Example sentences of "but for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By cost containment , the American media meant that the U S A spends almost twice of national income on health as the U K does , but for no better results overall . |
| 2 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 3 | There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor . |
| 4 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 5 | But for a few hours today there was hope . |
| 6 | The LP is produced by Jessica Corcoran in tandem with the band and coincides with the tail end of their current tour , a sell-out but for a few tickets for their London show at The Kilburn National on April 4 . |
| 7 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 8 | Mr Singh and i drove through the wide streets of New Delhi , empty now but for a few pilgrims washing under the public pumps near the shrine of Nizamuddin . |
| 9 | The finest bronze castings of Shang China and arguably of all time were not made for implements or even weapons , but for the ritual vessels centred on the cult of ancestors . |
| 10 | But for the many guests who lie basking in the sun , around the pool or on the Club 's beach , the most familiar view is the endless expanse of brilliant blue sky . |
| 11 | But for the New Critics art existed in order to convey a meaning , albeit a meaning that no logical discourse is capable of expressing , and attention to matters of form was regarded as the means whereby the non-rational meanings of literature could be uncovered . |
| 12 | He sat on a couch of deerskin , under the awning of his tent , a long , sinewy man in the prime of his powers , forty-eight years old , black of eye and black of hair , but for the first frostings of grey at temple and lip . |
| 13 | County boroughs totally opted out of the surrounding county council 's affairs , but for the other types of subordinate authorities the situation was complicated because they performed some functions for themselves while other functions in their areas , such as education , were run by the county council . |
| 14 | But for the forgotten victims — the wives — there is little official recognition , let alone pressure for reform . |
| 15 | These notions of the automatisation of processes which no longer require close monitoring are described in more detail in Underwood ( 1982 ) , but for the present purposes it is sufficient to note that attention can only be devoted to higher-level activities , such as comprehension , when lower-level activities have become skilled through practice . |
| 16 | Aromatherapy can help many disorders , but for the best results it should form part of a holistic health regime . |
| 17 | There was no wind , no movement , but for the dark shapes of the boats breasting the dock . |
| 18 | Doctor Who 's success ensured no exercising of either of the BBC 's options , but for the regular actors and actresses it meant there was no escape until the end of Year One . |
| 19 | All her hair had been burnt away but for the black roots and her features hideously charred . |
| 20 | But for the real enthusaists it 's the Russians and their East European neighbours which have aroused the most interest . |
| 21 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 22 | But for the small producers : |
| 23 | They now compete , not for comparable resources ( ‘ separate but equal ’ as the phrase went ) but for the same resources in the same labour or housing or educational or other markets . |
| 24 | In view of the universality and range of the interview situation it is not surprising that there has been extensive research , but for the same reasons the research is of little operational consequence . |
| 25 | The sameness of yellow road lights , shaped like faucets , flash black flash upon the desert of the motorway , and then , the bit where the road goes dark , where there is no light at all , but for the torch-like eyes of our own headlights . |
| 26 | John Bunyan wrote of the reading of his youth : " Give me a ballad , a news-book , George on horseback , or Bevis of Southampton ; give me some book that teaches curious arts , that tells of old fables ; but for the holy Scriptures I cared not . " |
| 27 | For Gavarnie is the old headquarters of mountaineering in the Pyrenees , a centre not only for excursionists but for the hard men , aiming for dangerous ascents of the rocks . |
| 28 | I think that clients , as it happens , have benefited but for the wrong reasons as it were . |
| 29 | When he arrives at his destination he can not rely upon finding effective substitutes not merely for the luxuries , but for the common necessaries , which he may have left behind . |
| 30 | But for the true enthusiasts that simply heightened the sense of anticipation . |