Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a connection which would almost certainly not have developed but for Gloucester 's duchy office . |
| 2 | This was a connection which would almost certainly not have developed but for Gloucester 's duchy office . |
| 3 | The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble over a non-existent obstacle , there was a blackness before her eyes and she would have fallen but for his lightning reactions and the strong hand that grasped her elbow , supporting her . |
| 4 | It ran gently down the slope , and there it might have stopped but for Donald . |
| 5 | Obviously Jackson could have proposed these many things plus the obliteration of the moon and none of it , none of his isolate and courageous and visionary ideas would have mattered but for the huge national endorsement he received . |
| 6 | Where else could it have come but from your beautiful , selfish mother ? |
| 7 | Prosecution counsel Mr CHristopher Clarke QC said the plan would have succeeded but for an important factor which Jones had overlooked . |
| 8 | Janice might have quit but for her strong conviction , as a Christian , that the service element is a high part of the calling for anyone in employment . |
| 9 | The right course , so the argument runs , is to do what the Attorney-General would have done but for the reverses suffered in the extradition proceedings , namely to postpone the Barclays ( Asia ) and West L.B. trials until B.M.F.L. is out of the way . |
| 10 | Perhaps I might not have done but for information which has recently come my way concerning your financial circumstances . |
| 11 | When the police were billeted in the colliery , the safety men came to work , which they would not have done but for the presence of the police . |
| 12 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 13 | Quinn sat on the floor , his back against the hard wall , and would have dozed but for the questions from Simon . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he obtained a Commission in the Regular Army before the Great War of 1914 — 1918 , in which he was wounded by a sniper 's bullet through a lung , and would have died but for the fact that one of his men , having also been wounded , fell on top of ‘ Monty ’ and thereby , protected him from further sniper bullets until darkness permitted rescue to be made . |
| 15 | A court heard that the shop owner would have died but for the prompt action of two ambulancemen . |
| 16 | A court heard that the shop owner would have died but for the prompt action of two ambulancemen . |
| 17 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 18 | If the injury due to the escape of the noxious thing would not have occurred but for the unusual sensitiveness of the plaintiff 's property , there is some conflict of authority whether this can be regarded as default of the plaintiff . |
| 19 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But where the delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault . ’ |
| 21 | This basic test is whether the damage would not have occurred but for the breach of duty . |
| 22 | The old craftsmen may have disappeared but in their place there is a bank , chemist , butcher , grocers , and many more essential services , trading in the same cottages built more than a hundred years ago , so not destroying the character and heritage of the village . |
| 23 | Two nights under the same roof as Ernie Love had , he suspected , sealed his condition , for Ernie represented the squalor and futility to which his own life could so easily have led but for the sense of purpose looking for Heather had brought to it . |
| 24 | A large surplus would have resulted but for the $20 billion rise in the cost of oil imports as the OPEC price increases coincided with — indeed , were encouraged by — rising US oil imports ( chapter 13 ) . |
| 25 | In the congested space few bullets could have missed their mark and the slaughter would probably have continued but for the presence of mind of the officer in charge of the war drums , who ordered them to beat the signal for silence , when the madness ceased as soon as it had arisen . |
| 26 | It is interesting to speculate what would have happened but for the winter of 1709 . |
| 27 | This might indeed have happened but for the good fortune of it being discovered by Frits and Maaike Luikens , a Dutch couple who were living in Alford at that time . |
| 28 | This concession would not have happened but for the pressure brought to bear on the authorities . |
| 29 | no liability shall arise to the Vendor and the Purchaser shall not have any claim whatsoever against the Vendor in respect of any breach of any of the Warranties if and to the extent that such breach or claim would not have arisen but for any voluntary act , omission , transaction or arrangement after Completion of the Purchaser ; |
| 30 | C.5 which would not have arisen but for acts of the Purchaser after Completion ; |