Example sentences of "[adj] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will discuss a little later the emotions implications of this but for the moment we are reflecting on the practical issues that overwhelm the bereaved person . |
| 2 | Closer editing would have improved this but at the cost of time . |
| 3 | Now , you are too young to be aware of this but in the past there was held to be a linkage between so-called ‘ self-abuse ’ and the sebaceous rigours of your time of life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It was really good and really exciting but in a way it was also like a flashback to 1983 or something , because I still wanted to do completely different songs to everyone else ! |
| 6 | Slightly raised intraocular pressures were controlled with timolol 0.25% twice daily but with no improvement in acuity , which by March 1992 had deteriorated to 6/36 right and 6/60 left . |
| 7 | The Banks indicated to the Labour Court , at that stage , that the numbers required for this task would be approximately 700 but despite the fact that full Extended Opening Hours are now in place , the figure actually employed by the Banks falls very far short of that number . |
| 8 | The progress of this relationship is n't altogether clear but at the end of the book he describes the Italian male lover as a ‘ sleepy tomcat ’ and Vittoria 's life as subject to frequent phases of ‘ wailing neck biting followed by complacent indifference ’ from such men . |
| 9 | He was good-looking but of the rough , hirsute kind . |
| 10 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 11 | ‘ We are aiming not at the elaboration of a few but at the erection of many temples or houses of our Lord ’ and therefore ‘ cheapness in the construction of each is indispensable to success ’ and Gothic chapels need not be expensive . |
| 12 | It 's also pretty wet but with the ratchet block taking the strain out of controlling the sail I can concentrate on technique and having fun and respond to the gusts by sheeting in or sheeting out if I 'm overpowered and moving bodyweight in or out to suit the . |
| 13 | Er and we feel that that would be er unrealistic but within the modelling context , we do n't think that it needs to be separately taken into account . |
| 14 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 15 | Finn had at last wrenched Bothwell free but at the cost of tearing apart his controls ; in a spiky halo of torn wire , Bothwell crumpled to the floor . |
| 16 | Worked out right , but not in sort of , I 've bought some but including the rest of them I 've got about a hundred pounds spending . |
| 17 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 18 | The stress σ is applied to spring E 1 and dashpot η 3 ; it is also shared by E 2 and η 2 but in a manner which varies with time . |
| 19 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was empty but for the Doctor , looking very smug , and the TARDIS . |
| 22 | Then he went , leaving the house empty but for the woman and the Overseer . |
| 23 | Governors were kept informed but as a decision of the headteachers rather than as a matter of right . |
| 24 | Whatever your opinion of ABBA 's music , you must admit they had a hell of a knack for penning a commercial tune ; the chord sequence here is fairly standard but with a couple of nice twists , with the bass playing a central role in the arrangement . |
| 25 | Usually these breaks are not perpendicular but at an angle , and so long as the end is carefully flame-polished , minor irregularities in the line of the break do not matter . |
| 26 | This is necessary not only for the individual but for the development of society . |
| 27 | At first it were good because it were incentive for her to keep going because she 'd , you know , paid so much but toward the end , she said , it were getting ridiculous . |
| 28 | It 's just started to get dark but by the time it 's just started to get |
| 29 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 30 | This material will be attractive , serious but with an air of fun and festivity as well . |