Example sentences of "[adj] but [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could understand the connection made between hair and being manly but when you came to think of it , it was n't really true . |
| 2 | That 's understandable and to some extent justifiable but if it creates the impression in anyone 's mind that the U S has a presidential system of government er then they would be sadly mistaken . |
| 3 | Tim just shrugs and says : ‘ You do things not because you are brave but because you are a kind of perverse coward . |
| 4 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 5 | And that 's wrong but if you , if you told Carole that she would n't believe you . |
| 6 | Or : ‘ Two meals is OK but if there 's a club afterwards , then any more counts as stringing him along . ’ |
| 7 | As Victoria Wood said , if it 's in bad taste it 's not funny but if it 's funny it 's not in bad taste . ’ |
| 8 | Are quite high but when you come down then you same size . |
| 9 | I do n't know I mean er maybe these are minute but whether you should explore them at that moment in time I mean only experience will tell . |
| 10 | We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance . |
| 11 | In sum , alternative policies for sterling were not carefully considered at that time , not because they were unrealistic but because they were politically uncongenial and ran counter to powerful vested interests [ Bauer and Walters , 1975 ] . |
| 12 | Her real sweetheart was an alcoholic but although he was her one and only true love she had impetuously married a solicitor . |
| 13 | Our language can never be entirely value free but when you speak or write you need to think carefully of the effect it is having on others . |
| 14 | You may treat them as your children since they were two years old but if they 're not a blood relative of yours they wo n't be inheriting anything anyway however close they may be . |
| 15 | Dogs , like men , can look very different but when it comes to sex they all know that they are members of one species and they are not culturally inhibited from taking appropriate action . |
| 16 | Play in pairs , it 's different but when you 're just playing singles , you can say or maybe you could sort of friends that go , you 'd probably say something like , are you sure ? |
| 17 | I do n't think our votes are going to be crucial but whether they , what they |
| 18 | Well I know the the when we had the er I T V , you know , over Christmas it said in there it was on Central but when I turned it on it was n't at all . |
| 19 | I do n't make it blatant but when he makes that deal at the end of the film you know what he 's doing . |
| 20 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 21 | For some reason , Belgion had resented this observation , not because he thought it untrue but because he claimed to have said it first . |
| 22 | It 's probably pretty straightforward but as it 's close … ’ |
| 23 | in some cases it may be appropriate but if you 're forcing people to make comments just because there 's a space to do it |
| 24 | I 've learnt a lot of things — how to bath a baby , feed a baby , it sounds dead simple but when you get that baby in your hands you 're shaking . |
| 25 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
| 26 | He put in a kitchen and he thought there was something funny about these people erm they did n't want to give him money up front for the fabric , you know , the woods and things and he was n't asking the full amount anyway and he said , you know , a things are very tight in business and I do not want to run up any more debts if you will let me have some of cash , some of the cash fo for the wood as soon as the wood 's delivered I 'll come and do the job , it 's not as though your money is going to be tied up in any way and there was a bit of a face pulling and saw this woman drop to , sort of , always hovering around always putting her motty in and erm when th when the job was nearly completed madam steps forward with the cries of that is n't quite right and that is n't quite right and Nev was putting hours doing nit-picking fussing about getting things absolutely perfect got it absolutely perfect but when it came to the final bill they knocked off six hundred because there was the tiniest little scratch on one of the panels ! |
| 27 | normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you 're driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of + stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it 's just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate ( kAz ) — colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean ++ ( Postgraduate student speaking informally ) |
| 28 | I mean it 's not gon na be , it 's not gon na be easy but if we start developing it erm there 's no reason |
| 29 | Erm Only trouble , there 's a snare drum you can turn it onto snare or ordinary but when you have it on snare , if you play or anything it rattles ! |
| 30 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |