Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Filmophone ’ records were made of various colours of plastic , and had low surface-noise combined with great ruggedness ; but within a short time they warped so badly that they were unplayable . |
| 2 | But at the same time they looked sublimely elegant . |
| 3 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 4 | They are certainly comfortable and assured , but at the same time they have no real chance of converting others to their views , at least if conversion means more than expressing the hope that God will send faith to others too . |
| 5 | 13:31–35 ) give an implied warning of the dangers attending numerical growth , but at the same time they confirm that such growth is characteristic of the Kingdom of God ’ ( IRM July 1968:299 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ They change , manipulate and subvert ready-made products , but at the same time they are the apothesis of consumerism and an ideal workforce for contemporary capitalism . |
| 7 | The shapes of birds themselves can be fairly simple ; but at the same time they are subtle . |
| 8 | Additions such as these certainly enrich the idea of the longue durée ; but at the same time they complicate it by broadening the notion of constraint on which it depends and obscuring its relationship with conjonctures . |
| 9 | Not only did their desire for greater freedom at university lead them into conflict with the authorities , but at the same time they responded to issues of much wider social significance raised by the ‘ revolutionary situation ’ of 1859–61 , the massacre of peasants protesting against the terms of Emancipation , the repression of radical journalists such as Chernyshevsky . |
| 10 | They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence . |
| 11 | In 1806 he designed the hotel and assembly rooms in the suburb of Clifton , which the firm contracted to build ; but at the same time they were speculating by buying unfinished houses in Clifton which they completed and sold , and in 1809 they were overtaken by bankruptcy . |
| 12 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 13 | Of course , the houses were built out of necessity , but at the same time they were inevitably a speculation . |
| 14 | Does he agree that the collections are vast and have often been assembled at very little cost , but at the same time they are the treasures of the night watchmen ? |
| 15 | It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs . |
| 16 | War conditions added to the general impetus for change but at the same time they also inhibited change . |
| 17 | Counts can be seen as royal servants ; but at the same time they used their position to entrench their local power . |
| 18 | but at the same time they should n't just be looking at the subjects in isolation |