Example sentences of "but [prep] [adv] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The goal looked good enough to give United the draw as well , but with just a minute to go they cracked . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The late Armand Hammer 's museum , which opened in December 1990 with a lavish $60 million building by Edward Larrabee Barnes ( likened by one critic to a consulate in a Middle Eastern emirate ) , but with only a $36 million endowment , has come under the management of the adjacent University of California at Los Angeles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 10 | He certainly held deep convictions as to the absolute wrongness of the Liberal policies that he opposed , but at least a part of his apparent hostility was assumed for the occasion , a hard line that might secure a better compromise in the end . |
| 11 | And each time we visited the mountains , we would find the Syrians not an inch nor even a metre but at least a mile nearer to Beirut . |
| 12 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 13 | But at least a quarter lived in some kind of poverty , even if the degree of their deprivation stopped short of actual destitution . |
| 14 | Perhaps not a great deal , but at least a glimmer ! |
| 15 | Four divisions of ten may not be the ideal solution for the future of Scottish football — it does n't , for example , address the problem of clubs meeting four times a season — but at least a reduction in the number of games from 44 to 36 will give everyone breathing space . |
| 16 | But at least a call could be justified , as advisable to inform the Countess of the situation vis-à-vis her husband . |
| 17 | You might think there was something wrong with you if you did not enjoy this form of dedicated slavery but at least a woman had someone to share it with : her husband — and that third party in almost every educated parental home , Dr Benjamin Spock . |
| 18 | But at least a lot of players have sampled international competition at their own level and that can only be good for the game . |
| 19 | In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’ |
| 20 | It would half kill her , but at least a remedy existed . |