Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 2 | They 're in love with rhythm but they still believe in songs . |
| 3 | Leicester 's Geordie boss Brian Little , in contrast , paraded his strongest side but they rarely threatened Newcastle . |
| 4 | It 's a bit bust on one side but I really like it . |
| 5 | On Bemal 's return he was under great pressure to make his own appreciation but he merely said ‘ Danckwerts has said it all . |
| 6 | He 's only doing it for my own good but I still do n't like it . |
| 7 | The bible forbids the taking of blood but we also believe it protects us against many of the medical problems which exist today |
| 8 | The existing professional service is not replaced by the programme but it probably enhances the uptake of services such as immunisation clinics and parenting classes , as well as helping parents to recognise their own expertise in discussion with professionals . |
| 9 | Years ago he had made a doll 's house for her ; he had made it beautifully with proper wallpaper in the rooms and a tiny lavatory but he never got around to making the roof or putting hinges on the back . |
| 10 | I once said to him , Mother 's in the lavatory but she never locks the door . ’ |
| 11 | Since the beginning , song-writing had been almost totally Gedge 's department but it later became more shared . |
| 12 | My second term after Christmas was much smoother as a result but it still held problems . |
| 13 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 14 | This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking , for which you may face a lifetime ban . |
| 15 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 16 | There was a certain amount of gossip but it soon died down . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't make a systematic study but I occasionally followed up clues if I came across references in books and catalogues . |
| 18 | Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones . |
| 19 | the pink bits the bit that fits onto ridge , they 've got three screws in each piece but they only need two to hold them , so I 've taken the centre one out of each one and used it to do the |
| 20 | To minimise borrowing rates and maximise investing rates you should always get more than one quote , a simple rule but one often overlooked in the pressure of events . |
| 21 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 22 | no they do at the Samuel Beckett , it 's the and okay , it 's a good new Embassy advert but I still do n't smoke Embassy because they 're horrible . |
| 23 | In the beginning they offered me aversion therapy but I furiously refused that . |
| 24 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 25 | It produces that effect but it also makes er males more aggressive , more likely to take risks , which explains the accident figures , more likely to become involved in violence . |
| 26 | As a Government , we wanted a good pharmaceutical industry but we also wanted good value for the health service . |
| 27 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 28 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 29 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 30 | We , of the Rupert Bear generations , may not have retained our innocence but we surely have a duty to keep a sense of responsibility to the next generation . |