Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the reserviour was built it has become an important tourist and recreational centre but now none of the businesses can be sure they have a future . |
| 2 | Alan stared at the noticeboard on the opposite wall , pretending to read something but seeing nothing but a blur of the leaflets , notes , scraps of ribbon and withered buttonholes which Lucy had pegged up there . |
| 3 | Then , by pure chance — but seeing it as an act of providence — she had heard Lin Foh call down for an early supper , for him and his CI5 guardian . |
| 4 | But if ‘ transcendence ’ means not that God is physically distant from the world , but that none of the characteristics of finite human life , like location , duration and change , applies to Him , then it is at least not an obvious contradiction to call Him both ‘ transcendent ’ and ‘ immanent ’ . |
| 5 | The way we know at all as human beings means not only that none of us knows everything but that none of us knows absolutely why we know anything . |
| 6 | The industrial tribunal found that the reason for the dismissals was that the managing director was strongly anti-union but that none of the four could show that the reason for his dismissal was his own union membership or activities . |
| 7 | but it does highlight a need and I 'm not going to tread on the Treasurer 's toes in this instant but certainly that will add to the financial burden of running the Association but if its to increasing its lobbying power and authority over those in positions of influence , then above all we do need a very large membership . |
| 8 | That , of course is that , that of course is the the problem of national curriculum it 's your interpretation of of the national curriculum and there is I mean , if Judith says a child is level three , I would accept that but if somebody from Spring Garden said this child is level five , I 'm certainly not going to accept that without evidence that I have ! |
| 9 | Granted not everyone has a PC to use it on , but if someone in the family does use one , I thoroughly recommend purchasing this software . |
| 10 | But if someone in the past was capable of inventing it , why can not other people be inventing it now ? |
| 11 | But if you for example you 're born on the sixteenth of the month then that 's generally when it would be paid on the sixteenth . |
| 12 | In the UK this is fine , but if anyone from outside the UK is reading this , be careful you get the spirit that does not contain water . |
| 13 | You see the individual patient 's dilemma , we 've got no problem with the loner who comes for individual psychoanalysis they have been on their own th there 's no problem there , but but what about the group analytic situation ? |
| 14 | But but something about yeah . |
| 15 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 16 | But since none of that applies to you , you will know what I mean and probably share my fondness for Munro window-shopping . |
| 17 | It made I mad but whether anything like that , you know . |
| 18 | Delahoussaye continued : ‘ Racing is so competitive when you are out there on the track , but when something like this happens you know it could be you next time . |
| 19 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 20 | More and more it tended to be regarded not merely as a useful political device but as something with a moral value and justification of its own . |
| 21 | It matters not ; within a few years and many fast and furious films later , he was being heralded not as the king of exploitation but as something of a genius , to which description he again did not object . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , the active members of the African Institution saw themselves not simply as a successful pressure group but as something like an unofficial arm of government . |
| 23 | Certainly he saw the Pinkie campaign not only as a military endeavour , but as something in the nature of a religious crusade ; Scotland would be snatched not just from alliance with France , but from the yoke of Rome . |
| 24 | Largely as a result of Wedd 's enthusiasm , I found myself becoming irresistibly attracted to the Scots pine — the solitary tree as well as the clump — not just as a potential ley mark point , but as something in its own right , I was not alone : legend seems to confirm the special nature of the pine . |
| 25 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |