Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 2 | It 's not that he ceases altogether to be the eternal student , but that he becomes reshaped and misshaped into an aberration . |
| 3 | Creggan might have stayed longer but that he became aware of a man silhouetted on the skyline . |
| 4 | It does n't follow that the cap/name link disappears but that it becomes so to say transpersonalized . |
| 5 | But once it became clear that most Algerians supported Iraq , the FIS quickly did the same . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but once you become known sales will increase , ’ said the publisher . |
| 7 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 8 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 9 | But if they become a normal event , all papers prepared for Council will have to be written with a much wider audience in mind . |
| 10 | ‘ But if they become part of the post-1994 set up , clever non-producers will join the company that pays the best price — and could jump from company to company on a regular basis , ’ forecast Nestle 's chief milk buyer , John Ross . |
| 11 | They had always attached importance to keeping level with India , and now they renewed the pressure , It was explained that the Dominion status option was open to them , with the same timetable as India ; but if they became a republic this would require more contentious legislation and the negotiation of an Anglo-Burmese Treaty . |
| 12 | But if he becomes a nuisance , William , ’ he added , ‘ you bang on the floor and I 'll pick him up . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I accept the recommendation that the licences should not be revoked , but if it becomes public knowledge that the tools are to be used to make munitions , deliveries would have to stop at once . |
| 14 | Provided all the shares are owned by a government agency or by a financial institution , a joint-stock company may become a one-man company , but if it becomes insolvent the sole shareholder is liable for all the company 's indebtedness . |
| 15 | But if it becomes too long there is a danger that the listener will forget the original theme , concentrating on the third sentence because it assumes too much importance . |
| 16 | I certainly do n't want to have to do that , but if it becomes a problem I will : I 'm not going to put to the continuation of the list here in jeopardy ( or for that matter my good name , such as it is ! ) |
| 17 | In time a limit may be reached , not because of the depth of the pit but because it becomes too wide and approaches land that must not be disturbed . |
| 18 | But while he becomes an instant hero , he is also the instant target of terrorist Sean Miller ( Sean Bean ) whose baby brother has been killed in the attack . |
| 19 | As expounded in Chapter One , mankind 's need for a rational definition of ‘ god ’ is obvious , but before it becomes possible to produce an interpretation with any real meaning , there are two assumptions , already enlarged upon in this book , which must be accepted as fact . |
| 20 | He knew how to get a product that was decent and rather unexciting on to the shop floor , but when it became necessary to add more to that product and to innovate in design terms , he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 21 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 22 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 23 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 24 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
| 25 | General practitioners were enticed to join the fundholding scheme by the promise of new freedoms in their gatekeeping role , but when it became apparent that their potential to destabilise the system threatened other aspects of the reforms regional health authorities were told to ‘ manage the market ’ to ensure that the stability of hospitals was not threatened . |
| 26 | Hanne and Jens always hoped that Svend would join them on their farm , but when it became clear that his interests lay in constructional engineering they gladly supported him , despite their disappointment and the sacrifices they had to make . ’ |
| 27 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 28 | Anger is ignored as much as possible , as with angry children , but when it becomes too manifest , people physically remove themselves , just as they flee from outsiders . |
| 29 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |
| 30 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |