Example sentences of "but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the intransigent majority of Cabinet members would not be moved by threats . |
| 2 | Maybe not every mid-Western male metalhead ran a cable access show from the basement of their mom 's suburban home , but the shaggy hairdos , the caps , the plaid shirts open over logo-sporting T-shirts were all too familiar : every home had one . |
| 3 | But the molecular weights were enormous , implying molecules which contained thousands of atoms , much too complicated for any details of their structure to be worked out . |
| 4 | FOR 25 years , HLA associations with diseases have provided clues to pathogenesis but the molecular basis of these associations has not been defined . |
| 5 | WHEN the mammalian proto-oncogene bcl-2 is overexpressed it can protect various types of cells both from normal and from experimentally induced apoptosis , but the molecular mechanisms involved are unknown . |
| 6 | Scale 2 is structured to manifest the nature of this likeness ; Mixed Life is less ambitious , but the moderate clarity of its argument is based on , and goes some way towards revealing , an understanding of the structure of personality as the means by which God is conceived in time . |
| 7 | Movement helps dissipate the unpleasant feeling of anxiety , but the stabled horse has little opportunity for movement . |
| 8 | The French and Italians have always have always been besotted with the English country look ; for them it is not only the quintessence of weekend style , but also standard office kit for all but the stuffiest or circles . |
| 9 | But the beleaguered Everton manager would have paid £1 million just for that precious late goal . |
| 10 | But the beleaguered taxpayer has just over 12 months to prepare for the changes — by which time the Chancellor hopes an improved economy will soften the blow . |
| 11 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 12 | But the amazing looks are only half of the story ; National made these instruments specifically to be the loudest acoustic guitars in existence — and they succeeded . |
| 13 | A spokesman from the firm responsible said : ‘ Some of the designs might be a bit near the knuckle , but the bonking snowmen have been so sucessful that we 've commissioned even more variations for next year . ’ |
| 14 | But the swirling breeze was at the hunters ' backs , and the big bull suddenly lifted his muzzle to scent in their direction , and a moment later the whole herd was running towards the shelter of the trees . |
| 15 | The long Bengali shopping corridor in which she presented her collection was a photogenic backdrop , but the relentless Seventies muzak combined with a final bellow from Barry White was annoying . |
| 16 | But the kindly bishop Ascanio Piccolomini nursed him back to mental health and at length the authorities in Rome allowed him to go home , though still under house arrest . |
| 17 | But the bloody Tower of London … |
| 18 | But the bloody vendetta will reach far beyond Sicily ; to a manor house in the English countryside , and to the gangster-run Chicago of the 1920's . |
| 19 | The paradox arises partly because the emotional force derives from external oppression , not internal unities , but the external oppression seems to identify an internal essence , the junction point between what is imagined as a national group and personal integrity , self-respect . |
| 20 | What , what 'd happened is that there 's a concrete span right at the back , and they 've the inner course off it , but the external bit built off the door frame . |
| 21 | But the external costs of air traffic noise to those living and working around airports are not included in the price of air tickets . |
| 22 | There is one large blunt tricuspid or occasionally heart-shaped apical papilla flanked on either side by 3 oral papillae ; the proximal papillae are pointed spiniform but the distalmost is large and block-like nearly opercular . |
| 23 | For his part he noticed , not the dress but the slender-waisted , full-breasted figure it adorned ; the pretty face and the abundant dark hair which the bonnet framed ; the large amber eyes which met his as he helped her in . |
| 24 | He also grew increasingly accessible , happy to respond to all but the silliest questions , even if some would have preferred an aloofness closer to Mr Kinnock 's campaign style . |
| 25 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 26 | Death after 12/11/74 attracts estate duty at CTT rates ; if the determination or disposal was before 13/11/74 any agricultural relief is as for estate duty , there is no timber relief but the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , can apply ; and the duty on any qualifying property may be paid by instalments by the persons accountable for it under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 . |
| 27 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 28 | But the seminal event was Sir Peter 's decison to publish A Force for Change , the survey carried out last year by the Wolff Olins consultancy . |
| 29 | But the yobby sidekick he played was a kind of retread of his earlier roles , a dead-end kid that signalled the career cul-de-sac he was facing . |
| 30 | They are not criminals , but the innocent victims of men . |