Example sentences of "but [subord] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The side stabilising units do add an extra support feature , but except for that , the Disc adds very little to the shoe . |
| 2 | But except for that small minority who are going to spend a lifetime in academic pursuits , there must come a time when education for the great majority needs to become more vocational , more concerned with professional training ’ . |
| 3 | But although in that house there was eight of us |
| 4 | The practical answer is " do n't calculate the inductance , measure it " , but if for some reason you must do the calculation , the best approach may be to abandon the definition of eqn ( 4.33 ) in favour of the equivalent energetic definition ( see Section 4.12 ) |
| 5 | Your Insurance Certificate will be forwarded to you as soon as the Home Improvement Loan arrangements have been completed but if for any reason , you then decide you do not want the cover , you may return your Certificate within 14 days for cancellation without any charge . |
| 6 | ( Not many calls exceed twenty seconds , but if for any reason you should need to transmit for longer , you can override the cut-out by simply releasing the PTT for an instant , then pressing it again ) |
| 7 | Obviously , this can be avoided if the Report is available at an earlier stage but if for any reason difficulties were anticipated , one method of avoiding the production of a producible Report would be to ask the expert to give his opinion verbally , to be followed up in writing if asked . |
| 8 | Preference shares usually carry a right to fixed dividends , but if on any dividend payment date Newco has insufficient distributable profits to meet these , they are rolled forward so that the shares may accrue a right to a premium , representing rolled-up dividends , payable on redemption . |
| 9 | It can be seen that in the event of specific goods perishing , the contract may be avoided by section 7 but if in any other case the contract becomes impossible or illegal to perform , it will be frustrated at common law . |
| 10 | but if in any reason you know you wanted to come and have a discussion or there was a problem or |
| 11 | But if in this , why not elsewhere . |
| 12 | But if by some extraordinary chance you should one day wander into a forest and catch a glimpse of a Minpin , then hold your breath and thank your lucky stars because up to now , so far as I know , no one excepting Little Billy has ever seen one . |
| 13 | But if by some freak mischance I do get a bit stuck , you know what I do ? ’ |
| 14 | But if by any chance it were ever possible to locate this ‘ vernacular ’ in the usage of an informant , we would have no criteria for demonstrating that we had located it , any more than we could locate ‘ the dialect ’ in the speech of a single informant . |
| 15 | But if by any chance the Bairns ' fortunes begin to falter under his chairmanship , and their stalwart position as second-bottom in the league is challenged , then he should not be surprised to hear from the terraces the menacing sound of the fans as they give tongue : ‘ Christie , Christie , Christie — out , out , out ! ’ |
| 16 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |
| 17 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 18 | As an actor Brando is a great politician , but because of that he is destructive to those he works with . |
| 19 | But because of that you 've got to watch it 's effect on the kidneys , on the body biochemistry . |
| 20 | Of course , like the sentences about the knight , the dragon , and the pineapple , they might form part of a discourse , and if we stretch our imaginations we could come up with a situation in which they do ; but this will not be by virtue of the words so and she , but because of some other information about the context . |
| 21 | That was the last , as I thought , of my Criterion obituary ; but because of some slightly disparaging remarks I made in it of Montgomery Belgion , a Criterion contributor , I incurred the bitter enmity of that enigmatic figure , which exploded years later when he reviewed my book on Simone Weil . |
| 22 | Performance was considered an improvement over the Southampton , and on a par with the three-engined Southampton Mk X , but because of several structural faults the Severn did not enter production . |
| 23 | He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees . |
| 24 | Doctors ' cooperatives are being formed which seek to prevent exploitation of doctors , but because of this care may be more expensive than that provided by group medical plans . |
| 25 | The echo comes from the whole disc , but because of this uniqueness the echo can be unscrambled to reveal the contributions to it from every pair of patches of planetary surface exemplified by X and Y. |
| 26 | But since on this occasion the words were dictated to the child it is more likely to be the child 's efforts to repeat the sound to herself and to write down her idea of a phonic equivalent . |
| 27 | But since in all of these examples the relevant traits act only as dispositions , the actual outcome in any given individual will depend on the interaction between vulnerability and other factors that trigger illness , leading to symptoms . |
| 28 | Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart . |
| 29 | But when on several occasions there is the right correlation of the child 's behaviour with the child 's use of the term , we conclude that he has mastered its correct use . |
| 30 | But as with all his writings , he contributed phrases rather than ideas , relying on Mao for the latter . |