Example sentences of "but [prep] the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finest bronze castings of Shang China and arguably of all time were not made for implements or even weapons , but for the ritual vessels centred on the cult of ancestors . |
| 2 | Choi Chong-Sun , head of the Atomic Energy Industry Ministry 's foreign affairs bureau , denied that North Korea possessed a reprocessing plant , but for the first time admitted that the " nuclear reprocessing cycle " was under study . |
| 3 | Olive was born there and might have stayed in Ireland for good but for the civil unrest created by the Irish demands for home rule at the time . |
| 4 | By the mid-seventeenth century it had become normal for the wealth of the old people to be transferred to the next generation when they retired , perhaps in their sixties , but for the retired couple to retain houseroom in the family home ; and in order to make disputes less likely , these retirement arrangements were increasingly recorded in deeds . |
| 5 | Warnaweera and Muralitharan both finished up with four wickets apiece — but for the second day running very few Sri Lankan spectators turned up to watch . |
| 6 | Warnaweera and Muralidharan both finished up with four wickets apiece — but for the second day running very few Sri Lankan spectators turned up to watch , preferring the spectacle of a college match series in the city . |
| 7 | But for the average home-owner to find good taste cheaply , displayed informally , and feel certain that he or she was not making a mistake because it was already arranged and coordinated , was quite new to Parisians . |
| 8 | A new product release , for example , might be angled for the consumer media along the lines of the second release given above for Brand A. But for the retail trade press much more emphasis will need to be given to discounts , special promotions and advertising — in fact , full details of what 's in it for the retailer . |
| 9 | But for the hon. Member to make such a statement , particularly today when , if I catch your eye , I shall make a statement about equipment procurement for our forces , leaves me breathless . |
| 10 | It was not for them but for the ruling CPP to decide what best promoted the goals Nkrumah outlined . |
| 11 | They make a fair introduction to Marley 's music , but for the true man try ‘ Exodus ’ or ‘ Burnin' ’ . |
| 12 | There is , of course , nothing wrong with trying to look your best , but for the born-again Weldon to refuse to see anyone unless she spent half the day in the hairdressers and then proclaim that she 's only doing it to further her career ( oh , please ) smacks of hypocrisy of the very highest order . |
| 13 | This defence of Marxism carries over , however , to a critique of Modernism itself : not merely for the fact that Nietzsche attaches ‘ importance ’ to art but for the further claim ascribed to him , and therefore to Modernism itself , that ‘ the nature of aesthetic experience contains in nuce the form of understanding proper to the world itself ( p. 66 ) . |
| 14 | But for the whole country to flourish , the richer regions must yield all they could spare to help feed and develop the poorer ; and the manpower , too , must be deployed where it was needed to defend the vulnerable harbours and pirate bases of the north and the west , with all the consequent problems of travel in that wild land of mountain and river . |
| 15 | We are talking here not specifically about DNA , but about the basic ingredients needed for life to arise anywhere in the universe . |
| 16 | Couples are also older than lone mothers , tend to have larger families , but about the same proportion have a youngest child of under school age . |
| 17 | There was a silence in the room , but through the open window came the shouting from the street . |
| 18 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 19 | But of the 28,000 names affected by this scandal , 16,000 are currently taking legal action . |
| 20 | But of the 542 places petitioning in 1792 only 283 also petitioned in 1814 — a ‘ persistence rate ’ of only 52.21 per cent . |
| 21 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 22 | IT is something of a cliche to say that the printed word has faced growing competition from new technology , but throughout the Eighties consumer spending on books did maintain a steady growth . |
| 23 | Montana is the man they call Joe Cool , but beneath the calm exterior burns a fierce will to win — a fire stoked by the 49ers ' decision to part with the quarterback who lit the flames at Candlestick Park . |
| 24 | Montana is the man they call Joe Cool , but beneath the calm exterior burns a fierce will to win — a fire stoked by the 49ers ' decision to part with the quarterback who lit the flames at Candlestick Park . |
| 25 | But behind the sanitised exterior lies a murky world of shady housing deals , the spectre of Irangate and a system tarnished and corrupted . |
| 26 | Further west lies the rain-clouded Asturias , where the green fields around Oviedo reminded an English clergyman of the ‘ richer parishes in England ’ .4 But behind the coastal belt stretches a poor region of upland and mountain pasture . |
| 27 | But under the increasing pressures imposed by larger classes , dwindling resources and the relentless demand for accountability , they find themselves adopting styles of classroom management that militate against the achievement of the aims they claim to espouse . |
| 28 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 29 | The HMI survey of English as a second language in six LEAs ( published 1988 ) found that , on balance , the children in the survey made most progress where the programme to provide help with their English was designed to support the mainstream curriculum but with the oral component heightened . |
| 30 | As we follow trajectories starting at two close-together points , we move to points with the same symbolic descriptions but with the central mark moved further and further to the right . |