Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But for the Munitions of War Act of July 1915 which enabled the Board of Trade if necessary to impose arbitrated settlements on unwilling employers , the union 's policy of patriotic co-operation must surely have failed and within a month of the passing of that Act the waters were muddied by another development which the union considered to be even more sinister — the demand from the " Reptile press represented by the Daily Mail , Times and associate journals " , for conscription . |
2 | But for the donations of Louis the Pious in 817 and of Otto I in 962 we ave texts , the Ludovicianum and the Ottonianum , which have been accepted as genuine . |
3 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
4 | Indeed , it is doubtful if , but for the forces of repression , the higher social life of the human species could ever have become what it has . |
5 | No longer were our proposals for long term projects just reports on pieces of paper ; they were real — and not just for us , but for the children of Vietnam . |
6 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
7 | ‘ Well , what 's the window for but for the bairns at Christmas , because the grown-ups rarely stop and look at it . ’ |
8 | The list of oral skills required for business is long , but for the purposes of illustration some of the more important are listed below : |
9 | A list of the most important mosaics in each sequence should include the following : ( i ) in that of octagonal panelled designs , all of those so described in appendix E but for the mosaics from Fordington High Street , Dorchester ; and Dyer Street , Cirencester ( these , although showing 3 x 3 arrangements of octagons , suggest , in their decoration , rather different concerns to those illustrated elsewhere ) ; ( ii ) in the sequence of square and rectangular panelled grid arrangements , the four examples mentioned above , plus other possible examples from the Three Cups Inn site ( Barnard 's garden ) , Colchester ( pI . |
10 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
11 | These herbs may be easy enough to distinguish for the sighted , but through the eyes of Frank Gardner , it would seem an impossible task . |
12 | But below the rags of canvas — which Scathach deftly cut and rolled — were garments , belts and brooches . |
13 | But despite the promptings of Jamie Redknapp , it was all too frenetic . |
14 | But despite the attempts by brewers to attract women and families , pubs are still dominated by men and young people , Mintel concludes . |
15 | But despite the differences of opinion that exist — ones that are generally between individuals rather than any factions based on club or country — there is one area of consensus that prevails : That any new laws be given a trial period of at least one year . |
16 | The government tried to implement a ‘ scientific ’ approach to crime , but despite the exhortations of officials , headmen did not report crimes promptly . |
17 | But unlike the collections in Brooklyn , which have sat in storage while the museum awaits funds to build permanent galleries , much from the Denver collections will go on permanent display when the current renovations are completed . |
18 | But amongst the influences upon evaluations of competence are conceptualizations of police work . |
19 | With the first Dalek one , for example , I let Richard Martin , again a new Director , do a few episodes but under the wings of Christopher who set up the serial and so , kind of , held his hand while he eased himself into the role of Director , which was good experience for him . |
20 | But under the rules of self-management direct investment is heavily discouraged , since the investing firms can obtain no long-term control over the management of their ‘ subsidiaries ’ , and have no prospect of receiving reasonable profits ( or even other alternative advantages ) . |
21 | The company says it is aiming to reach 24% of the UK population by April 1994 , but under the terms of Mercury 's licence , it must be a nationwide service by the end of the decade . |
22 | These patterns of life were still widespread at the start of the 20th century ; a few pursue it today , but under the influences of civilization , most have settled and traded at least part of their culture for southern ways . |
23 | The cut surface was firm and pale , but with no areas of necrosis . |
24 | But with the reactions of society to the disturbed person and to his relatives , these problems may be sufficient in themselves to produce distorted patterns of family interaction . |
25 | Recorded reactions suggest that the German public was preoccupied not with Hitler 's remarks on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , but with the implications for war or peace contained in his speech . |
26 | We were not concerned with the front-end 's overall ability to recognise phonemes but with the kinds of problems it presented to LA . |
27 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
28 | This is an update of the author 's Spur Book of Wild Water Canoeing ( Books , Feb 79 ) , often with text and drawings unchanged ( one appearing twice ) but with the additions of photographs . |
29 | On both his opening outings in the Foursomes he had lost but in the singles like Christy O'Connor Jnr and Jose Maria Canizares behind him he was to produce the goods . |
30 | But in the interests of security we are keeping the information under wraps . |