Example sentences of "but [prep] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month .
2 But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press .
3 His works were regarded as a primary source of overriding significance for the study not merely of his own activity but of any and every aspect of the history of the revolution .
4 But despite this and the fact that Brazil 's President Fernando Collor de Mello strongly supports the concept of the park opposition has been gathering force .
5 But despite this and the sickness of his family , William pressed on with his study of Bengali with a native teacher named Ram Basu .
6 Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success .
7 At the assimilation end of the spectrum of representations of care programming in community care plans , local authorities appear to refer to it formally , signalling their awareness , but with little or no discussion in the care plan of the relevance of care programmes for social services , examples being Croydon and Lambeth .
8 Healey always seems a man at the receiving end , full of great ideas but with little or no room for manoeuvre .
9 Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution .
10 These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility .
11 ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’
12 Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake .
13 But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it .
14 Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars .
15 But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid .
16 But within less than an hour he was back on his farm .
17 For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting !
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