Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The path up the gully from Bridge of Orchy is certainly the shortest route to the two peaks , but for a longer and more spectacular walk there is a deliciously tempting circuit round the back of the mountains via Auch Gleann . |
| 2 | It also suggests why ‘ interdisciplinarity ’ may occur not simply at the notional boundaries of contiguous disciplines , but as a subtle and often unpredictable flow of information and influence from one part of the model to another . |
| 3 | It treated its subject not as some kind of jokey aberration , but as a normal if slightly unexpected development of the weird and wonderful adventure we call Life . |
| 4 | But amongst the easier and more obvious structures to count are the dendritic spines , and a graduate student of Mike 's , Sanjay Patel , did just that in the mid-1980s . |
| 5 | A Liverpool friend remembered him as ‘ a tall spare man with alert eyes and a very beautiful voice , but with an ironic and often unkind humour about his contemporaries ’ . |
| 6 | Not just with the new things , but with the old as well . |
| 7 | Then night falls and , by the light of the moon , you can just make out shapes and outlines — the scene is still beautiful but in a calmer and less vibrant way . |
| 8 | But in the Cambrian or earlier the chordates no doubt included animals little more highly organized than the contemporary arthropods or brachiopods . |
| 9 | Working in a similar vein but on a grander and more broadly historical scale is Alfred Kren , with exhibitions at his large three-room space at Antwerpenstrasse 42 often following a diptych format . |
| 10 | His thin , pale face contorted as he said , " Well , I sha n't go into the seamy details … the more basic facets of life , but on a cleaner if more frustrating theme , I have been trying to seduce that lovely Dickson boy over the last week . |
| 11 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |