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It was discovered--and this should no longer be any cause for wonder--that a sentence containing however could also begin with but . Moreover, but could appear directly in front of nevertheless . But this development reached its zenith with the use of but as a topper conjunction (see the beginning of this sentence); the topper but does not in reality indicate a contradiction, for it always appears at the start of a sentence which is, truth be, in harmony with preceding sentences, but rather it tops the previous statements by pointing unerringly to that which is promised by contradiction, namely illumination.
Then he heard her step through the forest, the sound Of the steps preceding her through the leaves Like the calling card of a doe approaching the water, Trying her footing across newly covered ground.
Before concluding our narrative, we offer a reminder, and an explanation, of the one period in which the government as a whole seemed to be acting in concert to deal with terrorism-the last weeks of December 1999 preceding the millennium.
This error results from the very poor fit to the venous concentration at times preceding the first data point at 10 minutes.
Caregivers answered questions about the patients' ability to independently perform both instrumental and basic activities of daily living that had been attempted in the preceding two weeks.