Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Off the record detectives refer to the burglary boom as one of Britain 's few growth industries . |
| 2 | But for the newspaper proprietors , outside competition is not always a problem . |
| 3 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 4 | But for the dressing-up ghosts it just about sends them crazy , after all that bother , finding the right clothes , and often arranging to carry their heads in funny places — I mean not on their necks — and then the lifer just does n't take any notice . |
| 5 | Simple graves were almost obliterated , but for the tin cans blown over , stiffly retaining plastic flowers , and the curling photographs in cellophane tacked to wooden crosses . |
| 6 | But for the Business Studies and Public Relations students on the right in 1986 things looked pretty rosy . |
| 7 | In the summer it had , of course , its share of visitors , but during the winter months , when half the cafés and shops were closed , most of the people one met were in bath chairs , or leaning heavily on some supporting arm . |
| 8 | Even the angle of the helmet is defined ; and the order ends with the instruction : ‘ the strap will be worn under the point of the chin , but during the summer months the strap maybe tucked inside the helmet ’ . |
| 9 | Well , Oxford have been the favourites for months ; they always are , but as the tide changes so do their chances . |
| 10 | The effects are not produced via the sensory organs as electrical impulses , but through the blood vessels as foreign substances absorbed , for example , by inhalation . |
| 11 | Any disregard of this may provide the minority shareholders with a claim under s459 Companies Act 1985 , under which they may complain against resolutions of the company which are for the benefit not of the company as a whole , but of the majority shareholders alone . |
| 12 | But below the mirror images of arts and architecture lurks the threat of extinction — Venice is in Peril . |
| 13 | But throughout the book Hooks stresses the importance of women talking back , speaking out , as ’ a gesture of resistance and affirmation of struggle . ’ |
| 14 | Angelica tried to avoid looking at it , but like the village children who gathered on the bank she found herself almost fascinated . |
| 15 | Most of the soft drinks which children love are stored in aluminium cans , but like the steel ones , not nearly enough are re-cycled each year . |
| 16 | But behind the headline numbers lurked the truth , disguised in a veil of what the property market calls confidentiality clauses and what others call secret deals . |
| 17 | But under the Rent Acts , if a contractual tenancy is terminated , the Acts protect the occupiers from eviction … |
| 18 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 19 | The solution is now ‘ supersaturated ’ , ready and waiting to make crystals , but with no seed crystals to start the process going . |
| 20 | ‘ Aye , ’ replied another , slim and small as a child but with a face centuries old . |
| 21 | I — I do n't know if I was ever so pleased … not only with the presents , but with the kind thoughts of our neighbours . |
| 22 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 23 | But with the record books littered with frustrated goalkeepers who lived in the shadows of a rival , Flowers is right to savour this moment . |
| 24 | But with the summer holidays … and freedom … around the corner the dangers need to be balanced.Crime prevention officers working with children say there are obvious guidelines … |
| 25 | But with the group albums , and this one , there is a level of detail that I want to get which just takes time . |
| 26 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 27 | to look after him , but in the school holidays , you know , it takes two of you to and mind him , because |
| 28 | But in the yuppie neighbourhoods there are queues hundreds of persons long waiting to file in . |
| 29 | But in the trackside wastelands near Stockton , Norton and Billingham the looks on their faces were exactly the same . |
| 30 | But in the trackside wastelands near Stockton , Norton and Billingham the looks on their faces were exactly the same . |