Example sentences of "but [det] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are landmarks and turning points in the movement 's evolution but few paintings that demand to be considered or discussed at the expense of others . |
| 2 | Last year , there were 215 such properties ( 1.35 pc of total stock ) , but this year that has fallen to 119 ( 0.75 pc of total stock ) . |
| 3 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 4 | Other quick-growing plants are tomatoes and runner beans , but these plants that mature in the autumn are not really suitable for schools that have a long August holiday , as continuity is lost , even if help is available to care for the plants . |
| 5 | er s er but those occupations that worked shift and had to go round the clock had to have eight hour shifts , three shifts . |
| 6 | Not only were the largest firms the most criminal , but those corporations that dominated ’ the oil , pharmaceutical and motor vehicle industries were the most likely to violate the law . ’ |
| 7 | Fresh green growths should not be cut down , but any stems that have yellowed and withered can be cleared away . |
| 8 | But any minority that included Sir Stafford Cripps , who had succeeded Hugh Dalton as Chancellor of the Exchequer on 13 November 1947 , and Aneurin Bevan was unlikely to have gone unheard . |
| 9 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 10 | But any magazine that retains a nonagenarian film critic and a weekly cartoonist who has entered his eighth decade can hardly be said to be immature . |
| 11 | At around £30 , they 're hardly an impulse buy , but any volume that contains Broadway Danny Rose , The Purple Rose of Cairo and Hannah and Her Sisters ( PG and 15 ) is worth saving for . |
| 12 | ‘ We had enough chances to be in the game , ’ claimed Bristol boss Denis Smith , ‘ but any team that gets a corner against us is likely to score . ’ |
| 13 | But any solution that involves disconnecting activity from true values may in the long term take an even greater toll . |