Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But for the New Critics art existed in order to convey a meaning , albeit a meaning that no logical discourse is capable of expressing , and attention to matters of form was regarded as the means whereby the non-rational meanings of literature could be uncovered . |
2 | French may be studied at Edinburgh not only at all levels of MA(General) and MA ( General Honours ) but as a single honours subject ( with a secondary subject taken in the first two years ) ; or as the major or minor subject in a wide variety of joint degrees , where it is combined with another modern European language , or with one of a number of Arts Faculty subjects , or even with subjects ( Business Studies and Law ) from other faculties . |
3 | When the first parade passed off without serious incident ( but with a massive police presence ) , the Portadown Orangemen reaffirmed their determination to go through the Tunnel on the Twelfth . |
4 | A special session of the Diet was called for early August , but with the developing securities scandal leading to widespread calls for urgent measures to improve regulation of the stock market , the LDP 's failure to secure the support of Komeito and the DSP , and an unknown level of support for Kaifu within his own party , it was far from certain that the Prime Minister would succeed in his legislative aims . |
5 | The metric in this region may be taken to be of the form ( 6.20 ) , but with the metric functions U , V , W and M all depending on u only . |
6 | ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’ |
7 | The delivery of more than nine out of every ten items ( 95% ) was straightforward , but in the remaining cases delivery was , for a number of reasons , less than straightforward . |
8 | But in the private world(s) hedonism takes root . |
9 | But in the public goods case , it may be fruitful to allow for the possibility that individuals may be motivated by commitment ( Johansen , 1977 ; Sen , 1979 ; Margolis , 1982 ) . |
10 | The private ones , being exclusive , aroused bad feelings , but to the public ones people came from miles around and were given things to eat : distant relations , old friends , old acquaintances , old enemies , but no outsiders , no aliens . |
11 | An investigation is being carried out at the moment , not only by Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution but by the National Rivers Authority . |