Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 2 | But for Caroline the trauma had somehow lingered on , unrecognised for years . |
| 3 | Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas , but for Amy the change was sudden . |
| 4 | But for Bukharin the market had no place within the fully developed socialist economic system once that condition had been achieved . |
| 5 | But for McLaren the enmity was more than ideological . |
| 6 | But for Frances the impact of those few words felt like a cold and heartless rejection . |
| 7 | A lesser novelist would have supplied a built-in sneer , to indicate his obvious superiority , but for Wilson the temptation is not even there to be resisted . |
| 8 | But for Robinson the answer lies elsewhere . |
| 9 | But for Sharon the word care is often misunderstood . |
| 10 | They received 11s. in the pound for this but during January the pitch worsened and they were now taking 13/4 in every 20/ of value . |
| 11 | But after Roundhay the connection was more remote . |
| 12 | But throughout Britain the system is one of commercial farming . |
| 13 | There were a funny few minutes about John Major 's working class credentials but like Mills the rest of the act was a bit hackneyed . |
| 14 | But with Auerbach the premise of the bust as substitution for the complete human form seems untenable . |
| 15 | But with Blufton the spell , the sense that he was engaged in some elaborate , magical charade , was broken as soon as he began to speak . |
| 16 | Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century , and changed round the terms , writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed , he proposed a living universe called ‘ Nature ’ described in terms of growth and organic life , which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was ‘ a white paper ’ , with no innate ideas , in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state ; in Locke the mind passively receives impressions from the senses , but in but in Wordsworth the mind actively perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world . |
| 17 | But in Norfolk the weather had improved as the Brize formation of VC10s and a Tristar flew low over Marham . |
| 18 | But in July the Appeal Court quashed the conviction and ordered a second trial . |
| 19 | But in July the commission opted for policies which are disastrous for professional family farms , expensive for taxpayers , unlikely to remove surplus production , and bad for the countryside . |
| 20 | Women could not normally inherit in other ancient Near Eastern countries , but in Israel the ruling is given that brotherless daughters may inherit . |
| 21 | Thereafter prices evened out around the dollars 18 level ( the " minimum " reference price for OPEC oil confirmed in November 1989-see p. 37053 ) , but in December the world market was again temporarily affected ( this time by exceptionally cold weather in North America and by the US military operation in Panama-see pp. 37112-13 ) and in the latter part of that month the Brent crude price rose to over dollars 20 . |
| 22 | International increases in oil prices preceded both recessions , but in Britain the second was advanced and deepened by government policy . |
| 23 | There are parallels here with the beginnings of search in the USA , but in Britain the concept of headhunting , as indeed with other features of modern business practice , was pushed , not pulled . |
| 24 | These facilities differ in all parts of the world , but in Britain the evening class is probably the most accessible form of training . |
| 25 | But in India the technology for this does not exist . |
| 26 | Scotland might order things differently , but in England the rule was that what was not prohibited was permitted and the debate on civil rights was therefore concerned with the balance between the acceptable limits imposed by law and the freedom of action of the individual . |
| 27 | But in Spain the climbing clubs are not properly integrated into the civil protection unit , and their assistance can only be expected at weekends . |
| 28 | People in London and Stockholm may get better suntans , but in Africa the likelihood of drought and famine is magnified many times ; and , as icecaps melt , the sea level will rise , flooding many low-lying areas . |
| 29 | But in Alceste the batteur is close by the stage and holds only one implement , not positioned very high , grasped perhaps near to its end . |
| 30 | But in Russia the bourgeoisie was fatally inhibited from challenging the old order by the spectre of a second revolution , ripening alongside the first : a proletarian and socialist revolution . |