Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [noun pl] it " 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 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 7 | But behind the scenes it has been very different . |
| 8 | But behind the scenes it was a different story . |
| 9 | But behind the scenes it is one operation , with Taubmans and Cromadex staff interchanging job functions . |
| 10 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |
| 11 | By his waiver he had lost his right to regard the contract as repudiated on March 20 , but in the circumstances it was a condition of his waiver that delivery should take place as soon as possible . |
| 12 | But in the circumstances it seemed better to remain silent , particularly with Rohan Saint Yves marching grimly at her shoulder like some gaoler . |
| 13 | A writer or a painter can control his work , but in the movies it 's different . |
| 14 | Nobody knows the true measure of that inflation , but in the cities it is something in the region of 15–20% a year , and rising . |
| 15 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 16 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 17 | Onassis called the island a heaven on earth , but to the Royals it was just a huge playground . |
| 18 | To Western eyes this method seemed restricted and undemocratic , but to the Soviets it was considered an orderly method of proceeding compared to the apparent chaos of Western politics . |
| 19 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 20 | It was in fact the little river Enborne , twelve to fifteen feet wide and at this time of year two or three feet deep with spring rain , but to the rabbits it seemed immense , such a river as they had never imagined . |
| 21 | The police authorities might look askance at the bottle of beer but to the constables it was seen as a legitimate reward for a little extra service . |
| 22 | I do n't know what happened , but over the years it was me who came to the band 's aid when it was needed . |
| 23 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 24 | Butler and Stokes write , " Partisanship over the individual 's lifetime has some of the quality of a photographic reproduction that deteriorates with time : it is a fairly sharp copy of the parents ' original at the beginning of political awareness , but over the years it becomes somewhat blurred , although remaining easily recognizable . " |
| 25 | ours is like that solid , well his is split , the idea that is you opened it like that , so when you push your others on , it has to compress it and it holds , but over the years it 's er the body |
| 26 | but over the years it 's got loose and you 've probably fiddled and it did broken |
| 27 | After 1945 productivity growth soared to as much as 4% a year , but by the mid-1970s it was back on the historical , 2% , trendline . |
| 28 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 29 | But by the mid-1960s it had become evident that the post-war promise of unlimited prosperity and the reduction of class conflict was illusory . |