Example sentences of "but at the [noun sg] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She accompanies Lucie and her child to Paris during the Reign of Terror , when Darnay has been imprisoned , and forcibly prevents Madame Defarge from discovering their escape but at the cost of her own hearing ( she is permanently deafened by the accidental firing off of Mme Defarge 's pistol during their struggle ) , TTC i 4 et seq . |
| 2 | The retailer may be cushioned from cut-throat competition from supermarkets but at the cost of their freedom to sell or price as they wish : like small subcontractors , being tied to a dominant parent company may be the cost of insuring against business failure . |
| 3 | There were so many things to do but at the back of her mind she knew she would never do any of them . |
| 4 | But at the back of everyone 's mind is the coming battle for the site of the biggest project on the horizon , NET . |
| 5 | But at the back of my mind a little voice says , ‘ He 's the hairdresser , he knows best , let him do what he wants and I 'll walk out looking like a princess . ’ |
| 6 | But at the back of our minds , we know that something is n't right . |
| 7 | I think he could cope all right but at the back of his mind will always be the fact that possibly he let the party down . |
| 8 | He thought of startling Fred and Daisy with a flood of Italian when he met them off the boat train at Victoria Station , but at the sight of them his plans fled for excitement . |
| 9 | Not just at contemplation of the glass but at the thought of its being here , in the flat , with me . |
| 10 | But at the beginning of my third year , took over from , he played saxophone , and was more interested in school bands and pop music . |
| 11 | But at the hack of your head you had always thought for rescue , reaching hands . |
| 12 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 13 | He had turned back to help someone else out of the train , but at the sound of her calling , he swung round and stood waiting , his arms outstretched and his face , above that dear and familiar gingery beard , creased with the broadest smile . |
| 14 | It was the Europeans who cultivated fish that may have satisfied culinary requirements , but at the expense of what some would consider to be the aesthetic qualities of a ‘ typical ’ carp . |
| 15 | Ulpian 's own case is concerned with trusts , but at the end of his text , in the course of citing the rescript , mention of legacies is made . |
| 16 | But at the end of his life his memory abandoned him and he died without having written the book . |
| 17 | But at the end of his paper Nagel hints at the possibility of an objective phenomenology . |
| 18 | They talked sensibly , for full half an hour , but at the end of it Wilson felt neither clearer nor happier , only numb . |
| 19 | ‘ But at the end of it all we still have our little star . |
| 20 | There was no limit to the amount of money which could be used during any given assignment but at the end of it each operative had to account to Kolchinsky for his or her expenses in tabular form , supplying the relevant chits to back up the figurework . |
| 21 | But at the end of it all she left the stage to applause loud enough to rock the rafters , knowing with an angry certainty that she 'd failed . |
| 22 | Oh Andrew 's always very slow but at the end of it bending his head . |