Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 5 | Its first public letter to the Scotsman referred to " clerical work " or supervisory jobs as being the best area to concentrate on , but within a short time it had established a register for women 's employment of a wider kind . |
| 6 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 7 | It 's also a colour of cold — and we have n't had much of a summer this year — but at the same time it reminds me of the warmth and tranquillity of a Claude Lorrain . |
| 8 | But at the same time it showed that there remained a solid contingent of the defence force loyal to General Noriega , who is wanted in the US on drug-trafficking charges . |
| 9 | But at the same time it reinforced the message that children in need were not characteristically children whose parents were abusive or neglectful . |
| 10 | But at the same time it is surely doing more than assert what God is not . |
| 11 | He or she may — and probably will — possess a more subtle view of ‘ professionalism ’ than the capacity to deliver examination results , but at the same time it is well known that many parents and politicians see those results as the crucial way by which schools account for their success or failure . |
| 12 | This range expresses the resourcefulness and imagination of user education librarians , but at the same time it may express some uncertainty with orientation techniques and , indeed , library orientation itself . |
| 13 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 14 | I 'll sit there and watch some guy and go , ‘ Man , the work that must have gone into that ! ’ and they 're just whizzing right along making it look easy , but at the same time it does n't make those hairs stand up . |
| 15 | The SJ-20 's general tone is rich and deep , but at the same time it 's still quite a controlled and well-balanced instrument ; I 'd say it falls somewhere between the ‘ Martin' and ‘ Guild ’ camps in character of sound . |
| 16 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |
| 17 | But at the same time it 's wonderful that the government is recognizing the kind of work that gay organizations have put into this issue . |
| 18 | ‘ I never wanted to leave Wigan — it would have been a downward step — but at the same time it had to be right for me . |
| 19 | It makes use of the latest knowledge about language and language learning , but at the same time it has a firm practical basis and is readily usable in the classroom . |
| 20 | Project English encourages learners to explore and experiment with language , but at the same time it provides firm support through a clearly structured syllabus , so that learners feel secure and confident . |
| 21 | There is a sense in which family relationships are regarded as providing structures of support which are uniquely reliable , but at the same time it is obvious that not everyone draws upon such support in practice . |
| 22 | The dialectic is the law of totalization which creates several collectivities , several societies , and one history — realities , that is , which impose themselves on individuals ; but at the same time it must be woven out of millions of individual actions . |
| 23 | I WAS EXTREMELY moved by Charles Fox 's superb article on Stephen Hawking ( ‘ Stephen Hawking , Superstar ’ ) , but at the same time it left me feeling uneasy . |
| 24 | But at the same time it 's very hard to get rid of something as large as the psychic fear of famine . |
| 25 | Higher education is relatively autonomous from the state but at the same time it is not isolated from the power structures and values of society . |
| 26 | But at the same time it is clear that some periods display radical situational change , while others , in between these , are periods of relative situational stability , when day-to-day conjunctural movement assumes a more prominent position in the historical picture ( see Gramsci 1971 : 175–85 ) . |
| 27 | Bella 's slander about drink baffled him , but at the same time it queerly took root , until he did indeed start boozing a good deal . |
| 28 | ‘ The whole document must look suitably smart in all respects — the sort of paper on which it 's printed , the use of colour and so on — but at the same time it has to avoid being gratuitously slick , ’ Boon warns . |
| 29 | The structure shown in the drawing is stable but at the same time it is vulnerable . |
| 30 | I begin by showing how different phases of that temporal process are associated with different spaces in and around the longhouse and end by showing that the very same " space-time " principles underlie the structure of the cosmos The anthropologist must regard the ancestral cosmos as an imaginary projection of present experience , but at the same time it is a projection which both controls present experience and forms an integral part of it . |