Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 1 ) strict rules of evidence were inherently inappropriate in a court concerned to decide whether there were substantial grounds for believing something , such as a court considering an application under the Bail Act 1976 ; ( 2 ) when considering an opposed application for bail justices were bound to investigate an alleged change of circumstance but where they erred by refusing so to do their subsequent order was not rendered void , although a court with appropriate jurisdiction could interfere to set it aside . |
| 2 | But where I thought of this part of the game as the worst , Ken positively savoured it . |
| 3 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 4 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 5 | In this I was no different from Michael , but where he thought of eagles , I thought of dolphins . |
| 6 | It seemed improbable that the fine hot weather should continue right through the summer , but so it did for most of us . |
| 7 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 8 | What Mr Major should have said , if he was intent on justifying his decision , was that many of the executions were grotesque by any civilised standards , but that they accorded with the code of discipline that was in force at the time . |
| 9 | Nothing is known of Eardwulf 's ancestry except that he was a son of an Eardwulf , but that he belonged to a family with strong Ripon associations is probable . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that Greek was not the native language of the author but that he wrote in the universal language of the day which was Greek , while thinking in his own language which was probably Aramaic . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps not , ’ Travis agreed , then said how he 'd dearly love to ring Rosemary at her parents ' home , but that he knew for sure that he could definitely give up even the frail hope he had left of sharing his life with Rosemary if he did that . |
| 12 | He simply said that he did not know how the M.P.s would react in his favour but that he counted on me to work with him . |
| 13 | I told them that there was no doubt in my mind but that I wanted to be a paratrooper . |
| 14 | Thereby he had represented to the finance company that the van was not his but that it belonged to the trader . |
| 15 | Excavations suggested that the site was abandoned in the fourteenth century , possibly for climatic reasons , but that it originated in middle Saxon times . |
| 16 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 17 | At the start of the story Anna is portrayed as being ‘ perfectly unaffected and was not trying to conceal anything , but that she lived in another , higher world full of complex poetic interests beyond reach ’ . |
| 18 | Looking ahead , Mr Hely Hutchinson said that company plans continued to make cautious assumptions about the general economic outlook , but that there appeared to be some positive indications . |
| 19 | At the moment this innovatory scheme was still at the planning stage , but once it got off the ground I could n't fail to gross a minimum of fifty thou in the first year of operation , after which the sky was the limit . |
| 20 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 21 | It clearly had very different meanings in these teachers ' minds , but although we talked about these together , it was not so easy to put them into words . |
| 22 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 23 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 24 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 25 | But although he toyed with it , Mr Broadhurst had no patience with the search for the sophic hydrolith . |
| 26 | But although he smiled in the face of the direst provocation , underneath he was as determined as Ricky to go to ten . |
| 27 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 28 | But although he talked of acting as a craft , he took no trouble over it . ’ |
| 29 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 30 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |