Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he did not want to involve British troops and planes in action , but admitted for the first time that it was a possibility . |
| 2 | Bufi 's " government of national stability " was announced on June 12 , including PLA members but incorporating for the first time the DP as well as the Republican Party , the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Party ; nine members were non-party . |
| 3 | It displays the extraordinary virtuosity which this scheme encourages , but has at the same time great sculptural power . |
| 4 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 5 | My philosophy is that if somebody beats you then he 's lucky ; that on the day , your best was n't good enough — but wait for the next time round . |
| 6 | Modules in this category are not formatted into the next volume opened but disregarded until the next time hard copy format is run . |
| 7 | The aim is to acknowledge the guilty nature of the hero according to one set of criteria , those of ordinary morality , but to stress at the same time that his guilty act is a source of pride and value of an altogether different , non-moral , antinomian kind . |
| 8 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 9 | But think of the last time you had a meal out and the service you encountered . |
| 10 | Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be . |
| 11 | But arguing for the additional time and money and confronting the critics transformed a potential failure into a ringing success . |
| 12 | Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts . |