Example sentences of "but we [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we know that three-generational households were in fact as rare in the past as they are today . |
| 2 | ‘ They may be sympathetic and may want to try to help , but we know that they treat the symptoms and not the cause . ’ |
| 3 | In an ideal world , such fencing would be entirely of natural hedgerows and ditches , but we know that it is inevitable that artificial fencing will provide the bulk of such restraint for cattle and for sheep . |
| 4 | Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace . |
| 5 | The eternal significance of our performance is difficult , if not impossible , to determine this side of glory , but we know that there is a correlation between that significance and our commitment to God and his purposes . |
| 6 | Obviously we 're unable to ensure that none of you omitted cheat by not closing your eyes properly , but we know that if you do sneak a cheeky peek as the pen descends you 'll never be able to watch Bullseye again without suffering heart-rending pangs of guilt . |
| 7 | It is uncertain exactly what contributions Brother Oudart made to the development of the Champagne method but we know that he also used corks from Spain and it has been suggested that he was the first to use a liqueur de tirage . |
| 8 | But we know that buying a carpet is n't something you do every day , and some general advice before you shop might be welcome . |
| 9 | Of course , there will be variations in the level of functioning as there are with normally hearing children , but we know that oral language can be their root of thought and communication . |
| 10 | But we know that the gill lamellae in a lamprey develop medially to the supporting skeleton , whereas the gills of a gnathostome develop laterally to the skeleton . |
| 11 | We do not know just how much cohesion is necessary for a society to exist , but we know that some cohesion is necessary . |
| 12 | The attitudes of the more distant tribes are difficult to assess , but we know that the Dubunnic contingent immediately surrendered to Plautius . |
| 13 | The origins and early history of this institution are very obscure , but we know that in 1273 Edward initiated the Recognicionesjeodorum ‘ in curie Vasconie ’ , which had assembled at St Sever . |
| 14 | There is no direct evidence for Angoulême but we know that in 1199 Count Ademar was still trying to recover lands which had once been held by his father Count William and 1176–7 is the most likely date for their confiscation by the Angevins . |
| 15 | But we know that at least 23 per cent of our sample never married , and carried on working till retirement . |
| 16 | In many such cases the evidence created by the satisfaction of the criteria is defeated by other evidence ; for example , we see him wincing and holding his stomach , but we know that he has done this at this point in the play every evening this week , and hence we are not justified in believing here what similar evidence of the same sort would perfectly justify elsewhere . |
| 17 | ’ ’ But we know that any alternate system is inevitably worse , much worse ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There 's something appealing about the idea , ’ admits Miss Kier , ‘ but we know that we 'd be censored . |
| 19 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 20 | But we know that we 'd make a frightful hash of it . |
| 21 | ‘ Beloved , we are now the sons of God , and it does not yet appear what we shall be , but we know that when he appears we shall be like him , for we shall see him as he is . |
| 22 | But we know that the real checks would come when we left . |
| 23 | Mr. Hughes : Had that happened , it would have been fine , but we know that it did not happen in the vast majority of cases . |
| 24 | Whether that was due to incompetence or corruption , we shall never know , but we know that public assets were sold off cheaply to be sold on dear . |
| 25 | So it 's excellent here , but we know that it 's at a variable , and I think the problem that you were probably facing is how do you secure a a better rate than that . |
| 26 | But we know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall him as he his . |
| 27 | Are we a children of God and that we will be as not yet been made known but we but we know that when he appears we shall be like him . |
| 28 | But we know that you 've stolen some uranium — that 's why you were so radioactive . |
| 29 | But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies . |
| 30 | But we know that the last film demanded must yield consumers exactly P l pounds worth of utility ; otherwise they would buy more films or less films than the quantity Q 1 . |