Example sentences of "but [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched day and night , but for a year and a half there were no boats . |
| 2 | This work will not be done in a vacuum , but for a problem that has existed for at least a lifetime a few more months of thought might lead to better outcomes , and ones that will be more readily accepted . |
| 3 | It is normal not only for stallions to seek mares , but for a mare when she comes into season to seek a stallion . |
| 4 | But she fell in love with a gown set low over the bosom , and unadorned , but for a ribbon or two , in a soft peach that set off her copper tresses . |
| 5 | Open Systems World , to be written by Digital Review 's old staff , is apparently picking up some of System Integration 's circulation and advertisers — but for a book that 's supposed to debut in October , as space sales types say they have n't seen hide nor hair of its space reps on the street . |
| 6 | But for a game that imagined it was losing its club-orientated mentality , a game convinced that the staging of high-class football in comfortable surroundings would bring in the punters in their thousands , Old Trafford and Elland Road were bitter disappointments . |
| 7 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 8 | This view depends , of course , on seeing the reader , not as a unique individual , a private being , but as a vessel or meeting point for a variety of cultural codes and literary conventions , and it is in these terms and not those of affective experience that reading and readers would have to be discussed : the reader qua reader is as much the product of a ‘ grammar ’ ( however loosely this notion may now be conceived ) as was the text in classical structuralism . |
| 9 | Therefore , the unwillingness of policemen to define their role in these terms does not show itself in a failure to perform these duties but as a judgement that it is ‘ really ’ the work of others . |
| 10 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 11 | But as a party and as a government we have a duty to encourage families to better themselves and discourage dependency . ’ |
| 12 | It will not normally be used on its own but as a facing or interlayer in composite materials . |
| 13 | I trust that the issue will be considered not simply as a transport or environmental matter , but as a trade and industry matter as well . |
| 14 | It 's important to see care not as a set of isolated services but as a package and to coordinate that effectively . |
| 15 | ‘ But as a teenager and a young man he was more interested in the women . |
| 16 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 17 | The value of each tactic is considered not just for the problem itself , but as an approach that might be used again on a future occasion so that the person can learn how better to cope with future problems ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | This in turn implied that the transition period was now viewed , not as a relatively short , chaotic time , but as an epoch that would develop its own laws of equilibrium . |
| 19 | Dexter was used to the superintendent 's mannerisms but after a second or two , Blanche caught Jane Pargeter 's look of puzzlement , and the detective smiled apologetically . |
| 20 | Forty minutes was enough , but after a shower and a breakfast of fruit and cups of tea I felt very sprightly and strolled out to the row of shops nearby . |
| 21 | In the light of kitchen she sat Maggie down and started to brush gently at her shoulders , but after a minute or so she said , |
| 22 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 23 | She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her , but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground . |
| 24 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 25 | as much as anything , but it 's only cos you 're writing a letter , and you say oh hello you writing a letter to mum , he says no I killed her to come here , you do n't put your foot in it a big way , but after a while because you know nobody there is nice it really makes a lot of difference people |
| 26 | If the beneficiary dies before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but after a determination or disposal of his interest which has taken place after 25/3/74 , then that determination or disposal does not constitute a chargeable transfer . |
| 27 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 28 | But after a week or so things settled down again and the sky and the forest resumed their usual pattern . |
| 29 | It depends upon the weather , but after a week or so the concrete will have dried sufficiently to be treated prior to the introduction of fish and plants . |
| 30 | But after a week or so I was acclimatised , and I would laugh at the discomforts of half-asphyxiated visitors . |