Example sentences of "but [subord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where we find the law is deliberately being ignored or flouted , inspectors will be prepared to take firm enforcement action , particularly if serious risks to health and safety are evident or where what needs to be done is not new , i.e. where existing duties have simply been replaced by new legislation . ’ |
| 2 | But where we feel the greatest pressure is in Cologne 's diminished capacity to launch major exhibitions . |
| 3 | Yeah , but where she bought the house then ? |
| 4 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 5 | Widnes held Cas and led 4-2 at half-time but once they had the wind at their backs in the second half , they began to dominate . |
| 6 | The driveway was still snowed up , but once they reached the road there was a narrow track between high mounds on each side . |
| 7 | you know , so just half a gui but it , it got that , but once they changed the opening hours do you remember when they brought in six |
| 8 | But once we have the treasure , we 'll find it soon enough . |
| 9 | No one had a drink before the food arrived , but once it did the wine flowed freely : the best lambrusco , the best fortana and finally the moscato , a sweet , white , generally fizzy wine made with selected muscatel grapes . |
| 10 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 11 | And w would that be the talk about the door but once you had the door off . |
| 12 | You get the first week will seem a bit strange but once you get the first week over you 're alright then . |
| 13 | But once you got the bone , you take it home , bake it , dry it well , and break it up into powder . |
| 14 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 15 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 16 | There is no quick and easy way to build muscles , but once you obtain the correct balance between training , rest and recovery , and diet , then your muscles certainly will grow . |
| 17 | But once you open the book and view the video you realise that for £62 you have the best buy in town . |
| 18 | Nigel Vaughan did a passable impersonation of Liam Brady and Peter Reid for 35 minutes , but once he tired the home attacks lost any semblance of variety . |
| 19 | Patterns emerge of circles within circles as she moves around the stage but although one admires the almost casually loose-limbed nature of her dance there are times when the images begin to blur and attention is apt to wander . |
| 20 | But although she recognised the truth of what she was saying , Folly felt suddenly depressed . |
| 21 | But although she slammed the phone down in fine style , she was shaken horribly . |
| 22 | Britain 's Sharon Lee also faced Gao and succumbed to two knockdowns , but although she left the hall without a medal , two good wins , including a 20-second victory over Carole Scheid , of the United States , showed that she is capable of making an impact at world level . |
| 23 | But although he sacrifices the transitory for the long-term , the latter are not differently or more solidly grounded ; indeed they are in danger of becoming rigid and brittle if they are not continually being enriched , modified and eroded by local and temporary reactions . |
| 24 | Dr. Zúñiga was warned that the police might seek reprisals against him , but although he informed the authorities of this , novo specific measures of protection were apparently offered to him . |
| 25 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 26 | I hear mutterings from the Conservative Back Benches to the effect that the Minister does return with good deals , but if one asked the British farmer , that is not the message that one would hear . |
| 27 | Polarisation in Israel there certainly is , but if one applies the same broad definition of ‘ moderate ’ and ‘ extremist ’ to the Israelis as one does to the Palestinians , one can not but conclude that precisely the reverse situation prevails among them , that it is their Jibrils and Abu Musas — or religious fundamentalists in the Hamas mould — who hold sway . |
| 28 | It seems obvious enough that ‘ language teachers ’ — the phrase used by foreign language teachers to describe themselves — need to know about ‘ language ’ but if we rephrase the formulation what we in fact have are French teachers who speak French , German teachers who speak German and so on . |
| 29 | But if we had the accommodation downstairs , you we could ea easily have a good sitting room that we never use . |
| 30 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |