Example sentences of "but at [art] [noun] the " in BNC.
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1 | But at a stroke the Chancellor has severely dented our efforts . ’ |
2 | But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short . |
3 | But Jesus ' criticisms were in fact directed not at the laws , but at the way the rabbis had interpreted them . |
4 | The program runs continuously in ‘ film mode ’ but at the beginning the teacher sets the level of difficulty and the time-delay before the correct answer appears ; a sequence of randomly generated fractions follows . |
5 | But at the moment the Masters looks like being a very short tournament for me . |
6 | There are a number of reasons why males might be more vigilant than females , but at the moment the evidence supports three hypotheses . |
7 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
8 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
9 | So I , I would n't be entirely suspicious of an of annuities , but at the moment the er the erm temporary rates are n't too good . |
10 | Normally , the regions and the north-west suffer badly , but at the moment the south is suffering . |
11 | It is difficult to appreciate it now in the liberated 80's , but at the time the worst thing an unmarried girl could do was get pregnant , and the worst news a mother could hear from her daughter was , ‘ I 'm going to have a baby ! ’ |
12 | With the advantage of hindsight , we can take stock of the position at this point , but at the time the Colonel had only runners to keep him in touch with his headquarters and forward Troops , whose wirelesses had been knocked out . |
13 | Membership of the Founders ' Trust had changed frequently in the quest to find more women , working-class people and blacks , but at the time the prospectus was issued the original five Founders — Lowe , Walsh , Cooper , Sadgrove and Power — had been joined by a mixture of others . |
14 | At this distance , we may find Balboa 's antics in the surf laughably pretentious ; but at the time the sighting of the Mar del Sur , as he felt compelled to christen the new sea , was a formidable discovery indeed : the implications of its swift and secure passage into the hands of Spain were profound in the extreme . |
15 | But at the time the car was being hired , Mr Stratton was on his way to Didcot Railway Centre — of that fact there can be no doubt whatsoever . |
16 | But at the time the government decided that it was perhaps the lesser of two evils , especially when all the anticipated dam-aging domestic and foreign implications of refusal were taken into account . |
17 | Their story was first revealed in The Northern Echo earlier this year , but at the time the couple wanted to remain anonymous . |
18 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
19 | Like with the previous meeting to discuss the self-appraisal , the report was considered page by page , but at the end the chairperson asked the head to make some recommendations . |
20 | Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced . |