Example sentences of "but [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They make a fair introduction to Marley 's music , but for the true man try ‘ Exodus ’ or ‘ Burnin' ’ . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a silence in the room , but through the open window came the shouting from the street . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But behind the sanitised exterior lies a murky world of shady housing deals , the spectre of Irangate and a system tarnished and corrupted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This process will continue with both consumption and income rising , but with the actual increase becoming smaller and smaller over time until eventually they become insignificant . |
| 24 | All he could discern on that side was a shade of difference between dark and light ; but with the one eye remaining he missed very little of what went on about him , and within the week he was out of his bed and trying his skill at aim and balance about the rooms and staircases . |
| 25 | Comes with several thousand words , but with the usual Lander edit facility this is a very flexible educational tool that has a place both in the home and in schools . |
| 26 | But with the new noise come all the old preconceptions and problems of how women present themselves . |
| 27 | The body lay diagonally across the path , as he had said , not quite flat on its face and breast , rather on the right shoulder , but with the right arm flung clear behind , and the left groping wide beside him , clear of the folds of the coarse hooded cloak he wore . |
| 28 | Then , if unc is the isolating row vector , we form unc Here unc is the first column of A except that the leading element unc is diminished by 1 ; thus the first column of unc is identical with that of A , while the ( n — 1 ) remaining columns are those of I. By Theorem IX of 1.22 unc Next we evaluate ( this step is not quite so simple ) unc so that unc Here unc is the second column of A but with the second element reduced by 1 ; unc and unc is the second element of unc Further steps follow this pattern and are obvious . |
| 29 | The problems usually lie not with emptiness , which can be filled , but with the fixed building created by a designer who thought he was being terribly clever but whose design has hindered events ever since . |
| 30 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |