Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my opinion , working to ensure that your family is well fed is good religion but I remember how careful Dad was about his Good Friday movements . |
| 2 | Culture and identity are part of the story of racial sensibility but they do not exhaust that story . |
| 3 | It 's an old remedy but I think |
| 4 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , who puts scores of women through her Tums & Bums exercise classes , replied : ‘ Most people phoned hoping for a magic remedy but it does n't exist . |
| 5 | He , he , he was er more or less well off , still in , in Terrace but you know he was , they seemed to be well off and probably were . |
| 6 | ‘ To be a member of the Labour party you had to be a member of the staff association but I did n't know at the time , ’ says Davies . |
| 7 | Now correlation , in a similar way , measures something similar to association but it gives you a bit more detail . |
| 8 | Best said : ‘ I can see the thinking but I think it 's stupid . |
| 9 | ‘ I know friends think I 'm a bit outdated in my thinking but I do n't understand women who just live with men . |
| 10 | A poor attendance rate can signal condoned truancy but it needs to be used with other measures of attendance , and on a regular basis , to help schools to improve pupils ' attendance . |
| 11 | That improvement upset the old fifty-yard rhythm but it did n't much matter . |
| 12 | He is a very nice horse but we have not been able to test him in Dubai , ’ said Conway . |
| 13 | ‘ He is not the most robust horse but I knew he was in good shape . |
| 14 | Sandra Cooper , 33 , midwife and founder of the Darlington Miscarriage Association , said : ‘ Women who have had a miscarriage experience grief but they have no record of their unborn child . |
| 15 | Sandra Cooper , 33 , midwife and founder of the Darlington Miscarriage Association , said : ‘ Women who have had a miscarriage experience grief but they have no record of their unborn child . |
| 16 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 17 | Mary tottered up on her perch from side to side but nothing wiped the mild , sweet benignity from her doll 's face as she dropped the dew of her mercy down from heaven on the mortal exiles below wailing and weeping in the vale of tears . |
| 18 | And of course it 's heat of the sun which strikes the other side but which misses our side . |
| 19 | Well we done about seventeen of them but mainly on the super mail side but we stick to the one sort of with |
| 20 | ‘ We did some homework on their side but we know them so well it was hardly needed . ’ |
| 21 | If we 've got two side but we have n't got an angle then we 'll just use Pythagoras . |
| 22 | you can get little speakers to put on the side but they use loads of power they do . |
| 23 | Her hands , he had complained laughing , were a bit on the small side but they had learned strength and the skill was there already . |
| 24 | The ventral interradial areas are covered by similar spinelets to the dorsal side but they become less dense nearer the proximal part of the disk . |
| 25 | ‘ Every club years ago had a tough-tackling defender in their side but they did n't resort to the tactics he is talking about . |
| 26 | ‘ He played it into the side but it powered off again and he complained that his arms were hurting , so I took the rod back from him and landed the fish , ’ he added . |
| 27 | Paul was saying that I mean , they 're a hundred percent nomination housing the people who need the housing most are are n't the ones who who 'll be able to er , to use the and there 's no housing strategy on on er o o on the equity part , the the there might be , only a tiny bit , on on on the rent side but it does n't homes fo for the people who really need it , even if they 've got a hundred percent nomination flats ! |
| 28 | on that side but it 's got a little bit of black on it , do you reckon that 's anything to do with it ? |
| 29 | squares the ball to his left and Alan the left back just pushes it out wide to that far side but he loses out , competing successfully , he 's got going forward if he can find him , and gets it and lays it off to and can now run at Mickey once more . |
| 30 | Henry 's mother hardly left his side but he improved and at 8pm on 31 March she went to have something to eat , leaving her son playing in the doorway of his room . |