Example sentences of "but [conj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe the French Texel must be a strong sheep and have size , but if breeders take it too far they may lose the qualities that are fundamental to the breed as a successful crossing sire for the commercial producer , ’ says Mrs Martin . |
| 2 | ‘ But if members tell us they are in dire straits , without a job , gone bankrupt , and the wife 's run off with the milkman , then we will move heaven and earth to help them . |
| 3 | But if women learn their social orientation , it may not be as universal or as unchanging as these female-associated methods suggest . |
| 4 | But if players have their way , as they have in Berlin , the age of the megalomaniac conductor , the age of Karajan , may be over for ever . |
| 5 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 6 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 7 | But if parents buy it for the child the dividend is considered part of the parents income . |
| 8 | We did n't invite friends with Mother being placed as she was , but if neighbours called they would be offered a glass of something , usually home-made ginger cordial , and a bit of cake if we had it . |
| 9 | The Sixth Fleet , Talbot was aware , would have informed him of the presence of any of their aircraft in his vicinity , not from courtesy but because regulations demanded it , a fact of which O'Rourke was as well aware as he was . |
| 10 | But after critics savaged his second symphony , Elgar became deeply depressed and never wrote another major work . |
| 11 | But when magistrates told her she 'd be jailed for three months , she collapsed in the dock . |
| 12 | But when police illuminated their blue light he pulled over . |
| 13 | responses but when men use them it quite often delay . |
| 14 | But when events forced her on to the centre of the political stage , she took her role very seriously indeed . |
| 15 | The two men just want to brew their traditional beers and make enough money to live on , but as things stand it 's becoming more and more difficult . |
| 16 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 17 | The lamp , also called the lava lamp , was launched in 1963 but as fashions changed its popularity declined . |
| 18 | Women participate , not as feminists , but as revolutionaries to free ourselves from exploitation . |
| 19 | Wigwams , canvas and tarpaulin shelters need to be erected by adults , but as children help they are experiencing one-to-one correspondence with tapes to loops or hooks to holes , etc. and will soon say : |