Example sentences of "[adj] but for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'm sure that screaming along with fifteen knot in a force six is really exciting but for a landlubber like myself it 's certainly not on . |
| 2 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 3 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 4 | The roof of the City stretched away from him like a vast field of snow , empty but for the small group of officials who were gathered , heads bowed , beside the open hatchway . |
| 5 | One night the black spring sky may be quiet and peaceful , empty but for the cicadas . |
| 6 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 7 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 8 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 9 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 10 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 11 | This is necessary not only for the individual but for the development of society . |
| 12 | She withdrew immediately , retreating into her corner of the bench , her face expressionless but for the suspicious sidelong glance she sent him . |
| 13 | He had dreamed about Mr Whistle , picturing him as a child-sized man in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit , with floppy velvet bows and knickerbockers , his head a white eggshape , featureless but for a shark 's gash of a mouth . |
| 14 | Confident that ‘ Bazza ’ would return , the programme editor left a white space where the manager 's notes should have been , blank but for the message : ‘ This page is reserved . ’ |
| 15 | We fished stuff out of the trashcans in Washington Square Park , a sandwich , an apple intact but for the missing bite , then to the Superette for nickels and dimes . |
| 16 | The door was locked , the room unlit but for the faint glow of a small screen to one side of the desk . |
| 17 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 18 | ‘ Today 's game is only of relative importance , not just because it is a friendly but for the good reason that today 's Argentina bears little resemblance to the one that will play in next summer 's finals . |
| 19 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 20 | Yes , the publications will be technology reliant but for the historian looking at a particular subject , there is also key word searching , text retrieval , ( to abstracts as well as full text ) and all on a physically smaller source ( CD-ROM ) . |
| 21 | ‘ It sounds terrible but for a while you felt like the local people were to blame . ’ |
| 22 | Olive was born there and might have stayed in Ireland for good but for the civil unrest created by the Irish demands for home rule at the time . |
| 23 | We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses . |
| 24 | Er the bodywork 's not brilliant but for a B reg car it 's alright . |
| 25 | Unchanging but for the seasons . |
| 26 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 27 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 28 | That model is still available but for the UK , Europe and most other overseas markets , the standard Convertible is now a 2+2 although the rear seats are plainly not meant to accommodate adults . |
| 29 | By the early fourteenth century Ramon Lull could stress the need to fight not merely for self-glorification but for the common good . |
| 30 | as if to ensure , however , that we can not interpret this work as a declaration of Gironella , s ideas about race and colour in Mexico , there exists another version , almost identical but for the fact that this is a white queen . |