Example sentences of "but with [art] " in BNC.

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31 Ray continued to wrestle with the wheel , but with no success whatever .
32 I 've written to the makers for info , but with no reply .
33 She felt rigid like a telegraph pole , communicating perfectly , functioning flawlessly , but with no heart , no soul .
34 But with no foundation up front , the fullback Jim Staples ( the bravest of the brave ) , flanker Mick Fitzgibbon and fly-half Peter Russell all departing injured , the Irish were gradually taken apart .
35 His name , said Nicky , was Patrick Meehan , and he was a well-known and rather incompetent safe-blower , but with no record of violence .
36 One of them , an ageing villain named Alfred Mathews , was subsequently found and arrested , and in exchange for not being prosecuted , agreed to turn Queen 's evidence and name his accomplices : David Cooper , Michael McMahon and Patrick Murphy , all petty thieves from the East End but with no record of violence .
37 The constable stayed with John Daubney for the rest of his shift and the signalman appreciated his company , but with no sign of the errant beasts and although both men peered regularly into the darkness and even went down to the lineside and checked , nothing was to be seen .
38 The style and reporting of such excavations changed little , with a plan accompanied by descriptions and drawings of cremation urns at a small scale , but with no details of the ‘ grave ’ or the disposition of the contents .
39 Brave Nula scoured the market for the villain — but with no luck .
40 The implicit assumption here is that it may be best to leave nuclear weapons in a partial legal limbo , with an extremely strong presumption against the legality of their use , but with no formal and explicit rules turning this presumption into treaty language and adding detail to it .
41 The other two players were both club men , Glenn Brill , a Silverdale forward with a brief North Harbour record , and Nigel Ward , a high-scoring loose forward with Silverdale and then Northcote in recent times , but with no real chance of becoming a regular North Harbour player .
42 So Stewart opted instead for Duncan Robertson , a very talented five-eighths and Otago team-mate of Mains , but with no major experience in the specialist roll of fullback .
43 Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow .
44 In short , the British strategy was for a free trade area in industrial goods , but with no external tariff surrounding the free trade area .
45 The aerodrome crisis is the most serious situation facing all of us in aviation , whether operators , pilots or spectators ; but with no Government policy and a Civil Aviation Authority whose officers are not allowed to offer support , the futures of our airfields must be fought by the people who are most affected .
46 Someone is doubtless fiftieth in line , and still a potential monarch , but with no supermarkets to open or ships to name , the rights have run out and the potential succession will be little more than a talking point .
47 Henri van Effenterre ( 1983 ) has tried valiantly to reconstruct Mallia 's economic pattern , but with no conclusive results .
48 The competent , professional teacher , keen on his job , but with no wider political aims .
49 As we have already seen by juxtaposing Sonnets 35 and 70 , after we have read a poem in which the attempt at exculpation is exploded by the Poet , either by irony or by direct criticism , when we subsequently read one in which the exculpation is made again but with no recoil on itself , then the second poem seems hollow .
50 To attract those users who might otherwise be waylaid by clone vendors with their own Sparc 10 equivalents out soon , Mitsui 's sales director David Wallis promises an upgrade which could save the user up to $10,000 — but with no details of what it will actually cost them .
51 Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage .
52 Slightly raised intraocular pressures were controlled with timolol 0.25% twice daily but with no improvement in acuity , which by March 1992 had deteriorated to 6/36 right and 6/60 left .
53 Patrick Faigenbaum , exhibiting at the Crousel-Robelin-Bama until 30 May , has changed his subject matter , but with no loss of intensity : his portraits of Italian aristocrats have given way to photographs of the Wailing Wall , taken during a recent visit to Jerusalem .
54 In recent seasons the Hondas have rarely lacked the speed to destroy their rivals on the straights but with no Yamahas to beat this season , the battle for the championship will almost certainly be an all Honda battle .
55 Simultaneously with the AID and AIH , the Forts were trying to adopt , but with no great success , and eventually they turned to the US , which has a more relaxed attitude to age .
56 I 've had men go through the registers but with no success .
57 Instead a cosmetic ‘ Declaration on Liberated Europe ’ was issued at Yalta , restating the Atlantic Charter principles of independence and sovereignty , but with no means to enforce these high-sounding ideals .
58 When we see Grandcourt at breakfast there with Mr Lush , the scene is suggestively rendered as a ‘ still-life ’ , artfully composed but with no vital principle , the room ‘ seeming the stiller for its sober antiquated elegance , as if it kept a conscious , well-bred silence ’ .
59 With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta .
60 Undoubtedly the people left behind can experience immense dislocation , amounting in extreme cases to complete social and economic dereliction , but with no economic base to support a larger rural population , conditions would have been worse if those who moved to the towns had chosen to remain in the countryside .
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