Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The volume seems about right but the shape is quite wrong . |
| 2 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 4 | There was some authority for this but the matter is now governed by section 11(1) of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 which firmly states that contributory negligence is no defence in proceedings founded on conversion , or on intentional trespass to goods . |
| 5 | We did n't really need a Christmas present after that but the encore , the intermezzo from Delius 's Fennimore and Gerda , was very welcome all the same . |
| 6 | The metal may be somewhat brittle after this but a final tempering process ( heating to a moderate temperature , followed by slow cooling ) relieves the internal stresses , leaving a hard and durable finished product which is mechanically stronger than bronze . |
| 7 | The sequence of eighth-century Northumbrian annals is lost after 801 but the sparse fragments of a former continuation which are preserved in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle terminate in 806 with a note of the expulsion of King Eardwulf ( ASC D , s.a. 806 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 9 | It is things like that which are really destructive to writers , who are often brave about illness and pain , and resilient after all but the deepest grief . |
| 10 | ‘ What was it after all but an experiment ? |
| 11 | It announced a 27 p.c. fall in profits to £28.4m for 1991 but the first quarter of 1992 showed a ‘ significant recovery ’ . |
| 12 | Powerful material for 1963 but a sample of how the show should have developed its characters to make them more rounded and believable . |
| 13 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |
| 14 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 15 | The Communist Party still had less than 6,000 members at the end of 1934 but the balance within the Left was beginning to move towards it and away from the disintegrating ILP . |
| 16 | No plenty of bloody but no or see he forgot to go up and help was busy on Boxing Day they wo n't pay , they give them a free ticket to get in . |
| 17 | It goes without saying that it is not £75,000 in respect of each but the total earnings ’ figure which must not exceed £75,000 . |
| 18 | Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots . |
| 19 | Forest think they got an offside decision out of that but the whistle had er gone before that . |
| 20 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 21 | The mainland of Yvresse lies along the eastern coast of Ulthuan but the realm also encompasses the islands of the Eastern Ocean . |
| 22 | Certainly , an attack on southern planning models , national legislation , and perhaps even bureaucratisation was implicit in all of this but the issue of personal culpability clouded and discredited these important points . |
| 23 | In the Warhammer world there is no 100% guarantee of this but the tendency will be there . |
| 24 | You are too callow to be aware of this but the term ‘ boxer shorts ’ is merely a marketing neologism , coined in order to revamp a demand for what in England was perceived as an outmoded type of underwear . |
| 25 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 26 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 27 | Empty of content but the drip of pain . |
| 28 | The largest of these was the Forum of Trajan but the oldest is the Forum Romanum , or as it is often called , simply ‘ the Forum ’ . |
| 29 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 30 | With the colour mask tube the horizontal definition is theoretically reduced by a factor of three but the eye is quite tolerant to small changes of detail in moving scenes in the opposite direction . |