Example sentences of "but [subord] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London we passed through , on our way to and from school , but except during the half-term " long leave " from Eton we rarely spent a night there . |
| 2 | Once it had had a lawn and trees and borders but except for a small area , testament to one chap 's enthusiasm for vegetables , it was , says Mrs Hewer , ‘ quite ungardened ’ . |
| 3 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 4 | Retirement migration is an important component , but except for a few areas its contribution to population growth has been smaller than that of other age groups , not just pre-retirement moves but also those of younger working age and their families ( Warnes and Law , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | But if at the eight-cell stage the embryo was separated along the plane of the third cleavage into two groups of four cells , then each of these two fragments developed quite differently . |
| 6 | But if on the other hand the curtilage were particularly large , erm then er it it were otherwise unbuilt er it would not of necessity form part of the built area of the settlement , if the situation were on the periphery . |
| 7 | Such a problem would not arise in the perfect capital market scenario sketched out above ( although if the qualification provided new information about the distribution of cash flows , there might be an interdependence between the qualification and asset prices ) but if in the real world the qualification caused investors and creditors to withdraw funds , refuse lines of credit or otherwise alter their behaviour , then the qualification might indeed be a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 8 | But if in the maintained schools teachers become more like civil servants , this will afford an additional motive for many parents to move into the independent sector , valuing as many do the overall moral and social responsibility for their pupils that such schools assume . |
| 9 | Not out of contempt , but because under the present circumstances , they 're a killer — people emerge exhausted ; you ca n't get artistic satisfaction . |
| 10 | The driver could have applied the brake but because of a defective ratchet , for instance , the brake could have slipped and as a result would not be effectively set . |
| 11 | This occurs not so much because the engineers are callous , but because of a blinkered approach by all parties . |
| 12 | Instead , it is argued that they must be " impelled towards them not out of fear and guilt but because of a positive desire to build a better life for students , themselves and other members of society . |
| 13 | Not through choice , she insisted , and this was the nub of her case , but because of an unfortunate accident . |
| 14 | Jackie Stewart was easily recognizable on the starting grid , but because of the distinguishable Stewart tartan band across his helmet . |
| 15 | But because of the parlous state of the National Insurance Fund ( largely caused by unemployment ) , NI contributions for employees will increase . |
| 16 | But because of the industrial importance of nineteenth-century Britain , and because of its provincial vigour , the BAAS was particularly prominent . |
| 17 | Emily Lloyd , Whoopi Goldberg , daryl Hannah and Whitney Houston were amoung the dozens of rich and famous thronging the stage at Nelson Mandela 's 70th birthday party — an event shocking not just because of the numbers of celebrities involved , but because of the sheer diversity of its star-studded line-up . |
| 18 | AREA A at Crew 's hole , is 4 hectares currently owned by a housing developer , but because of the former industrial use as a Tar Distillery , may suffer from severe pollution problems . |
| 19 | Whatever the reasons for the latter , Labour was able to fill the political vacuum created , not as an automatic or natural beneficiary , but because of the electoral advances gained from growth of the trade unions . |
| 20 | An early shift was when the parish council in Stogursey , the only village within the official power station evacuation area , registered its opposition , not just because of the feared disruption , but because of the increased risk of an accident . |
| 21 | But because of the general economic climate , you may still feel as though you must manage on a tight budget . |
| 22 | But because of the general volatility of the astrology , anything that is weak will wilt under the pressure . |
| 23 | But this was not due , it is suggested , to the absence of any proprietary interest on their part , but because of the restrictive attitude of the law towards the recovery of pecuniary loss which is not the consequence of a tangible , physical injury . |
| 24 | It does not provide a resolution of the conflict in either psychological or social terms , but because of the aesthetic coherence of the novel , the problem itself is stated more forcefully than it is in either of the two previous works . |
| 25 | Similar behaviour was also obtained with fully interactive ozone , but because of the radiative coupling of the ozone field to the dynamical evolution it was not possible to identify unambiguously the contributions of heterogeneous and homogeneous chemistry . |
| 26 | Our cell culture experiments do not support this suggestion as they did not show the synergy between EGF and TAGH that would be predicted , but because of the inhibitory effect of TAGH alone at the concentrations used , they can not refute this possibility . |
| 27 | In my view the weakest sounds in the A4 are its overdrive and distortion , not because of the amount of effect available , but because of the various voicings on offer . |
| 28 | Intertidal limestone solution is at a much higher rate , 100 mm ( 4 in ) per 1000 years , but because of the low sea levels this could not really be expected to destroy reefs . |
| 29 | ’ This is not because the people have changed their minds but because of the increasing complexity of government , requiring more and more administrative devolution , and more powers to be given to the Scottish Office . |
| 30 | Literature , usually the major part of English in the grammar schools , has received the most severe overhauling , but because of the current unacceptability to many educators of a ‘ middle-class ’ curriculum for all our pupils , every activity in English has been given a different set of emphases . [ … ] |