposed towards their neighbours if only private property was abolished . |
45 | Some of the ideas which I discuss are currently rated ‘ improbable ’ , but should not be dismissed for that reason alone : their supporters may be in a minority , but that minority is often a very distinguished one . |
46 | But that shirt 's okay cos it , I mean he can wear that to school ca n't he ? |
47 | But that judgement is not well considered . |
48 | Anthony Gilberthorpe originally won his case against two tabloid newspapers , but that judgement was overturned . |
49 | But that rise is significant . |
50 | Though consent is undeniably a defence to an action for conversion , there are difficulties in reconciling this result , sensible as it may seem , with general principles of agency , for since Y's act was unauthorised it could only be effective if done within an ostensible authority — but that doctrine is inapplicable to undisclosed agency . |
51 | Close up he could see how she could n't possibly be a rival , whatever they did with wigs and make-up , but that voice was alarming ; or was it ? |
52 | But that winter was a dismal season on the North Shore . |
53 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
54 | But that burglary was the clincher . |
55 | But that plan is no good now . ’ |
56 | But that window 's completely cleared out now and it has n't been open at all this week . |
57 | In October 1537 , a son was born but Jane died in the confinement Henry remained without a wife until January 1540 , when he married Anne of Cleves , a German princess , but that marriage was dissolved without being consummated , so on 28th . |
58 | The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them . |
59 | But that thought is not to be tolerated . |
60 | The feeling persists that sport is still of peripheral concern when the parties make their manifesto pledges ; that in the struggle with the arts for the hearts , minds ( and pockets ) of politicians , it comes a poor second , but that government is more than happy to accept the millions of pounds in various forms of tax generated by this ‘ art of the masses ’ . |