Example sentences of "[det] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fibre itself will ensure this but the extra fluid may help it a little — certainly the fluid has to come from somewhere , and it will do no harm if it is calorie-free . |
| 2 | The establishment of the UK clearinghouse was one response to this but the British Library Research and Development Department itself , through its deliberations on its programme of research and development in user education , has to some extent been a co-ordinating influence , though with a low profile . |
| 3 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 4 | Mr Johns said he knew nothing of this but the next day Grugel again asked for money and became aggressive . |
| 5 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 6 | I had cut my hand on the gun : it was n't bleeding much but the little finger was bent sideways and I could n't move it . |
| 7 | the second year you increase about as much but the third year you 're gon na bring it right down use hardly anything at all . |
| 8 | He was n't a composer as such but a great translator , not just a violin but also a violinist , an Itzhak Perlman of actors . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 11 | Like that but a bigger version with full keys . |
| 12 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 13 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 14 | They will I a agree with that but the nice thing is that if they can get out there and get at 'em and get another goal that will build their confidence and their stamina and everything up and I thi really do think Alan that they have a chance . |
| 15 | Now you count on that but the next vote then comes in and they 're still not available beds are not available in it , and the next four and the next four so you 'll have , for years you 'll have those out of operation would you like to call it that way and out of production . |
| 16 | The Tories might have got away with that but the latest revelation that the Home Office trawled through 25-year-old confidential files to try to dig up dirt on Mr Clinton is as outrageous as it is mind-boggling . |
| 17 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 18 | Several cars , headlamps painted deep yellow or with brown paper covering all but a central strip of the light , started up and resumed their journey in the wake of the No 18 . |
| 19 | Shoreline dwellers : a king crab ( top left ) , not a crab at all but a prehistoric member of the spider family ; spider crabs ( top right ) and a crab-hunting reef egret . |
| 20 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 21 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |
| 22 | Although Brixton has £180m of borrowings , all but a small proportion of this is borrowed at fixed rates so it does not suffer from higher interest rates . |
| 23 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 24 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 25 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 26 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 27 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 28 | The rigours of the winter 1920–1 and the Kronstadt rebellion stripped away the exuberance and illusions about ‘ war communism ’ for all but a tiny minority within the Bolshevik Party . |
| 29 | Mr Howard said : ‘ All but a tiny minority of authorities have set affordable budgets and council taxes . |
| 30 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |