Example sentences of "[prep] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The General , unfortunately , died of cholera shortly after but the locomotive survived until the 1960's at Haymarket Shed ; Edinburgh , hauling the daily goods service on the South Queensferry branch before final withdrawal from Bathgate shed .
2 Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got .
3 The 12,000 crowd expected in Sheffield will be the largest the Coopers have ever played in front of but the publicity that would accompany Olympic success for Great Britain could make Ian into hockey 's first Gazza-figure .
4 The susceptibility has already been spoken of but the assessment of a patient involves looking at their health on all levels , including physical , mental and emotional .
5 We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that .
6 It may well be that , for the Church historian of the middle of the twenty-first century , the tensions of the period of John Paul II through which we are now passing will themselves appear as but an interlude in the process initiated by the Council , and ending in a form of Catholicism still unimaginable today .
7 And for that reason , need , local need , should be catered for , unemployment sh obviously should be catered for but a growth strategy which seeks to double the allocation without any justification is inevitably going to lead to one of two things , it is going to draw in in economic activity from outside , and it is likely that that will be from areas of regeneration , or it will lead to commuting .
8 He guides us among its ‘ toy-like villas , each different in design and each set against a background of trees A curling road winds through , but not everything is revealed at once : a chimney for but a moment here , a turret window through a gap between two acacia trees , a gable partly concealed by the fretted roof of a conservatory , an almond tree in blossom branching over the pavement , a spot of scarlet colour made by a distant pillar box . ’
9 Nothing now remained to contend for but the possession of office : politics were reduced to a struggle between ‘ ins ’ and outs .
10 If the change in state is isothermal then — U = 0 and we again have a perfect differential form for but the strain energy function is now not equal to the internal energy U but to the Helmholtz free energy A = U — TS .
11 Indicating understanding of poor language skills does not necessarily mean that children receive what they are asking for but the fact that poor language has not interfered with the process of communication needs to be made clear to children .
12 What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously .
13 Not one of those books on healthy vaginas and wombs which Marigold might easily have looked into but a work on the nasty bacilli which may infest the human reproductive organs after a bungled or septic abortion .
14 Now you regret it and not because of the trouble I 'll get into but the trouble you 'll get into . ’
15 This argument was not expanded upon but the implication that there should be more evidence of ‘ class struggle ’ in the programme was picked up by Socialist Worker .
16 Notice Board No suitable situation has yet been decided upon but the bank has been suggested as has also outside the hairdresser ‘ s .
17 He had not really noticed before but the boy weighed almost nothing in his arms .
18 across the road from but a floor below
19 It made his work pattern not merely different from but the opposite to that of Asquith .
20 Certainly it was never specifically referred to but a reading of the judgment would , I apprehend , ground an argument that the judge , having found that the appellants were in contempt and knew at all relevant times of the existence of the order against them , was in a position to exercise the discretion that he was given .
21 To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery .
22 I could I know about there if I really want to but no way I could do it .
23 He began on a new plan and Endill tried to ask him what he was up to but every time he approached , Mould shouted ,
24 Not just the right to negotiate , but to but the organization should actually be organized to benefit the people who are part of it .
25 Power is supplied from a plug-in transformer , a single red LED shows that the power in on but no power switch is fitted .
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