Example sentences of "but [prep] a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will deal briefly with these in turn , but for a fuller account the reader is recommended to Walker ( 1975 ) . |
| 2 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 3 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 4 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 5 | I accept that the number of immigration officers at Heathrow has increased , but for a long time the numbers employed were well below what was required . |
| 6 | But for a brief space the archbishop was at peace with both pope and emperor , and this was an alliance even the commune could not withstand . |
| 7 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 8 | CRYING out for help but for a different reason the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway are seeking volunteers from among the enthusiast fraternity . |
| 9 | But as a general principle the right of animals to be animals , to live in their space on God 's good earth , is a moral principle I commend as a rule of thumb . |
| 10 | Storage methods vary considerably , as do the most suitable conditions ( ‘ Grenadier ’ apples store best several degrees cooler than ‘ Blenheim Orange ’ , or example ) , but as a general rule the place of storage should be dry and cool . |
| 11 | But as a general rule the image must be at no more than five metres distance . |
| 12 | This will depend on the wind strength , but as a general rule the hand movements should start about a third of the way into the turn when the board is travelling at its fastest . |
| 13 | But after a two-year battle the Environment Minister has given his approval . |
| 14 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 15 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 16 | But after a lengthy investigation the police ruled out foul play . |
| 17 | As Robert Spencer Bernard , barrister and part-time farmer of wild boar for several years on his Buckinghamshire estate , said : ‘ A tiger is a tiger whether you see it in the London Zoo or in the Indian forests , but with a wild boar the argument is n't so simple . ’ |
| 18 | At Hampton Ferry the Saturday match was cancelled but with a milder day the Sunday event was still going ahead Saturday night . |
| 19 | But in a strange way the desperate state of the house opened up its history and construction to our eyes : in an eighteenth-century building everything is usually concealed behind plasterwork . |
| 20 | One should not attribute human qualities to natural phenomena , but in a strange way the gentleness with which Mt Pelee buried its victims seemed like a sort of atonement for their deaths . |
| 21 | ‘ John David ’ does not question the child 's ‘ right to live ’ but in a real sense the ability of parents — mainly the mother — to accept the child into their home . |
| 22 | If the client recovers nothing , the lawyer receives no fee , but in a successful case the lawyer receives a percentage of the damages recovered . |
| 23 | Nowadays methods vary from teacher to teacher , but in a typical lesson the pupil is likely to find himself lying , sitting or standing on a hard table while his teacher , using hands and voice , gently guides his head and gets him to release his neck and shoulders . |
| 24 | His mother and a council of nobles were appointed to act as Regents , but in a short time the queen had fallen out with her colleagues , not least because she was an avowed supporter of the house of York , while several of them stood for Lancaster . |
| 25 | One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do … |
| 26 | When frozen , some of these waterfalls can offer ice-climbing practice , but in a hard winter the cloughs often fill with deep snow and their ascents can vary in difficulty from Grade I to impossible . |
| 27 | But in a primitive way the view that the upper classes were a higher type of humanity , developing its superiority by endogamy , and threatened by mixture with the lower orders and even more by the more rapid increase of the inferior , was widely held . |
| 28 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 29 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 30 | But within a few years the Americans were using new machines , a fraction of the size , that an unskilled woman could operate for a fraction of the pay , and upon which she could spin as many stockings an hour as the Black Beauty — and without seams . |