Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | But for the Munitions of War Act of July 1915 which enabled the Board of Trade if necessary to impose arbitrated settlements on unwilling employers , the union 's policy of patriotic co-operation must surely have failed and within a month of the passing of that Act the waters were muddied by another development which the union considered to be even more sinister — the demand from the " Reptile press represented by the Daily Mail , Times and associate journals " , for conscription . |
| 3 | But for the donations of Louis the Pious in 817 and of Otto I in 962 we ave texts , the Ludovicianum and the Ottonianum , which have been accepted as genuine . |
| 4 | On his daily visit to the laboratory to look at quality control tests on raw and processed materials , Graham added : ‘ Mills and sliphouses have never been the favourite areas of pottery factories — you either love or hate them — but for the likes of me they are a way of life . ’ |
| 5 | But for the members of these schoolroom societies it is a test within the framework of the official conception of school . |
| 6 | Schools should be seen as a valuable resource , not just for their pupils but for the communities around them . |
| 7 | We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering . |
| 8 | This undoubtedly reflects the complexity and breadth of the Government 's spending , but for the accounts to be of much use the disaggregated figures have to be used . |
| 9 | Birds did it all the time with ease and grace , but for the crews of the bombers that flew from Fenton Bishop aerodrome she knew that to take off meant dry-mouthed apprehension and an ice-cold hand that twisted your guts and made you want to throw up the supper you had neither tasted nor enjoyed . |
| 10 | But for the titles of the books on the shelves , however , Harry felt it would have served for the conduct of almost any other business than that of healing troubled minds . |
| 11 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 12 | Indeed , it is doubtful if , but for the forces of repression , the higher social life of the human species could ever have become what it has . |
| 13 | No longer were our proposals for long term projects just reports on pieces of paper ; they were real — and not just for us , but for the children of Vietnam . |
| 14 | My concern is for the future , not just for ourselves , but for the children in our schools and colleges , and in all centres of education . |
| 15 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , what 's the window for but for the bairns at Christmas , because the grown-ups rarely stop and look at it . ’ |
| 17 | The Welsh losses were but light , but for the archers of Welsh blood in our forces , who are all dead or deserted with the enemy . ’ |
| 18 | But for the clients of the Thatcher order in the south and east of the nation , it was more than enough . |
| 19 | Could it be that the stripes are intended not for the eyes of lions but for the eyes of other zebras ? |
| 20 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |
| 21 | The United States sought to maintain an atomic energy monopoly — both military and civilian — as a God-given right ; but for the purposes of conventional warfare they needed the support of allies and were prepared to buy international collaboration with superficially altruistic aid programmes . |
| 22 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 23 | Two points if you mentioned praying , reading the Bible , knowing God or anything along those lines , but for the purposes of this chapter you get a score of 5 … yes , 5 points , if you mentioned respecting and caring for other people . |
| 24 | The list of oral skills required for business is long , but for the purposes of illustration some of the more important are listed below : |
| 25 | But of course it is only invariant in a special sense : the author is free to order his universe as he wants , but for the purposes of stylistic variation we are only interested in those choices of language which do not involve changes in the fictional universe . |
| 26 | v. Stanford said that the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher does not extend to making the owner of land liable for the consequences of the escape of a dangerous element brought on the owner 's land by another person , not for the purposes of the owner but for the purposes of that other person . |
| 27 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 28 | These call-slips , as submitted , already contained much of the information required , but for the purposes of the Survey additional information was added to them both by the members of staff to whom they were submitted , and by fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who physically examined the requested items before their delivery to readers . |
| 29 | But for the men on the shop floor , the new technology presented a difficult choice — either learn new ways , or face redundancy , Those who made the transition found the new working environment very different . |
| 30 | A list of the most important mosaics in each sequence should include the following : ( i ) in that of octagonal panelled designs , all of those so described in appendix E but for the mosaics from Fordington High Street , Dorchester ; and Dyer Street , Cirencester ( these , although showing 3 x 3 arrangements of octagons , suggest , in their decoration , rather different concerns to those illustrated elsewhere ) ; ( ii ) in the sequence of square and rectangular panelled grid arrangements , the four examples mentioned above , plus other possible examples from the Three Cups Inn site ( Barnard 's garden ) , Colchester ( pI . |