Example sentences of "but [prep] a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply measuring height can mean a communication problem between children and their parents , but as a university lecturer I face a much greater difficulty because the use of just one inadvertent ‘ old ’ term can easily lose a class of students . |
| 2 | But as a Suffolk man minself , |
| 3 | First , the complete omission of ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ ( This may seem surprising , given that the text managed to get into the quarto , even if late ; but as a continuo song it could , at a pinch , have been accompanied by the harpsichordist from a separate sheet , with a gamba player reading over his shoulder . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 5 | But as a model prisoner he was back on the streets within three years after remission for good behaviour . |
| 6 | Yes , but as a County Councillor I did n't expect you to attack the idea of politically appointed Governors . |
| 7 | I have never regarded myself as a member of the " personality brigade " but as a television journalist who is equally experienced and valuable to a unit behind the cameras as in front of them . |
| 8 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 9 | I could not be happy doing that , but as a pop singer I was in my element , because really all I d I did n't even think of it as singing , I thought of it , when I performed on stage as a pop singer I just thought of of it really of making love to the audience . |
| 10 | It 's still not clear how the man set fire to himself , but as a remand prisoner he was allowed cigarettes and matches in his cell . |
| 11 | The rift between CART and USAC widened when the latter refused CART racing teams entry to the 1979 Indianapolis 500 , but after a court ruling they were reinstated . |
| 12 | But like a blood relation I ca n't dislike her or not care about her . |
| 13 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 14 | THE troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is not being authorised under the Emergency Powers Act , but under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 15 | But with a lodestone compass which was er magnetic iron oxide hung up on the ship , you could actually then work out that you go straight across from there to there no problems . |
| 16 | One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state . |
| 17 | This is relatively clear-cut when examining current redistribution , but with a lifetime approach we need to consider the issue of intergenerational distribution . |
| 18 | But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community . |
| 19 | But in a games lesson they push you to do so much |
| 20 | These include certain chemicals and temperatures , but in a laboratory sense which is completely divorced from any cultural meaning . |
| 21 | The gift presented should be one of value and usefulness for setting up home ( so that she is not disappointed ) , perhaps with a memento of her bachelor days , such as a cassette by her favourite pop singers , but inside a container gift which is a joke , e.g. a silver cake slice , or selection of kitchen implements , or telephone address book , plus cassettes in the bottom of a pair of large man 's football socks ( the correct size to fit her husband to be ) , or a pair of pillowcases embroidered ‘ his ’ and ‘ hers ’ . |
| 22 | And in the week , I do n't think he was working at the time , but on a Sunday morning he 'd walk out of that terrace house and er he 'd be immaculate , absolutely . |
| 23 | An unfortunate incident ; but on a rescue mission which was undertaken against the advice of the Imperial Adjudicator , no one will be suspicious . ’ |
| 24 | But on a Saturday nights we used to stay up when we was young . |
| 25 | But at a Whitehall seminar there was no agreement on how that national grid of optical cables , bringing hundreds of new services to home and business , should be built . |
| 26 | But at a drumming canter they bore down on the mass of men and beasts ahead , the circling Scots and the stationary English . |