Example sentences of "but [conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it need it to share the cost of the new one but once it goes on the |
| 4 | But if he springs for the Savoy , he 's going to want to try out the stuff he saw in Swedish Au Pairs Get Raunchy . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But if he gets into the Southampton match he 'll just have to cope . ’ |
| 6 | But if he comes to the top of the ridge , he is sure to come down here , because he w ill see the green leaves . |
| 7 | ‘ But if it falls below the 2.95 level against the Deutschemark , sterling will plummet . |
| 8 | If this happens within the mucosa , inflammation should correlate significantly with tissue damage as assessed by bleeding , but if it occurs within the intestinal lumen , the inflammation would be disproportionately greater than the bleeding such as is seen in classical exudation . |
| 9 | But if it remains on the teeth , it begins to damage the gums and causes gingivitis . |
| 10 | Most allegations of breach of privilege or contempt end there , but if it appears to the Speaker that there has been a prima facie breach of privilege , the matter will be referred to the Committee of Privileges , the function of which is to receive evidence , determine whether , in its view , a breach or contempt has occurred and , if so , report to this effect to the House with any recommendations thought fit . |
| 11 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
| 12 | It might be the authorities who give you permission but when it comes to the bit it 's the ordinary policeman who 's getting shot . |
| 13 | But when it comes to the Social Charter there may well be a case for slowing the grandiose Delors ideas . |
| 14 | But when it comes to the issue of how a given physical stimulus is actually perceived , we have chosen to represent this in terms of the central representational elements that it activates . |
| 15 | But when it comes to the ecstatically energised and demonstrative music , he either plays safe with tempi and tones down orchestral brilliance or , more alarmingly , decides to add a wealth of extra cymbal ( suspended and clashed ) , presumably in the misguided notion that more emphasis is required . |
| 16 | For most of the time , the people of Fort Worth are content to ponder their Van Cliburn autographs , but when it comes to the piano competition held every four years in honour , they don ten-gallon hats and yip . |
| 17 | But when it comes to the varieties of anthropology I get fussy , as you saw in Chapter l . |
| 18 | But when it comes to the dumping of Western waste , Africa faces a problem . |
| 19 | The council will always find money for whatever suits it , but when it comes to the elderly — the most vulnerable in our society — they always play ducks and drakes . |
| 20 | As far as the police are concerned it 's all one case and the same officer remains in charge , but when it comes to the judiciary it 's a completely unrelated development and a new magistrate has been appointed . ’ |
| 21 | But when it comes to the Trading Standards Board , what we 're saying is , if P and R and Policy Panel this Committee finds seventy thousand pounds ' worth of savings , then clearly item two represents a way of doing it . |
| 22 | But when it comes to the |
| 23 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 24 | But when it comes to the middle of the night , most of them prefer to leave it to mum to comfort the tiny tot when he 's having a tantrum . |
| 25 | There 's a few thirties and there 's a couple I think probably in their forties but when it comes to the high impact they do n't do it they just step it out you know . |
| 26 | She goes for the ones who erm think she , they can protect her , but when it comes to the crunch she 'd have to be the one that protects them . |
| 27 | The early stages of the rise of Venice arc obscure and ill-documented ; but when it comes into the light of day it is ruled already by a duke or doge popularly elected , yet normally chosen from , and dependent on , the great families of the Rialto , the chief island of the archipelago on which Venice is crazily and romantically constructed . |
| 28 | For example , the word ‘ of ’ has the weak form in the following sentence : ‘ I 'm fond of chips ’ but when it comes at the end of the sentence , as in the following example , it has the strong form : ‘ Chips are what I 'm fond of ’ Many of the words given below ( particularly the first nine ) never occur at the end of a sentence , e.g. ‘ the ’ , ‘ your ’ . |
| 29 | But when he gets to the other side of the crossroads it 's not Rose , after all . |
| 30 | But when he comes to the foot of the mountain and sees the worship of the calf for himself , we hear the sound of his anger too , and see him smashing the tablets of stone that he has brought down from the summit inscribed with God 's torah . |