Example sentences of "[verb] but for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 2 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 3 | The struggle of Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill — from sec to exec — provides the perfect scenario not only for power dressing but for the enactment of many dominant-5 mythologies about women , work and social class . |
| 4 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 5 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |
| 6 | This may improve as arrangements for care management are gradually introduced but for the foreseeable future plans will have to reflect a realistic view of available resources . |
| 7 | This is not just for the pleasure of travelling but for the purpose of learning and evolving . |
| 8 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 9 | A low Mughal gateway led on into a wet and glistening flagstone courtyard ; it was deserted but for a solitary pupil running late towards his class . |
| 10 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 11 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 12 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |