Example sentences of "but [prep] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some places a poacher my be shot on sight , but for many the risk is worth it as a rhino horn can fetch up to $4,500 ( UD ) on the black market . |
| 2 | But for all the craft of Leishman and others who have attempted the re-creation of Classical syllabic metres , an English mimicry of Latin echoing Greek is not easily sustained . |
| 3 | But for all the desirability of the help that may be given in careful marriage preparation , the experience of marriage itself brings to , life many personal challenges . |
| 4 | But for all the cover , this was an operation that was sometimes surprisingly visible , and visible as a shambles . |
| 5 | Also , the Minister must take these powers not just for the privatised subsidiaries but for all the bus operators currently providing services in Scotland . |
| 6 | But for all the insufficiency of Rheinberger 's digestive tract , this is an enjoyable disc . |
| 7 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 8 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 9 | But for all the research , Polar Star is unsure of itself , tacking back and forth between a leisurely exposition of this frozen world and the more exacting pace of the whodunnit , with occasional bobs towards the spy story . |
| 10 | Bank managers and accountants tried to depress Finch , but for all the limbo he was in , his spirits were kept up by the strongest curiosity to see what would happen next . |
| 11 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |
| 12 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | But for most the change will ring in new pleasures . |
| 14 | After a quarter of a century , the old village is much the same … but for some the development killed off a way of life . |
| 15 | But for some the undertow is too strong and they are sucked away to navigate unexplored tributaries of the Amazon , encounter the tribes of remotest Papua New Guinea , cross Australia by camel , or Asia by bicycle , or walk to the North Pole — alone . |
| 16 | Mr Clinton occasionally lost his temper , but through all the flak he showed remarkable staying power , which his supporters say is a mark of his fitness to occupy the White House 's Oval Office . |
| 17 | To train an infant for the first year is comparatively easy , but after that the child begins to resent authority , and the conscientious mother has to be prepared to fight and win all along the line , in matters small and great . |
| 18 | But after that the tide of fortune will turn in your favour , so that you should end up celebrating some kind of moral or financial victory . |
| 19 | They read the cartoons but after that the reading seems to be fairly limited . |
| 20 | Craiova was made hideous by a huge petrochemical works , but after that the road was flanked by beautiful scenery . |
| 21 | In the ten years after 1727 he managed to redeem £6,500,000 worth of annuities and South Sea stock but after that the fund was " raided " for purposes other than liquidating the public debt . |
| 22 | But after that the goon with the machine guns is going to get the range . |
| 23 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 24 | But after all the trouble that he himself had taken to be friendly , he felt so cross at the way in which Fiver had antagonized their new friends that as he passed Bigwig , he said , " Come and help me to get some sense into him . |
| 25 | Another engine change at Carlisle , No 37010 ex Cardiff Caerleon Depot and off down the WCML for the return trip - a long day , but after all the train took the strain ! |
| 26 | The speaker scraped and clicked a few more times , but after half a minute of no reply the phone was rehooked . |
| 27 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 28 | The registered member may well be a trustee or nominee but of that the company neither knows nor is entitled to let anyone know ; , for ‘ No notice of any trust , expressed , implied or constructive shall be entered on the register or be receivable by the Registrar ’ in the case of companies registered in England and Wales . |
| 29 | But of all the multitude of possibilities , what should we try to measure in the chick ? |
| 30 | But of all the leader writers , only one — in The Morning Star — failed to approve our main conclusions . |