Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 2 | But for now the army is prepared to watch and wait . |
| 3 | But for now the crusader 's quiet . |
| 4 | But for now the company are content to be doing well by being a cut above the rest . |
| 5 | But for now the family favorite remains the pig , who 's always welcome inside , providing she remembers her manners . |
| 6 | But for now the family favorite remains the pig , who 's always welcome inside , providing she remembers her manners . |
| 7 | But for now the search for Planet X is futile . |
| 8 | But for once the weather was fine , the place was right on the other side of the airfield on the edge of open country , so we wandered about a bit , picking wild flowers and so on , and on the way back in the truck who should we see approaching in the distance , on foot , but our old pal Flt Off Gregory . |
| 9 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 10 | But for once the spotlight wo n't be on Paul Malone 's form team Ards , chasing a League Cup and Bass Cup double . |
| 11 | Such communications may clearly show signs of similarity to our own human allocation of emotions and feelings — anger , affection , dominance and so on — but of how a chimpanzee actually feels anger , we have little comprehension . |
| 12 | No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion . |
| 13 | The goal looked good enough to give United the draw as well , but with just a minute to go they cracked . |
| 14 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 15 | Joining General Howard and Major Wood were three easterners , described by Monteith 's wife as , ‘ kings of finance but with not a speck of Indian sense , experience or knowledge ’ . |
| 16 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
| 17 | Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved . |
| 18 | You could be an intruder , an interloper , but with only the sound of your bubbles escaping and wobbling upwards , you are merely a privileged observer , watching but not touching . |
| 19 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 20 | Inserting the offending books in canisters of negatively polarised octiron and sinking them in the fathomless depths of the sea was one ( burial in deep caves on land was earlier ruled out after some districts complained of walking trees and five-headed cats ) but before long the magic seeped out and eventually fishermen complained of shoals of invisible fish or psychic clams . |
| 21 | But before then The Battle of the Atlantic Suite will have been released on compact disc , depicting a Murmansk convoy in the dark days of the war . |
| 22 | In France the LFA is divided into 4 zones ( plus the Article 3(5) areas ) ; in the UK there are now 2 zones but until recently no zonation was made in spite of considerable variation in the level of natural handicap . |
| 23 | Over the past five years the executive information system has established itself as niche software in this area , but until recently the price of even PC-based EIS has prohibited their use by all but the major groups British Gas , Caledonian Airways , and the Kwik Save group , to name a few . |
| 24 | But until now the Government has been reluctant to take up their case . |
| 25 | Mr James said : ‘ There has always been numerous safety management regulations in engineering but until now the administration side of the business has largely been ignored . |
| 26 | The vinyl may harden and crack after 10 to 15 years , but until then the bed will be just as comfortable as the day you bought it . |
| 27 | In the end , the best ambassadors will be its own graduates , but until then the support of its friends both in and outside Africa will be invaluable . |
| 28 | But from tomorrow the House of Commons should open the way for the first national lottery , making money for sport , the arts and charities . |
| 29 | The pressure to deregulate came therefore not only from outside but from inside the Stock Exchange . |
| 30 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |