Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The word spiritual is over used , but for Beth it 's the right adjective . |
| 62 | Lydia had never been particularly fond of Betty , but during dinner she had begun to hate her . |
| 63 | Baku 's military commanders had closed the city to all non-residents from Sept. 26 to Oct. 2 , but during polling they had kept troops out of sight . |
| 64 | Benny took this as good advice not only about Eve , but about Patsy herself . |
| 65 | With inadequacy or a wrong fit we have no doubts , but about excess we are ambivalent . |
| 66 | The concern here is not about inequalities which are natural but about inequalities which are socially determined . |
| 67 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 68 | To a certain extent , this mechanism allows users to shift responsibility for SPRs onto other users , but as users who receive SPRs are informed of the sender , it is easy to identify those who do so . |
| 69 | Whether the objects are books , furniture , or cars , individuals are seen by Simmel as increasingly coming into relationship with them , not as producers who fail to recognize their products , but as consumers who have to determine their own development in this world of goods . |
| 70 | It will bear the history of that oppression , not necessarily as that which disables desire ( though it may ) , but as desire itself . |
| 71 | Reform tends now to be seen not as treatment which is imagined to work independently of the will of the offender , but as measures which enable or assist rather than force offenders to improve their behaviour — or , in Norval Morris ' terms , ‘ facilitated change ’ rather than ‘ coerced cure ’ ( Morris , 1974 : 13–20 ) . |
| 72 | Birkbeck 's study of garbage pickers in Cali , Colombia , suggests that they should not be viewed as vagrants left behind by economic development but as workers who are part of the industrial system ( Birkbeck 1979 ) . |
| 73 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction represents perhaps what Christine Brooke-Rose was aiming at , not in philosophical or even aesthetic terms , but as narratives which combine readability and lively story-telling with intellectual themes . |
| 74 | But between runs he made a brave gamble . |
| 75 | In between shots , you want to sit and relax and not get hassled , but between shots he would sit down and there would be a ring of photographers round him going click ! click ! click ! |
| 76 | We spend a great deal of time arguing and going against these very simple instructions , but through practice we will find how much care and love is behind these messages . |
| 77 | It was too far away to make photography worthwhile , but through binoculars we could see that it was trying to cover the remains of its meal by pawing snow over it , and that a group of glaucous and ivory gulls were standing around , no doubt waiting in the hope of leftovers . |
| 78 | ‘ Be not cast down : if ye saw Him , who is standing on the shore holding out His arms to welcome you to land , you would not only wade through a sea of wrongs , but through hell itself , to be at Him . ’ |
| 79 | But after October they rapidly became disillusioned with their erstwhile allies . |
| 80 | In the morning Ballesteros and Olazabal could have been cast as villains but after lunch they were to produce some irrepressible form . |
| 81 | Dr Neil also had his evening off from his practice on Wednesday , but after lunch he had vanished into the surgery , on the pretext that he had work to do there , but in reality to escape McAllister 's siren call , which had unconsciously grown stronger over the previous week . |
| 82 | But after marriage it was so different . |
| 83 | I was very talkative before marriage but after marriage I do n't know what happened to me . |
| 84 | The site had been in the ownership of the local authority since 1901 , but after clearance it was largely empty . |
| 85 | And I want to see more of France — I had a ball there — but after Paris I went to Spain and got really ill . |
| 86 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 87 | ‘ But after Liverpool I 'd love to step on stage in London 's West End yeah , now that WILL be the day for me . ’ |
| 88 | I enjoyed reading your material , but after consideration I 'm afraid to say that I can not make use of short stories . |
| 89 | But after Easter you just wan na hand it in and just sod it . |
| 90 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |