Example sentences of "but [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Drop in when you 're passing ’ , they say , but nothing but humiliation faces those who do , and see someone else at the desk that was once their 's and find everyone too busy to chat . |
| 32 | Whitaker ( 1979 : 229 ) records how these ‘ college men ’ are described sardonically at police station level , as ‘ plastic men — who know all about how to hold a knife and fork , but nothing about how to catch villains ’ . |
| 33 | The first draft has ‘ he thought to himself ’ but nothing about the sister . |
| 34 | It is a system insidious but extremely powerful , where pupils may end up learning quite a lot about the way of life in ancient Rome and Greece but nothing about the way of life of their fellow pupils who are black . |
| 35 | I knew something about Catalonia but nothing about Andorra , except that it was a tiny independent principality , one of the world 's smallest countries , set high in the eastern Pyrenees . |
| 36 | When he appears again in The Stormy Petrel , part of his duty is to encourage the prospective King Carol , a timid boy under Count Jasper 's Regency — a boy who , as Dick complains , knows ‘ a lot out of books ’ but nothing about ‘ real things ’ , which he defines as : |
| 37 | You spent some time describing how the linesiders were disappointed but nothing about the sterling work done by the loco department at Loughborough to put matters right and ensure a full days running on the Sunday . |
| 38 | I knew nothing , but nothing about it . ’ |
| 39 | He knows all about the figures but nothing about the reality behind them . |
| 40 | The Patois index therefore tells us everything and nothing about an individual speaker : it tells us whether that person uses many or few Patois features overall in their talk , but nothing about how he or she uses Patois and English as part of a communicative strategy . |
| 41 | I thought it was interesting as well that the stuff I got from the I and R V with it , was a lot about audio description and the tape and how much it cost and how wonderful this was and it was the first time it had ever been done , but there was nothing , as is always the case , there was nothing actually about what the film was about , it was full of sort of , this is the first time it 's done , but nothing about sort of this is the film about , about this , this is what the story 's about , you know . |
| 42 | Juliet had told her a little about her own adoption , and her search for Elaine , but nothing about her talk to Celia and her great-aunt . |
| 43 | This is sound judgement but nothing beyond the reach of average mortals . |
| 44 | From the nourishment of the trunk the unit can draw basic sustenance but nothing beyond that . |
| 45 | for most of his life he has been stuck with a reputation for finding the Goons funny , but nothing since that era . |
| 46 | There was a string of seed pearls my father gave me , and two rings of my mother 's and a brooch or two — but nothing worth a lot of money . ’ |
| 47 | She thought it unlikely that he would marry again , but nothing between them would change , however many wives entered , or attempted to enter , his life . |
| 48 | Romantic behind its walls , yes , but nothing to the great city I had known . |
| 49 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 50 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 51 | He was surprised but nothing in his voice showed this . |
| 52 | The two names she had mentioned are of course rhyming slang for ‘ pissed ’ , but nothing in Rebecca Kraemer 's innocent little face betrayed whether or not she was aware of this . |
| 53 | But nothing in the text says so . |
| 54 | But nothing in the language used justifies the conclusion that the mortgagor was agreeing to pay , or to permit to be charged on the mortgaged property , costs , charges and expenses that had been unreasonably incurred or that were unreasonable in amount . |
| 55 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 56 | Leaving messages here and there , but nothing in particular . ’ |
| 57 | But nothing in the response of the Al Fayeds ' advisers , for all its bluster and menace , rebutted my basic case or added one jot of information to explain the origins of the brothers ' wealth . |
| 58 | But nothing in politics is forever and Mrs Thatcher 's luck could run out . |
| 59 | ( a ) This rule applies whether the business concerned is in England and Wales or outside the jurisdiction ; but nothing in this rule prevents the setting up outside the jurisdiction of a practice complying with Rules 8 or 9 of the Solicitors ' Overseas Practice Rules 1990 . |
| 60 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |