Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 2 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 3 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 4 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 5 | What Mr Major should have said , if he was intent on justifying his decision , was that many of the executions were grotesque by any civilised standards , but that they accorded with the code of discipline that was in force at the time . |
| 6 | The mechanic says that on that year the truck the part was handcrafted in Zogmolia near Flelzonia and not only is it double reverse threaded but that its made from a rare alloy rendered from toxic wastes in New Jersey ; however , he has assured me while trying to hold back a laugh and spraying spittle all over me he knows a junk yard on Mars where he can get the part soon . |
| 7 | Nothing is known of Eardwulf 's ancestry except that he was a son of an Eardwulf , but that he belonged to a family with strong Ripon associations is probable . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 9 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 10 | Thereby he had represented to the finance company that the van was not his but that it belonged to the trader . |
| 11 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 12 | God knows what had possessed me to put my proper name on my real driving licence , but once it goes into the DVLC computer , it stays . |
| 13 | If it need it to share the cost of the new one but once it goes on the |
| 14 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 15 | But once you look at the £10 to £15 bracket , high street champagne is definitely a good deal more impressive . |
| 16 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 17 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 18 | But although they live on the edge of Wentworth Golf Course , Lady Haslam prefers gardening when at home . |
| 19 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 20 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 21 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 22 | The surface integral converts by Gauss 's theorem to a volume integral , as before , so that But and we know from the equation of motion ( 2.18 ) that . |
| 23 | But if one starts from the spontaneous inclination itself , the question arises whether it makes sense to call it egoistic before it has been chosen in terms of the agent 's own standards for the beneficial . |
| 24 | I think in general terms , we were having a discussion only the other day , and thinking of possible applications of one form of another of microprocessors , only very generally I might add , but if we thought of an application which would save paying someone 's salary on a weekly or monthly basis , then that would be attractive for obvious reasons , you know , that the sort of when one totals up wages and salaries over a full year then that 's a significant saving to be made and therefore it justifies the initial investment cost in whatever the system might be . |
| 25 | But if we go in the park she can run more , or in the summer we go down by the old railway track do n't we ? |
| 26 | But if we asked about the history of the appearance of characters then the answer is ‘ yes ’ . |
| 27 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 28 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 29 | I Obviously I ca n't preempt a discussion , but if we think on the evidence we see in in October that er that that is the course to take , we would do so . |
| 30 | But if we think of the conscious subject as located within , or identical to , the brain , then external relations are beyond his gaze . |