Example sentences of "[prep] [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 6 | ‘ What was it after all but an experiment ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Forest think they got an offside decision out of that but the whistle had er gone before that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the Warhammer world there is no 100% guarantee of this but the tendency will be there . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 14 | He was received in a friendly fashion by the master of a French Basque ship of St Jean-de-Luz , who then turned on him , imprisoned him and his men , and stripped the Pilgrim of all but a minimum of food and sails . |
| 15 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 16 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 17 | Put it this way : in Danu , even with FAKINTIL on the way out , with my history it was like I possessed a personal qualification : doctor , lawyer , accountant , except I was not one of those but a traitor . |
| 18 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 19 | and I 'll just , I , you know , I do n't need someone like that but the point is that he , if he knows you do n't like him , he goes out of his way to make things difficult for you . |
| 20 | one 's like this but the problem we hit this year er , we did n't do it that early was the kids had got the forms out then the timetable and the financing came in and we did n't know what was happening |
| 21 | Sorry to single you ladies out like this but the story must start somewhere . |
| 22 | He often told himself he was stupid to feel like this but the sensation was real none the less . |
| 23 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 24 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 25 | the use of field titles , and not just the anachronistic formula ‘ on a Modular Course ’ on all degree certificates ; this was accepted by CNAA for all but the BEd degree — combinations of single fields being prefaced by ‘ Combined studies in … ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ The front door 's a Banham lock I do n't fancy my chances with that but the kitchen door 's just an ordinary job and a couple of bolts . |
| 27 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 28 | Indeed , I believe the Buid to be highly unusual in their condemnation of aggression in their dealings with all but the animal and spirit worlds . |
| 29 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 30 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |