Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision was crucial to those Britons who had now resolved to take up arms against Rome if necessary , but for the Druids it was now simply a matter of life or death . |
| 2 | Some find that they get better treated in there than they do outside , but for the others it 's just rubbish . |
| 3 | Many of these were destined to become miners in their turn , but for the girls it was the problem of finding a good husband and the inevitable hardship of raising a family . |
| 4 | It may not quite be a Booker Prize contender is in itself but for the memories it brings back it is a wonder . |
| 5 | Controversy follows the rugby men around of course , but for the fans it 's carnival time , while the international team wait for England . |
| 6 | The consequences for the animal are ultimately identical , but for the humans their actions are couched in a class-ridden dressing of either romanticism or oafish brutality . |
| 7 | His head expanded , the facial features flattening , but for the eyes which popped from their sockets . |
| 8 | But for the candidates themselves it is perfectly horrid . |
| 9 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 10 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 11 | This , posed by the Nobel Laureate economist Wassily Leontief , asks , not about the fate of stable-hands , ostlers , and grooms , but about the horses themselves . |
| 12 | Naturally he 's keen to learn all there is to learn about the business , not just the financial side , but about the programmes we put out , and that 's where you come in . |
| 13 | He wrote home often , trying to keep his family 's spirits up , but between the lines one could read that life was not good . |
| 14 | With his naked eye Joseph had glimpsed only a faint smudge of coastline , but through the glasses he was able to see more clearly some of the rocky peaks of the thousand-mile-long mountain spine that linked the rich southern rice lands of the Mekong delta and Saigon with the fertile plain of the Red River around Hanoi in the north . |
| 15 | The First World War curtailed his ambitions but after the hostilities his cars were at their peak and invincible . |
| 16 | But after the boys they seemed tiresome : too demanding ; wanting love as well as sex ; too many ideas about how it should be done , and which position they liked best , and whether they came or not . |
| 17 | But of the policies themselves — in other words , of the ‘ affairs ’ — he remembered almost nothing . |
| 18 | As maltsters we must not only be aware of our sales but of the customers themselves — here in Scotland we are waiting for the upturn . |
| 19 | How can we , confronted by dangers not of today and tomorrow , but of the generations which lie ahead , contemplate with equanimity the prospect of our population , already small compared with some of our competitors , steadily dwindling , above all in the younger spheres of life ? ’ |
| 20 | In the course of this reading there can be pauses for discussion at appropriate points , when carefully chosen questions can be introduced to explore possible failures in the children 's understanding , not just of terms and ideas but of the interrelationships which the syntactic structures convey . |
| 21 | He would talk not only of their vocation to the ministry but of the books which they were reading and the circumstances of their family . |
| 22 | But of the colours we 've got here in this list purple is the one that has the most impact , followed by blue |
| 23 | But despite the comments I flew off to Geneva last summer ( with a very ‘ full pack ’ ) and then on by train to Houches — the start and finish of the ‘ Tour Du Mont Blanc ’ ( TMB ) . |
| 24 | Like the chansons they are permeated with the stylistic influence of the Italian forms and show delight in the bawdy , the roistering , and the comic , but unlike the chansons they lack poetry , elegance , and lightness . |
| 25 | The first impression is rather like an American city , with the clusters of skyscrapers ( some half-built ) in the ‘ down-town area ’ , but underneath the skyscrapers there are some nice little squares and open spaces full of beautiful exotic trees and lush grass . |
| 26 | But like the flyovers which effortlessly criss-cross the city above the congested streets , there is another Cairo removed from the distress of the slums . |
| 27 | But behind the scenes it has been very different . |
| 28 | But behind the scenes it was a different story . |
| 29 | But behind the scenes it is one operation , with Taubmans and Cromadex staff interchanging job functions . |
| 30 | I said there was nothing else in the safe but behind the books there was a cardboard box — rectangular , like a shoe box , but longer . ’ |