Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for now the search for Planet X is futile . |
| 2 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 3 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
| 4 | Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved . |
| 5 | You could be an intruder , an interloper , but with only the sound of your bubbles escaping and wobbling upwards , you are merely a privileged observer , watching but not touching . |
| 6 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 7 | But before then The Battle of the Atlantic Suite will have been released on compact disc , depicting a Murmansk convoy in the dark days of the war . |
| 8 | Over the past five years the executive information system has established itself as niche software in this area , but until recently the price of even PC-based EIS has prohibited their use by all but the major groups British Gas , Caledonian Airways , and the Kwik Save group , to name a few . |
| 9 | In the end , the best ambassadors will be its own graduates , but until then the support of its friends both in and outside Africa will be invaluable . |
| 10 | But from tomorrow the House of Commons should open the way for the first national lottery , making money for sport , the arts and charities . |
| 11 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 12 | But since then the evidence against oscillations has been mounting . |
| 13 | For a time he disported himself on stage like some hell-fire preacher , but since then the message of his songs has been more mixed again : even returning , sometimes , to his great old theme of disaffected love . |
| 14 | When he was much smaller , Tom was once discovered in my study attacking the dust-jacket of a Norman Mailer novel with my scissors ; no doubt he will make a fine critic , but since then the door to my bolt-hole has remained bolted . |
| 15 | A massive building society advertising campaign earlier this year has lured them into rates of 10% and 11% but since then the cost of borrowing has plunged , and these home owners have come unstuck . |
| 16 | But since then the gap between them and the banks has narrowed a situation the building societies favour |
| 17 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 18 | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed , but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion , a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end . |
| 19 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 20 | Four divisions of ten may not be the ideal solution for the future of Scottish football — it does n't , for example , address the problem of clubs meeting four times a season — but at least a reduction in the number of games from 44 to 36 will give everyone breathing space . |
| 21 | But at least a lot of players have sampled international competition at their own level and that can only be good for the game . |
| 22 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 23 | But at least the lure of some extra greenbacks has n't made his recent records so disappointing . |
| 24 | But at least the hole in its order book is no longer growing so fast . |
| 25 | He , no more than General Christison in Java , was able to operate in a political vacuum but at least the French in Saigon were treated as allies rather than as one-time enemies although , in the absence of sufficient numbers of Frenchmen , Japanese troops were required to fight Vietnamese who , as in Hanoi , were intent on the politics of a fait accompli . |
| 26 | But at least the rift with Rough Trade appeared to have been solved . |
| 27 | But at least the break in the silence seemed to break his trance . |
| 28 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 29 | Paul VI tried to modify the harshness of the early drafts by injecting a tone of patient pastoral compassion , but by then the damage to the Church 's credibility was done . |
| 30 | Tassi was jailed but by then the slander of Artemesia 's name was complete : she was branded a whore , later married off to a stranger and banished from Rome . |