Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But iff you actually allow B R as an organization to bid , I think it 's making a nonsense of privatization because you 're saying in essence there is n't anything wrong with B R management at the moment and we 'll let them take over the network . |
| 2 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 3 | Many pilots find that they manage safely on their first few short cloud climbs but that they soon get tired and lose their concentration . |
| 4 | It is not that they are too slow to avoid being hit , but that they simply do not hear the cars speeding towards them . |
| 5 | They choose the following extract and ask you to submit a target version of it , stating that they appreciate that you may not have had time to read the whole novel but that they just want to see how you might handle Le Carré 's language . |
| 6 | This , teachers and educational technologists will always happily agree , is the librarian 's professional job , and what surprises people is not that librarians classify and catalogue but that they sometimes believe they know something about the contents of their books and AV items , offer advice on quality and relevance , and have pronounced views on how they would like their libraries to be used . |
| 7 | What people sometimes fail to realise is that standard provisions are fine as a general guide but that they often have to be amended ( or even dropped altogether ) to allow the transaction to make ‘ commercial sense ’ on both sides . |
| 8 | Not that I 'm suggesting that we should be soft when children do wrong but that we just reverse the ratio of our attention and energy from the negative to the positive . |
| 9 | Erm it 's quite clear there 's going to be no more new money for patient care and without that I do n't think we 're going to get the increase in quality of service but that we actually need . |
| 10 | Tradition required not only that she rot in constricted shade with the disintegrating corpse of her husband , but that she also eat a special diet for the entire period , which excluded any rice at all . |
| 11 | Traditionally , Archdeacon Oliver explains , archdeacons dealt with legal and property matters , but although they still have to keep an eye on architects and parsonage houses , their work is far more , nowadays , to do with pastoral negotiation . |
| 12 | What I was gon na suggest is that , we actually put something in the bulletin , not in the sense of , well , you know please report your illnesses kind of thing , but if we just make people aware of actually this sort of environmental control thing would be a good idea . |
| 13 | It is rooted in his own quite complex philosophy but if we really wish to understand his argument we must start at a rather abstract level . |
| 14 | But if we ever leave the room at all , always pull the chair back . |
| 15 | But if we then turn to the ego — and , still more , the superego — and try to understand the sequence of development there we may find ourselves in the predicament of a person who tried to investigate the musical education of a child who had started learning the piano with grade 2 , then gone on to grade 3 , and finally ended with grade 1 ! |
| 16 | For example , ( 10 ) certainly seems to mean ( 11 ) ; but if we then build the " uncertainty " interpretation in ( 11 ) into the meaning of possible , ( 12 ) should be an outright contradiction . |
| 17 | But if we now recall the alternative definition of democracy as popular power , or popular sovereignty , then it becomes clear that it can not be a democratic act for the people to vote away their own power and their own rights ; any more than if I freely renounce my freedom I can remain free because the renunciation was a free act . |
| 18 | But if we only know the bell according to those systems we call logic or science , then we can only talk about bells . |
| 19 | But if they nevertheless persist in making that perambulation in the manner aforesaid , we must endure it for the present , and await an opportune time to amend it . |
| 20 | I know but if they just start |
| 21 | If people want to be misled , then follow Sinead-ism , but if they just want the simple truth without any religious crud , then accept Christ 's teaching . |
| 22 | but if they really catch them cos they 're down here a lot now because of er what 's going on underneath those arches |
| 23 | But if they once acknowledge |
| 24 | Every reasonable effort is made to provide it but if they merely demand ‘ everything you 've got ’ on a particular accident they are told firmly but politely that such a request is not acceptable . |
| 25 | ‘ But if they still show the same thing we are all going to have to respond to it . |
| 26 | Yes , Jackie has the whereabouts , now if she keeps , she also keeps a list of the erm support staff , but if they actually go out at lunch time that we do n't know . |
| 27 | But if they actually put that , the ca they do |
| 28 | But if they ever cut the money or knock something off , we 'd be in deep . |
| 29 | But if they suddenly have the urge to express their senior status in relation to a new pet in the home they may revert to the age-old manner of doing this , much to the distress of their well-meaning owners , who probably bought the new kitten as a special companion for the older cat . |
| 30 | That 's , that 's just like me that is , if I get into a rhythm and someone gives er , I can do it then , but if I just sit on a page , I think oh how do you do that ? |