Example sentences of "but they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westminster Hospital , say that Andrew , on of their patients , needs to be admitted but they are unable to find transport as no ambulance is available . |
| 2 | For many a stay in hospital is in appropriate but they are often too weak or ill to care for themselves properly . |
| 3 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 4 | These qualities have always been present in the metaphors and similes of poetry but they have been less frequent in painting , which in the past was largely concerned with reproducing external reality , with decoration , or , as in the more advanced movements of recent years , with the composition of color and line into formal design . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 6 | Differences exist between the media of tempera and oil , or oil and acrylic , but they do not have the importance of contrasts in other material processes . |
| 7 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 8 | In contrast , the portrait of Ahmed has none of the disdain which could be observed in the writer 's article about Michael X. Ahmed 's bluffs are called , but they are understood , and carefully related to his earlier life on the island . |
| 9 | Authors are not supposed to avenge themselves in their writings , but they do , and if they were to be prevented , there would be far fewer books . |
| 10 | But they 're the same . |
| 11 | Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father . |
| 12 | The homicides and postmortems in the book permit the new religion of science to exercise its power : but they also occasion the necrophile broodings which exude from Dyer . |
| 13 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 14 | But they can be good at conveying what it was like for them to be there , and to be writing it down . |
| 15 | Dualistic explanations are moving , and intriguing : but they are often thought , even by proponents , to be far-fetched , fictional , theoretical , counter-intuitive . |
| 16 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 17 | But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about . |
| 18 | Not that I would have attempted to scale the academic heights of an Oxford or a Cambridge , of course , but they do do some very stimulating courses at the Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 19 | But they are great just the same when the great things do not come along . |
| 20 | But they do n't want more money , ; it 's like me , is n't it ? |
| 21 | Your agent will want you to be working , but they can not perform miracles for you . |
| 22 | Small , little-known groups do n't generally muster a large audience , of course , but they are often a good way of commanding interest from future employers . |
| 23 | Southern protestants do not appear to be particularly oppressed by the state ( White 1975 : 169 ) , but they would clearly change aspects of the constitution and legislation if they were in a position to do so . |
| 24 | But they did and still do remain the authoritative conscience of the nation . |
| 25 | Admittedly , the Christian Brothers ' schools were open to all , but they tended to be academically inclined in curriculum and ethos . |
| 26 | But they will be there for long enough , long enough . |
| 27 | But they come from different worlds . |
| 28 | Not only did the idea come too late , he wrote , not only did the discipline come too late , not only did the resolution of individual problems come too late , but they came so late that I was not even aware of their lateness , and so they were doubly false and doubly useless and doubly meaningless . |
| 29 | Electric pumps , either of the simple free flow type or the metered pump which delivers exact half pints , are a perfectly acceptable method of serving cask beer but they can be confused with the pressurised founts used to dispense keg beers . |
| 30 | Assistant head of the hotel school , John Staples , adds : ‘ They wo n't be experts but they 'll have a good understanding of what it 's all about . |