Example sentences of "but [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Middlesbrough and the North-East is not an area that appeals to the London-based agent , despite the opportunity to expand its regional representation . |
| 2 | But Woodstock and the sunshine hippies broke through the clouds of small-town standards , and Jay scoured the Oxfam shop for silk and satin and velvet . |
| 3 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 4 | In earlier times the judge would rule on the sufficiency of the provocation , and the result of this was rather narrow and legalistic categories of sufficiency ( e.g. violence or finding a spouse in adultery were enough , but words or a confession of adultery were not ) . |
| 5 | Fleury and Harry were becoming dreadfully hungry , too , but Lucy and the O'Hanlons must come first , of course . |
| 6 | The 1987 election returned Tim Devlin to the Commons with a 35pc share of the vote but Labour and the Liberal Democrats put up a very strong showing with 33.7pc and 31.3pc respectively . |
| 7 | Rain had never heard of it but Wickham and the rotund Italian who owned it were familiar . |
| 8 | Labour supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
| 9 | The Labour Pary supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor-racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
| 10 | But Maastricht and the Balkans are taking a toll . |
| 11 | The Gnomes thought this very funny and Caspar laughed loudly but Inchbad and the giants missed the point . |
| 12 | According to Paskevich , whom he put in as Viceroy ( the Grand Duke Konstantin having died , like Dibich , of cholera ) , " The Poles … experienced not vengeance and retribution but assistance and the consignment of their guilt to oblivion " . |
| 13 | But Medius and the anti-Spartan coalition in the Corinthian War of the 390s checked him ( cp. chapter 14 for these events , specifically p. 187 for the expulsion of Spartan influence from Pharsalos , a Spartan garrison-point in the early 390s ) . |
| 14 | In old age , there may be the will to retain independence in this AL but circumstances and the effects of the process of ageing may force an elderly person to be dependent on others , at least to some degree . |
| 15 | But Russia and the US have just agreed to cut back their nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , reducing the number of warheads from 20,000 to between 6,000 and 7,000 . |
| 16 | But retirement and the retirement pension , while certainly providing subsistence incomes to prevent destitution , have created and perpetuated universal enforced unemployment among older people and the lowered incomes that go with it . |
| 17 | Second on the grid , second in the race , but Prost and the Ferrari were no match for Senna . |
| 18 | Present-day streamfloods from isolated uplands follow the upper parts of formerly much more integrated and lengthy drainage systems , but deposition as the volume of water is reduced by percolation and evaporation chokes the middle and lower parts of the valleys , which may be converted to dune fields . |
| 19 | Price cutting had maintained volumes at the expense of margins , but reservations since the start of the year had been encouraging , he said . |
| 20 | No tickets have ever been issued in the Railway 's eight-years-long official existence but Doug and the three compatriots that run the service shake a bucket at passengers for donations , and , throughout the 1980's , have raised thousands of pounds for this most worthy of causes . |
| 21 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 22 | Agriculture in the early Anglo-Saxon period appears to have been designed to satisfy immediate , local needs , but evidence that the situation was changing towards the end of the period can be found by comparing the food resources with those of the earliest post-Roman urban and commercial centres in England ; Hamwic , the middle Saxon port of Southampton , and Ipswich have both received large-scale excavation . |
| 23 | But literacy and the written word do have a part to play . |
| 24 | But perceptions that the Alliance was running second in the polls collapsed in the second week ; and voters ' assessment of Alliance chances of winning a majority or even holding the balance of power dropped sharply in the third week ; while television 's sharp switch to focus on the two-Party Labour versus Conservative battle occurred in the fourth week . |
| 25 | The contributing factor to the abandonment of the parish coffin in the seventeenth century was not the new and innovative trade of funeral furnishing — though that did have a profound effect on coffin types — but pestilence and the plague . |
| 26 | The U S navy says the names of the missing crew members wo n't be released until the search operation is complete , but stress that the helicopters were not involved in any hostile action . |
| 27 | 22 men crammed into a small wooden hut with nothing , but panels and a curtain separating them from the rest . |
| 28 | Like other Polish Jews , he was arrested in October 1938 , but Adele and the four children ended up at Zbonszyn . |
| 29 | Overall , the number of postive tests was down across the region , but campaigners and the police say the figures are still not low enough . |
| 30 | There were questions that she was frantic to put to him — about Elise , about Rob — but discretion and a sense of loyalty forbade them . |