Example sentences of "but as [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The docks remained busy throughout the long hot summer months , but as winter drew in there was more trouble brewing as the miners went on strike for better pay . |
| 2 | At first he showed some energy , but as recalcitrance persisted on both sides this quickly exhausted itself . |
| 3 | If only one could apply the same tests to people , she thought , and of course in a way one did ; but as life went on this kind of choice came to be a luxury — one took what came one 's way . |
| 4 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 5 | For the rest of the day there were almost continuous air attacks , but as dusk crept over the scene it was discovered that no damage had been done to the LRDG patrol . |
| 6 | At first , the Attorney General did not intend to permit this , but as members indicated on a vote that they preferred to debate the new text , the Attorney General allowed to propose it as follows : |
| 7 | But as Storr demonstrates with the aid of two stunningly beautiful passages from Churchill 's early novel Savrola , the pen was better suited to delineating the bleak impotence he felt at his innermost core . |
| 8 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 9 | But as countries move into much needed economic reform programmes we know that children may be the losers in the very short term and that 's why in the O D A we are concerned with helping governments develop social policies which provide adequate safety net provision for children during this process of adjustment . |
| 10 | They must be seen not as social groups constituted by individuals , but as positions constituted by the conflicting interests which are an integral part of a particular mode of production . |
| 11 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 12 | But as Luke joined with her and experienced the first brief resistance of her untutored flesh she felt the shock run through him . |
| 13 | Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense . |
| 14 | But as Tolkien said of Beowulf , the ‘ large symbolism … does not break through , nor become allegory ’ . |
| 15 | Duane Jackson ( Jeff Bridges ) has survived rocky adolescence and service in Korea to earn big money in the 70s boom , but as Anarene prepares for centennial celebrations , with a replica of ‘ Old Texasville ’ in the town square , he 's saddled with debts of $12 million , a marriage on the rocks and a tearaway elder son with a liking for older women . |
| 16 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 17 | Mars your ruling planet normally endows you with drive , but as Saturn grows nearer your energy level will decrease now how about that ? |
| 18 | But as Hatch stared at Cowley , as the men came close , Cowley could see that there was a more dangerous quality in the man 's cool gaze , and in the cut of his jaw . |
| 19 | The NHS used to fund such officers when patients lived in long-stay hospitals , but as people moved into the community their role was forgotten . |
| 20 | But as time goes by it just gets harder . |
| 21 | But as time went on the situation just got worse and costs started to escalate . |
| 22 | For the first year of Society operation the existing style of ticket was used , but as time went on a superior style was adopted , and these included a range of Member 's tickets as well as Complimentary and Supplementary ones . |
| 23 | At first relations between the PLO outside and the Patriotic Front inside were cordial , but as time went by the PLO leadership became increasingly uneasy about the Patriotic Front taking its own initiatives . |
| 24 | It served the ancients well but as time went by infibulation dropped from regular practice and adolescents resumed theirs . |
| 25 | But as time went by the marriage turned sour . |
| 26 | But as Henry remarked to Elinor as the cortège moved away from Darby 's , the undertaker in the village , a charabanc might have been a more decent way of moving the extraordinarily large number of people who turned out for what Sprott referred to as ‘ the big goodbye ’ for Donald Templeton MD . |
| 27 | Gifford on Honey End rode like a man possessed , but as Foinavon sailed over Valentine 's Brook and the next three fences and made towards the stands the pursuit seemed hopeless . |
| 28 | At first Olivia answers mockingly , in prose , but as Viola warms to the task Olivia comes up to verse , the stronger emotion lifting the medium with it . |
| 29 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 30 | But as police stood outside the pair sped off in the car . |