Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monetary values depend on the size of the organisation but for a company the size of Lucas Automotive the potential savings from each review have generally run into hundreds of thousands of pounds . |
| 2 | Budgets will be devolved to team managers but for the present the department lacks the confidence . |
| 3 | But for the rest the similarity in the descriptions of station encampments shows a remarkable continuity between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 4 | But for the English the system of requisitioning , together with a few ships which might be built in both inland and seaside ports , and those constructed at Bayonne , were sufficient to meet most of their needs . |
| 5 | The period of study depends upon entry qualifications , but for the MPhil a minimum of 12 months full-time study is required . |
| 6 | The period of study depends upon entry qualifications but for the MPhil a minimum of 12 months full-time study is required . |
| 7 | Defeat of the Axis troops in Tunisia marked in Churchill 's words ‘ the end of the beginning ’ but for the enemy the beginning of the end and was indeed the turning point of the Second World War . |
| 8 | Inflation analysis divides many macroeconomists , but for the moment the question is how it can be introduced to analysis . |
| 9 | ‘ I am sure , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ that we 'll be able to get you moved into a much higher form later on , but for the moment the Headmistress wishes you to stay where you are . ’ |
| 10 | At intervals the defenders would come from one part or another of the ramparts to collect a supply of them ; but for the moment the firing was slack . |
| 11 | Minsky is making an interesting and important point here and I shall refer back to it , but for the moment the quotation functions purely as a sample : what it has in common with Turing 's classic paper is that it is not philosophical argument at all . |
| 12 | Her reasons are not to be and were not dismissed lightly , but during the hearing the situation changed dramatically . |
| 13 | But as a boy the cloud hung over me . |
| 14 | This seems a bewildering tangle of dates , but as a rule the traveller would take note only of the month and the day . |
| 15 | At first Dr Jaffery told more Mullah Nasir-ud-Din stories , but after a while the conversation became more serious . |
| 16 | But after a while the brain gym produces a sense of slipping away , while flashing colours play like a beautiful slow-motion firework display before your eyes . |
| 17 | They were very sympathetic but after a while the tension began to build with ever-increasing rows . |
| 18 | There was no answer , but after a moment the scratching was repeated . |
| 19 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 20 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 21 | But after the Restoration the government ceased to interfere with the enclosure of open field by private landlords , and the pace of change quickened sharply . |
| 22 | In the case of a limited number of Old English or Anglo-Saxon bynames these took such forms as at Dentune , on Lundye , of Wommerstone , in Mapeldre , but after the Conquest the prefix became , almost without exception , the preposition de ( of or from ) , it mattering not whether the place was in France or England . |
| 23 | But after the interval the striker pulled up with a hamstring strain , signalled to the bench to come off — and then gave the ball away and set up Stuttgart 's vital opening goal . |
| 24 | She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room . |
| 25 | But despite the death the rowing at Oxford went on as normal today. , with crews competing in the traditional college races . |
| 26 | After tax , reorganisation costs and preference dividends that turned into a loss of £58million , but despite the loss the company is paying a minimal final dividend . |
| 27 | After tax , reorganisation costs and preference dividends that turned into a loss of £58million , but despite the loss the company is paying a minimal final dividend . |
| 28 | The rain was so heavy it was ‘ like a swimming pool ’ but against the odds the show went on . |
| 29 | Not only in this fumigation method gaining wide recognition in the U.K. but throughout the world the bubble is being marketed under the Rentokil patent and is available in the U.S.A. through B & G Inc . |
| 30 | Similarly , if the London users want to enquire on the data , they initiate the enquiry on their local computer in the usual way , but behind the scenes the computer sends a message to its counterpart in New York asking for the data , which is then passed back across the network to be displayed on the enquirer 's screen . |