Example sentences of "of [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Forest think they got an offside decision out of that but the whistle had er gone before that .
2 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 .
3 In the Warhammer world there is no 100% guarantee of this but the tendency will be there .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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