Example sentences of "but this [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aronson sees Sartre 's turn to the cause of resisting colonial oppression as an act of ‘ self-flagellation ’ and a product of politico-theoretical despair , but this passes over the historical and political context in which Sartre , and Les Temps modernes , played a leading role in the opposition to the Algerian war . |
| 2 | To start with , there are more energy levels : for a d 3 system , for instance , the ground free ion term is usually 4 F , but this splits in an octahedral field into three levels — 4 A 2g , 4 T 2g and 4 T 1g , just as the f orbitals split into a 2u , t 2u and t 1u sets in an octahedral field . |
| 3 | Students may find themselves performing in final productions over two full terms , which means they have the opportunity to play twice as many parts , but this depends on the school 's policy and how they think you have progressed . |
| 4 | You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning . |
| 5 | I could put some in the World wide web — I think that you can get them across that way , but this depends on people having access to the web — ok if you 're on a unix box , tough s*** if not . |
| 6 | The preference is to end with an official caution or the less serious warning , but this depends upon ‘ whether it is a first-time offender ; the seriousness of the crime involved ; the attitudes of both parents and juvenile ; has reparation been made ? |
| 7 | Farmers may be able to pass on low prices in the form of low wages but this depends upon the conditions prevailing in the labour market in their area . |
| 8 | But this depends in practice , even though not in theory , on the current aggregate value of property transactions ; and the conveyancing monopoly is under attack from non-solicitor conveyancing firms ( who use a solicitor only to draw up the conveyance itself ) . |
| 9 | THE ENGLAND captain 's name has appeared under several titles , but this happens to be the first full-length biography . |
| 10 | The Westphalian A and B Coal Measures section has a maximum thickness of about 1500 m but this reduces towards the Massif , due to onlap to the Carboniferous Limestone surface and truncation beneath the Symon Unconformity . |
| 11 | But this occurs in Crime and Punishment 's Epilogue . |
| 12 | But this goes against all trade union traditions : invoking laws and the courts has been seen as an infringement of worker 's freedom of action and power of collective bargaining . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the speaker N uses a Creole obscenity in line 8 , but goes on to make an ironic comment on Brenda 's request in London English ; but this overlaps with Brenda 's next turn , which this time is an ironic comment on N 's behaviour , and is in Creole . |
| 14 | But this calls into question whether the potential of mentally handicapped people is fully appreciated by the people who are making those crucial life or death decisions . |
| 15 | But this follows from the associativity of ρ , and the proof is complete . |
| 16 | Initially the capacitor voltage is and therefore the phase voltage is , but this decays to as the capacitor discharges . |
| 17 | The dragonflies beat their two wings synchronously , but this makes for very considerable physiological complexities . |
| 18 | DataEase 's menus are n't overlaid GUI-style and do n't drop down , but this makes for a simple approach to building and using your database . |
| 19 | One of the roots of the problem was the sharp cutback of financial resources provided by the centre , but this needs to be seen alongside the emergence of strongly ideological politics at both central and local levels . |
| 20 | As yet there is no morphological features which can distinguish them as separate species , except perhaps the features mentioned above but this needs to be investigated . |
| 21 | The Royal College 's report urges families to become involved , but this conflicts with the client 's right to confidentiality . |
| 22 | But this works in the book 's favour . |
| 23 | Occasionally , a referendum imposes direct constraints on the actions of the representatives , but this tends to be the exception in most countries . |
| 24 | But this brings with it the potential for change , allowing them to become agents instead of passively relying on Oa . |
| 25 | Safety legislation requires the disclosure of hazardous contents but this seems to be ignored as well . |
| 26 | ( Surprisingly , Devereux found that this was the only area of active faults that did not have a marked number of UFO reports , but this seems to be a result of his patchy methods of obtaining data . ) |
| 27 | Some say Sitha is a corruption of Etheldreds , sister to the Abbess Hilda of Whitby , but this seems to be wishful thinking . |
| 28 | One may agree that the expression which Firth dismisses as nonsense has a curious ring to it but this seems to be due to the choice of lexis which results in a particularly inconsequential proposition which it is hard to imagine ever figuring in actual use . |
| 29 | Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ I thought we would have got a few back after our last few results , but this seems to be par for the course lately . ’ |
| 30 | But this seems to be an extremely dangerous conclusion from the point of view of a leftist interpretation . |