Example sentences of "but for [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 2 | But for Caroline the trauma had somehow lingered on , unrecognised for years . |
| 3 | Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas , but for Amy the change was sudden . |
| 4 | But for Bukharin the market had no place within the fully developed socialist economic system once that condition had been achieved . |
| 5 | But for McLaren the enmity was more than ideological . |
| 6 | But for Frances the impact of those few words felt like a cold and heartless rejection . |
| 7 | A lesser novelist would have supplied a built-in sneer , to indicate his obvious superiority , but for Wilson the temptation is not even there to be resisted . |
| 8 | But for Robinson the answer lies elsewhere . |
| 9 | But for Sharon the word care is often misunderstood . |