Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions . |
| 2 | But where we have competed , accidentally in one case , deliberately in another , we 've been undercut by our rivals and we have n't got the job . |
| 3 | But where we are on Rotherhithe Road , it 's empty . |
| 4 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 5 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 6 | ‘ We may not be in the same league as Servette but where we score over most teams is with our spirit . |
| 7 | Well I 'm sorry but where we went it was great |
| 8 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 9 | Her gold hair lay round her like a mantle , but where its strands crossed her face they stirred a little with her breathing , so that the tailor knew she was alive . |
| 10 | It is a provision more appropriate to the French uplands where cooperatives and joint investments are commonplace but where its use will probably have no significant impact on nature conservation interests . |
| 11 | But where one concludes from this that theistic terms can not be understood , the other concludes that they are the language of ‘ faith ’ , directly given to the believer by God . |
| 12 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |
| 13 | one crucial thematic differentiation between ‘ genuine art ’ and that offered by the Culture Industry : both raise the issue and the possibility of happiness in their very being , as it were , and neither provides it ; but where one keeps faith with it by negation and suffering , the other assures us it is taking place . |
| 14 | Many whales also spend some considerable time swimming on the surface , where good sight is required but where their sonar is of little use . |
| 15 | but where their filmy skins caught the light |
| 16 | But where their particular disability impairs their access to the curriculum , this access should be facilitated by alternative means , and it should be recognised that the problem of access may hinder their initial progress , though they may be expected to catch up later . |
| 17 | But where they work , and age , and put off men |
| 18 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 19 | These can be round , or five-sided , up to a centimetre or so across , and have a small hole in their centre ; the stems can look like corals to the casual observer , but where they are broken they show the typical echinoderm reflective surfaces . |
| 20 | Most of these changes are very minor , but where they are significant , we will inform you or your travel agent when you book or , if you have already booked , as soon as is reasonably possible if there is time before your departure . |
| 21 | Hydrocephalus and spina bifida may not cause mental handicap , but where they do , the handicap can be very severe , causing blindness , severe spasticity , paralysis and profound mental handicap . |
| 22 | Elsewhere , it was stressed that no one wished to interfere with the ‘ responsible and competent parent ’ , but where they were not so , ‘ action is needed either to reinforce the consciousness or replace the incompetency ’ . |
| 23 | Doubtless most industrialists in the UK would concur , but where they might fall out with him is on the definition of ‘ robot ’ ( See Box below ) . |
| 24 | Golf courses might seem a very obvious use for redundant farm land , but where they are most needed — in the crowded South East — they have met most resistance from the environmental and Nimby ( not in my back yard ) lobbies . |
| 25 | Where they still exist , it is important that they are not undermined ; but where they have withered away , we need to look to new models which take account of the changing patterns and forces in modern society . |
| 26 | Most of these possibilities exclude animals but where they do not ( we might , for example , feel it appropriate to praise the sheepdog by saying that it has earned the right to a good meal ) the attribution is clearly analogical since it is based upon such a slim comparison with human capacity . |
| 27 | But where they address discourses of ‘ race ’ , sexuality , age , and class among subjects , they seem to find them difficult to deal with on their own terms . |
| 28 | But where they are subject to decay or vandalism , they are sometimes set up as finds for display in museums . |
| 29 | ‘ ( 1 ) strict rules of evidence were inherently inappropriate in a court concerned to decide whether there were substantial grounds for believing something , such as a court considering an application under the Bail Act 1976 ; ( 2 ) when considering an opposed application for bail justices were bound to investigate an alleged change of circumstance but where they erred by refusing so to do their subsequent order was not rendered void , although a court with appropriate jurisdiction could interfere to set it aside . |
| 30 | But where they fell down , they should have told you that was what would happen |