Example sentences of "[adj] but at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closer editing would have improved this but at the cost of time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 7 | Above Eaux-Bonnes is the ski resort of Gourette , which has been created in the kind of setting ski resorts ought to have , in pasture-land but at the foot of the formidable mass of the Pic de Ger to the south . |
| 8 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 9 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 10 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 11 | We need staffing , people in that area and she 's an internal candidate that 's come through , she 's done a good job right and and now she 's you know it 's not right but at the moment it gets us over a q over a quick fix |
| 12 | on site time- keeping and sickness is low but at the end of the day when it comes to the middle of May then she ai n't gon na get a sh she ai n't gon na be employed anyway to be quite honest , unless she pulls her finger out . |
| 13 | The conditions producing weakness in this respect are highly complex but at a risk of oversimplification one might say that the balance of payments constraint reflects a relative ‘ industrial ossification ’ of the British economy — a failure to restructure and reinvest on a sufficient scale to maintain the position of the national economy on the world market . |
| 14 | It will be less polluting but at the cost of native energy sources which will be left to rot underground . |
| 15 | Or a straight down blind but at an angle but er but on runners to hold , yeah . |
| 16 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 17 | ’ We take all the obvious precautions security tags , chaining up the leather , keeping staff vigilant but at the end of the day , it 's impossible to be 100 per cent secure . |
| 18 | Lee 's wife Carol explained : ‘ We are leaving our options open but at the moment Space Fair still goes for the Mackeson . |
| 19 | Certainly the new paradigm will have problems of its own but at the moment at least , its dominant characteristics seem to be those of caring , individuation , personal responsibility , individual freedom , self-exploration and personal fulfilment . |
| 20 | Oh Andrew 's always very slow but at the end of it bending his head . |
| 21 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 22 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |