Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine may be be smooth , refined and flexible in its mid-range , but for a cross-country sprint it 's asthmatic . |
| 2 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
| 3 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 4 | There is a standard lie for each club , but for a short person it ought to be one or two degrees flatter . |
| 5 | I really think you should go for the Broughton 's ‘ Wasa Wasa ’ masterpiece instead of this , but for a quick fix it will suffice . |
| 6 | But for a nagging worry she was fully recovered . |
| 7 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 8 | Opening a window or door will give temporary relief , but for a permanent solution you will need to fit air vents in an outside wall , or either side of the hearth if the floor is timber . |
| 9 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 10 | Being rude about Palin feels like bombing Switzerland , but for the first time he seems , with this series , to be to post-Python what Paul McCartney was to post-Beatles . |
| 11 | It 's relaxing and rewarding when you get ir right , not because dace are big or particularly strong , but for the sheer number you can catch . |
| 12 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 13 | These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice . |
| 14 | But for the best bile you need to tune in to the critics . |
| 15 | Aromatherapy can help many disorders , but for the best results it should form part of a holistic health regime . |
| 16 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 17 | But for the real enthusaists it 's the Russians and their East European neighbours which have aroused the most interest . |
| 18 | To that extent the SuperCut is also on the right lines , and has some benefits , but for the serious woodcutter it is limiting . |
| 19 | But for the thousandth time I do n't do anything and we get to the bathroom safely . |
| 20 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |
| 21 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 22 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 23 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 24 | John Bunyan wrote of the reading of his youth : " Give me a ballad , a news-book , George on horseback , or Bevis of Southampton ; give me some book that teaches curious arts , that tells of old fables ; but for the holy Scriptures I cared not . " |
| 25 | If you can go again this is no problem , but for the once-only visitor it is a great pity . |
| 26 | But for the federalist movement it was small compensation for the loss of EDC and the EPC . |
| 27 | Or did do mind you I I would n't think it now not for younger folk that 's not the case but for the older folk it very much worse . |
| 28 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 29 | It is built on the shape of the letter ‘ E ’ , not necessarily as a compliment to Queen Elizabeth but for the satisfactory symmetry it afforded to the most important east-facing front which the world and his wife could view as they passed by . |
| 30 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |