Example sentences of "but at [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When they returned to Liverpool Joe , Eileen and Stephen , and John 's brother Mick , had already gone back , but at a family gathering John was soon involved in an argument .
2 One of the classic findings of media research in British election campaigns is Trenaman and McQuail 's ( 1961 ) assertion that ‘ the evidence strongly suggests that people think about what they are told … but at no level do they think what they are told ’ .
3 Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort .
4 But at no stage did he ever approach the status of a great butler .
5 But at no stage did he deny that these conditions are part of the explanation .
6 Wölflinn himself describes the Bernini statues at some length but at no point does he ever mention the subject …
7 There is an oscillation between light and darkness but no particular moment of time when day becomes night or night day ; as I walk across the landscape I may sometimes be on a hill top and sometimes in a valley bottom but at no point does the surface of the earth come to an end .
8 The vendor may have agreed to sell land with vacant possession , but at the date set for completion be unable or unwilling to provide it .
9 The tweedy lady , very county , who suffered from some extreme fungoid disease of her feet , which were wrapped in many layers of polythene and which in a public cinema would have guaranteed her a whole row to herself , but at the NFT caused whoever was unfortunate to have the adjoining numbered seat to retain vivid Aromavision memories of particular films .
10 This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’
11 But at the moment serving with the group of churches in Ealy , Bathyclyn and also with erm part time working in Ealy as the youth worker for the community working partly for Dr Barnados partly for the ULT and Methodist and he 'll acting in it as well in Ealy and sponsored by the Global of the United States .
12 I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children .
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