Example sentences of "but [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Hull also say that if the pair decide to change codes it will be for realistic sums of money . |
| 2 | The Lelands stayed to carry on their work but friction quickly developed and , four months after the take-over the Lelands quit . |
| 3 | But Tritsis always claimed that his politics were shaped more by memories of the horrors of the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949 . |
| 4 | Opinions may be expressed in accounts and directors may be able to select accounting policies , but readers often react as though those choices are made by unprejudiced seekers after truth . |
| 5 | The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List allocates him a reign of three years , with one variant reading of two , but Bede also says that Caedwalla reigned for two years before his abdication in 688 ( HE IV , 12 : V , 7 ) ( see also above , p. 51 ) . |
| 6 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 7 | ‘ If yow 'd done that ter me I 'd ave wrung yer bloody neck , ’ Mrs Phipps chipped in , but Frankie only grinned and dropped the kettle , contents and all , on her foot . |
| 8 | I had been heartened by their performance , but Pat really thought that , in its basic approach , the Government was right . |
| 9 | But insolvency again intervened and he died in the Fleet prison in 1683 . |
| 10 | Blackfishing has since gone into decline , but whalers still pursue and kill other small cetaceans , such as killer whales and small spinner dolphins . |
| 11 | But Djwa rightly perceives that ‘ reading through Cohen 's work we become aware of an unsatisfied search for an absolute . ’ |
| 12 | But Gilligan also says that she is not interested simply in data , and that her arguments do not depend on the statistical significance of her results . |
| 13 | Claudia would have shrivelled at the note in Roman 's voice , but Dana only laughed and put her hand on his arm . |
| 14 | ‘ This was n't conclusive in itself ’ , says Ainsworth , ‘ but Grosshans correctly noted that the perspective in our painting had been subtly altered , mostly in the architectural surround , to conform with a one-point perspective , which is a much later fifteenth-century development . |
| 15 | His argument may have turned out indecisively , but Halley evidently believed that scientific data were relevant to theological questions . |
| 16 | This became the Working Committee of the UGCC , but Nkrumah rapidly discovered that there was little else : there were only two branches , both inactive . |
| 17 | But Katherine also realized that the longer ti took , the more chance there was of them leaving the country . |
| 18 | ‘ But Jake then said that Captain Hook got away . |
| 19 | But seneschals still itinerated when they arrived in the duchy to take up office — receiving oaths from the king-duke 's Gascon subjects and swearing a reciprocal oath to them . |
| 20 | But Ted just smiled and said , ‘ This is my last chance to be happy . |
| 21 | But Zechariah also prophesied that the Messiah , descended from David , would be pierced and killed , and his followers scattered . |
| 22 | But governments now believe that if they are to tackle new subjects at a European level they must tighten their control . |
| 23 | But Ralph neither wanted nor expected much praise for what he did — he did it mainly because he wanted to prevent other children from experiencing the pain which he himself had felt , and , in the back of his mind , he knew Piggy would have approved . |
| 24 | But sources yesterday indicated that Suntory would not be involved . |
| 25 | But Bolinger also believes that there is a correlation with syntax , or at least with the facts of surface syntactic form . |
| 26 | ‘ But Adam eventually decided that he could n't afford such sentimental generosity . ’ |
| 27 | Tremayne and Mackie appeared mystified but Sam immediately understood and looked thunderstruck . |
| 28 | In that it gives us ‘ knowledge ’ , as opposed to mere ‘ belief ’ or ‘ faith ’ , of course it has ; but Locke also means that revelation must be answerable to reason . |
| 29 | But Saints yesterday confirmed that the booking took Hurlock 's disciplinary points tally to 20 , one short of an automatic two-match ban . |
| 30 | The destination of the remaining carbon is not clear , but Sedjo now proposes that it is in fact being absorbed by the new plantations in temperate lands . |