Example sentences of "but [prep] [det] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 2 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 3 | But for all Protestants it is the record of scriptures which is crucial . |
| 4 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 5 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 6 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |
| 7 | Research is continuing into alternative uses of straw — but for most farmers it 's a waste product . |
| 8 | For Iranians he was charismatic , but for most foreigners he seemed rather strange . |
| 9 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
| 10 | But for some women it 's the preferred option . |
| 11 | The evidence will usually be contained in a written report , but for some students it may be more suitable to present this evidence orally . |
| 12 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
| 13 | But for some variables we do , and some economists have used the available data to carry out these tests of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 14 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 15 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 16 | For a few horrible moments I thought the motor would n't fire , but after several pulls it caught , then I just hooked my overnight bag over one shoulder , took the tiller and made for the shore , which looked so close that I felt I could have swum across . ’ |
| 17 | But of all diseases they are especially prone to chest-disease , to pneumonia , phthisis , bronchitis , and asthma . |
| 18 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Dalmatian cities changed hands many times , but despite these upheavals they enjoyed long periods of prosperity and their commerce and their arts flourished . |
| 19 | RIGHT This Norfolk Terrier may look like a ‘ toy ’ dog , but like all terriers it is a first-class ratter , and was developed as a working dog on farms . |
| 20 | ‘ People who have n't seen my ( early ) movies are better off than I am … but like all actors I needed the work . |
| 21 | But like all bulldozers he was ponderous and slow to turn . |
| 22 | But under these circumstances it must , from the nature of things , be at least an even chance that the jury called upon to find a publisher guilty may sympathise with his language … as fair and laudable criticism of official errors . |
| 23 | ‘ Plans fail for lack of counsel , but with many advisers they succeed . ‘ |
| 24 | Er Aaron can put his other gloves on , but with those ones they seemed to take twice as long to put on |
| 25 | Wordwrapping is normally automatic , but with some programs you may need to give an additional Format command to tidy the edited text . |
| 26 | Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus . |
| 27 | It was hard — might possibly have been cruel but with most pupils it worked . |
| 28 | But in such circumstances they are all we have . |
| 29 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 30 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |