Example sentences of "at the [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew my address at the university but had not written . |
| 2 | And Queen 's hope that they will be joined by other top quality players who are currently studying at the university but play with other club sides . |
| 3 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
| 4 | The barrage initially had been aimed at the civilians but Maj Waters said as it got closer to the convoy , two trucks had been damaged . |
| 5 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 6 | Among the outgoing ministers were Miriam Santiago Defensor , the Agrarian Reform Secretary , and Reinerio Reyes , the Transport and Communications Secretary , who had tackled corruption at the ports but had failed to alleviate worsening traffic problems . |
| 7 | Looking at all the , at the stuff but the trouble is you 've got ta find somewhere to put it all have n't you ? |
| 8 | I did n't look at the denomination but there was no doubt it would have been high . |
| 9 | Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path . |
| 10 | Mr Austin said little at the inquest but told police in an earlier statement he had been squeezed off the road three times by the coach onto the central reservation . |
| 11 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 12 | Llanelli went into the 1992 at the top but two consecutive defeats at the hands of Newbridge ( 13–9 ) and at home to Bridgend ( 17–12 ) saw The Scarlets slip back to third . |
| 13 | Avoid width at the top but create volume at the chin — do not wear your hair shorter than chin level . |
| 14 | These reforms created a service which was controlled at the top but left some regional autonomy in relation to the allocation of funding and service organisation ( see Klein , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | In one he 's in a lift that does n't stop at the top but keeps going into a world of claustrophobia and vertigo . |
| 16 | The attitude of men — not just the middle-aged grey-suits at the top but increasingly of young grey-suits who put their career above that of their partners ' — came in for some stick . |
| 17 | It 's at the top but the lift you pick up at the bottom now . |
| 18 | Beehive Variety Ltd has already spent £175,000 on improvements at the hall but Darlington council is still unhappy about safety arrangements . |
| 19 | She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret . |
| 20 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 21 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 22 | I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast . |
| 23 | Some of these materials will be used for periods of presentation and exposition , not only at the beginning but at helpful points during the programme . |
| 24 | well I did n't used to , I used to have one A at the beginning but of course , it was impractical because the there were n't enough booklets to go round . |
| 25 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 26 | The practical point , of course , is never to parade all the facts at the beginning but to use them as a military commander might unleash the cavalry squadrons he has kept hidden below the brow of the hill . |
| 27 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 28 | then the eyes would be something you 'd also confront at the beginning but they 're equally important for the fox actually walking are n't they ? |
| 29 | Not just at the beginning but throughout what may prove to be a long and difficult journey of recovery . |
| 30 | If one grain of poison , red arsenic , white arsenic , the juice of the poppy or any other damnable philtre is here , then you will answer for it , not at the Guildhall but before King 's Bench ! |