Example sentences of "but [conj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze packs therefore have a great deal to commend them but where quantities of wash water requiring dosing are high the amount of detergent thus available is too low . |
| 2 | Not only that , but where bipeds like coelurosaurs and carnosaurs increasingly had only vestigial front legs , the sauropods like Brachiosaurus ) instead began to grow their front legs longer than their hind ones . |
| 3 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 4 | But where constables under common law can be creative in their construction of nebulous charges — such as that of ‘ obstruction ’ , there can be no end to the opportunities for street summonses and arrests . |
| 5 | But where privacy in the little closets of the eighteenth-century house is the individual 's privilege , for the Victorians the emphasis falls much more upon exclusion . |
| 6 | I 'm not usually , but seeing people like that Gary and Margot just fucking kill me ! |
| 7 | But although codes of more or less articulated principles are a practical necessity for everybody , they seem to hang in a void without anything to support them . |
| 8 | But although Tit for Tat is strictly speaking not a true ESS , it is probably fair to treat some sort of mixture of basically nice but retaliatory ‘ Tit for Tat-like ’ strategies as roughly equivalent to an ESS in practice . |
| 9 | But although explanations of this kind provide some understanding of the class struggle , it is clear that Poulantzas does not regard them as enough . |
| 10 | One review has addressed the coexistence of autoimmune diseases in patients with inflammatory bowel disease , but although patients with ulcerative colitis had an increased prevalence of autoimmune disorders over controls , whose with Crohn 's disease did not . |
| 11 | But although increases in pay have tailed off , Mr Page said : ‘ Professional firms are not as aggressive as they could be on cutting salaries . |
| 12 | I 've seen dust before but and bits of fluff and rag and stuff but I 've never seen a bloody , and a nail damn great screw ! |
| 13 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 14 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 15 | But if members of Labour 's Philosophical Tendency , from Tony Benn to Bryan Gould , are choosing their words carefully it may be through fear of how they will look in each other 's diaries . |
| 16 | But if Jesus of Nazareth is not thought to be unique , and the Christian story is just a myth , why , one must ask , should one who is a feminist choose to take up this particular myth when it is so male , and has central to it a male person who is held to be unique ? |
| 17 | Maintaining teacher credibility and teacher self-respect is important but often this is done at some cost but if apologies to children and parents are justified then they should be made handsomely . |
| 18 | But if resort to civil remedies is impracticable for most individual investors the sanctions of the civil law can not play their proper role . |
| 19 | But if self-sufficiency in terms of cash is to be achieved at this level of demand then major discoveries in the frontier areas off Nova Scotia or Newfoundland in the Atlantic or in the Mackenzie Delta off the West Coast , will need to be made . |
| 20 | But if Clitheroe at the centre is a pretty town despite a couple of smoke stacks , the villages up the valley , like Waddington and Slaidburn where we slept , are grey stone and beautiful ; at Slaidburn there is a look at the 17th century . |
| 21 | But if progress in the past couple of decades has appeared hectic , there is plenty to come over the next two . |
| 22 | This does not mean that the officer must obtain the signatures of the proposer , seconder , etc. , but if advantage of this opportunity is taken , the officer is always willing to give assistance and advise the candidates as to the correct completion of nomination papers . |
| 23 | But if criteria for inclusion and exclusion are not technical and professional but based on a philosophy about what human beings are , then parental expertise can not be different in kind from that of professional ( unnatural ? ) experts . |
| 24 | But if hobbies like swimming , gardening and DIY fail to hold her attention she is threatening to help out at her local Citizens ' Advice Bureau . |
| 25 | But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists , the substantive gains they achieved were limited . |
| 26 | But if licenses for legal events are refused there are fears that raves will simply go back to the disused warehouses where the craze began . |
| 27 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 28 | But if Eurocrats in Brussels get their way , a pint of scrumpy could cost as much as two pounds fifty . |
| 29 | But if arrest before that were forbidden , it could seriously hamper the police . |
| 30 | Overall , representation increased the chances of success to about one in three , but if representation by a friend or relative is excluded , then the success rate for those with ‘ expert ’ representation rose to about two in five cases . |