Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , George is off Monday and Tuesday but so if you were getting them , sitting here and bringing them up on Thursday John can come here and get his tea here and then take them home . |
| 2 | He is leading a Kings Kids Christmas tour in Ayrshire but before that he is off to Albania to look at opportunities of taking a team there in Summer ‘ 93 . |
| 3 | This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate . |
| 4 | ‘ My first aim has to be success with Llanelli but now that I 've accepted this position I 'm going to be totally committed to developing Welsh rugby ’ . |
| 5 | I ALREADY reviewed this back in July but now that it 's finally been given a British release ‘ Perfect Day ’ will , in time , be seen as a perfect moment from MFS 's classic period , alongside excursions from Cosmic Baby , Microglobe and Mind Gear . |
| 6 | This would imply , according to Pulgrum 's argument , not only that the Wolof could not communicate with Greenfield but also that they could not communicate with each other . |
| 7 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 8 | I did n't even notice that , but I did notice her across the road at Mrs and know so right she 'd been there I just did n't notice where she went , but I heard the bell ring and I could see this anorak through there and me mind thought Mrs , perhaps it 's Mrs but then when I saw this this lady well I just did n't know what to think really . |
| 9 | I may never see you again Elsie but even if I never do I can not change the way I feel . |
| 10 | This has happened in a number of developed countries — though not for the reasons given by Marx but primarily because of the growth of government and restrictive practices in labour markets . |
| 11 | The significance of this case is not only that the House of Lords effectively over-ruled the majority decision in Candler but also that in doing this the judgment went beyond Lord Denning 's minority judgment . |
| 12 | Asian countries remain dependent not only because the intellectual property system is controlled by the West but also because most of the major knowledge infrastructures are located in the West . |
| 13 | The madrigal and its cognate forms not only embodied the musical spirit of the age in southern Europe but ultimately provided the basic vocabulary of a new , Humanist type of monody , of opera , and even of independent instrumental music . |
| 14 | Claire herself had been beaten by Rebecca Foster but neatly and shrewdly worked her way back into the tournament with a strategic win over Rebecca Dunbar in the quarter final . |
| 15 | Three years earlier Richard had performed homage to King Louis at Montmirail but now that he had worn the ring of St Valerie he could claim that he held his duchy in indissoluble union with the people of Aquitaine and the saints who watched over them . |
| 16 | Real-time applications used to require coding exclusively in assembly language whereas the house keeping tasks could be coded in C. But now that the practices of software engineering are coming to bear on DSP projects , the emphasis is on a system approach ensuring quality becomes an intrinsic aspect of design . |
| 17 | The effects of the present structure of Heathrow but even if you see er , if you travel into from Heathrow on the M four to West Central London |
| 18 | In his response to the January 1986 Tunnel announcement Kent County Council Leader , Tony Hart , said ‘ the fixed link offers opportunities for Kent but only if there is a determination at national and local level to make sure Kent reaps the benefits — not just the drawbacks — from having the project on the doorstep ’ . |
| 19 | A Contains , " Why " , a surplus to B. But just because B follows A , is implied in B , and B is therefore no less precise than A. |
| 20 | He held that , on the assumption that the transfer to the Hammonds was a forgery , the court would have power under section 82(1) of the Land Registration Act 1925 to rectify the register not only as against the Hammonds but also as against the building society . |
| 21 | The unlucky loser was Reid but then that 's been the story of his season . |