Example sentences of "[vb pp] but for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 2 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 3 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |
| 4 | But curiously enough the regret she felt , not for anything she had done but for what she had n't , quite put an end to the old wearisome illusion of prosecution and trial . |
| 5 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 6 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 7 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |
| 8 | On-board summation of results from HUMS may be provided but for more detailed analysis of results the data/information needs to be transmitted to a ground station computer at the aircraft 's base . |
| 9 | This may improve as arrangements for care management are gradually introduced but for the foreseeable future plans will have to reflect a realistic view of available resources . |
| 10 | Christmas will be spoilt not just for those involved but for their friends and relatives . |
| 11 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 12 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 13 | The countryside is deserted but for groups of distant yurts which resemble pickable mushrooms . |
| 14 | A low Mughal gateway led on into a wet and glistening flagstone courtyard ; it was deserted but for a solitary pupil running late towards his class . |
| 15 | There were now far fewer people about : many streets were deserted but for groups of tethered goats fattening for their slaughter on Idul-Zuha . |
| 16 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 17 | Frost-hardening may affect some tissues but not others ; it is not unusual for well-established tissues to be hardened but for buds and growing shoots to be nipped by frost . |
| 18 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 19 | the number of module names which have been reserved but for which modules do not yet exist in the database . |