Example sentences of "but [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low value consignments are easily covered by this facility , but for the haulier carrying a more valuable load , such as video equipment or other luxury consumer durables , additional cover has to be taken . |
| 2 | The earliest narrow boats were very simply painted with the owner 's name and address and basic geometric designs , but during the mid-19th century a form of decoration now known as ‘ Roses and Castles ’ developed introducing a rich and varied tradition which has lasted to this day . |
| 3 | Of less significance as a provider , but in the long term a more powerful agent of change , was the Canning Town Health Society . |
| 4 | In a case of recognition an identification parade would often be pointless but in the present case an identification parade or at the least a controlled confrontation should have been held . |
| 5 | After Vlastimir 's death internal quarrels and invasions by both Bulgarian and Byzantine forces seriously weakened the Serbs , but in the eleventh century a revived Serbian kingdom emerged , centred on the old Roman town of Doclea , near the present-day site of Titograd . |
| 6 | But in the general election a year later the Republicans lost ground to more radical reform movements . |
| 7 | There is nothing to show how long the game or the Society had been in abeyance before the meeting but in the same record a minute implies that the Society had been formed in 1483 . |
| 8 | But in the last resort a trade association has limited sanctions that it can apply , and if necessary it is for booksellers themselves to take appropriate action . |
| 9 | Loudon 's avowed objective , ‘ the amelioration of the great mass of society in all countries ’ , may appear to a modem reader grandiose , but to the Victorian reformer a bloodless revolution in housing seemed the best way of avoiding the carnage already witnessed on the European mainland . |
| 10 | Consequently the bear-feast — ubiquitous in Siberia — was on the one hand a communal enjoyment of the cooked flesh of the animal , but on the other hand a sacred ritual intended to placate the bear-spirit and ensure that , while the dead animal would live again , its spirit would not seek vengeance on those who had killed it . |
| 11 | But on the other hand a quarter of the total US TV audience tunes into it each week . |
| 12 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 13 | And we had elaborate rules for , for doing this erm some of us will remember , but on the other hand a large number of people listening wo n't remember , though perhaps they were taught that . |
| 14 | Legal costs come out of the estate they 're not an executor 's personal responsibility , but on the other hand an executor is not entitled to charge for the work that he does . |
| 15 | To illustrate this with an example , on the objectual interpretation " ( Ex ) x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance is Hades ' is false , because there is no such entity ; but on the substitutional interpretation a replacement of x in " x is a three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades " with " Cerberus " yields a true proposition ; which , if we are talking about Greek mythology , is of course as it should be . |
| 16 | This indicates an acceptance of the state structures , or a recognition of a need for the separation of Northern Ireland from the remaining state structure of Ireland , but at the same time a continuing opposition to protestant — loyalist dominance . |
| 17 | But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence . |
| 18 | DesignaKnit is easy to use — but at the same time a well-designed package with an excellent range of options . |
| 19 | We have treated it as a subject , but at the same time a method , the principal method whereby education may achieve its ultimate aim of giving a wide outlook on life . |
| 20 | There is a corresponding and no less seminal change in painting : the abandonment of the single ground line on which all figures rest ; a change which makes painting no longer simply the decoration of a flat surface but at the same time a feigned window on the three-dimensional world . |
| 21 | The term ‘ community ’ implies a diversity but at the same time a certain organized uniformity in the units . |
| 22 | A fair painting ; free in style but at the same time a good likeness . |
| 23 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 24 | The ability of the counsellor to be part of a group , fully involved and an interested party , but at the same time an ‘ observer ’ , may appear to be more difficult than it really is . |