Example sentences of "[vb pp] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might not have won but a tie is a whole lot better than defeat . " |
| 2 | Surveys of technical and marketing journals and reports will be included but a major contribution will be derived from interviews with personnel from participating firms . |
| 3 | He had been discharged but a year later there had been little change in his weight . |
| 4 | The easy-come , easy-go attitude most obviously applies to Nic Dalton , still introverted but a bit more cheerful this morning . |
| 5 | It was however , considered but a matter of perseverance , for it was well exposed on the surface above . |
| 6 | No single treatment exists for the range of soiling that is presented but a programme that uses a number of different approaches can be effective ( Hersov 1985 ) . |
| 7 | This offer has been gratefully accepted but a suitable site for the van will eventually have to be found . |
| 8 | I , of course , at the sharp end felt but a slight tremor and my concern was with the loss of lateral control and my instrument panel disintegrating in front of me . |
| 9 | As the Japanese are at present constituted , accidents to life and limb would most certainly occur if trains made but a brief halt to entrain passengers . |
| 10 | Considerable progress has been made but a number of fundamental issues are still with us . |
| 11 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |
| 12 | No weapons were to be seen but a good many shepherds ' crooks and plenty of rough sticks cut from birch or alder . |
| 13 | Have you seen but a white lily grow before rude hands had touched it ? |
| 14 | Beyond the porch steps nothing could be seen but a cream-coloured , whirling fog of dust . |
| 15 | The individual 's intentions and objectives are correct and the proper course of action is selected but a slip occurs in performing it . |
| 16 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , The Duke was not preserved but a model of it can be seen in Troon Town Hall . |
| 18 | ‘ But then , ’ he excused , ‘ I 've had but a short while to suspect — when you were prepared to leave without fulfilling your agreement to your sister whom you love so much — that you might , dare I believe it , be running from me because you loved me and had been badly hurt by my ‘ clinging ’ accusation . ’ |
| 19 | Luckily no one drowned but a few people got very wet ! |
| 20 | The systems of compensatory allowances and investment aids , and particular components of them , are major elements in determining whether or not agricultural changes damaging to the natural environment of the uplands have occurred but a range of other , sometimes unquantifiable factors ( e. g. land ownership patterns , hunting/shooting , traditions of husbandry and land management ) are also more or less relevant . |
| 21 | The mines have long been closed but a relic survives in a blacksmith 's forge behind the crumbled walls . |
| 22 | The creation of a joint Cuban-CARICOM commission to analyse co-operation programmes was also approved but a decision on Cuba 's request for observer status in some CARICOM organizations was postponed . |
| 23 | It had flown but a few hours in his ownership , and it might be available for a feature in Pilot . |
| 24 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 25 | The original trust deed can not be traced but a more recent trust deed dated 1 October 1984 provides that the trustees are to hold the trust property , comprising the premises of the school and any additional site that may be acquired , for the purposes of a Roman Catholic Voluntary Aided School to be conducted in accordance with the Education Acts . |
| 26 | Its large terraced gardens formed but a part of six and a half acres of land enclosed on three sides by high walls and locked gates . |
| 27 | A prime minister who sought to push an unpopular agreement through was assassinated but a religious nationalist in March 1951 . |
| 28 | The BAeSema Ltd joint venture of British Aerospace Plc and Sema Group Plc won a UK Ministry of Defence contract to equip five frigates with command systems : no price was given but a source told Reuter that it was about £30m . |
| 29 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 30 | The case was subsequently dismissed but a rumour arose that Andrew Mellon had done a deal with Roosevelt , offering to build a gallery and give his collection to the nation if the administration would stop hounding him . ] |