Example sentences of "but [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different cells , such as blood cells , nerve cells , and muscle cells , make up the various tissues and organs of the body , but the diversity of cell types is superimposed on a common plan : each cell consists of a nucleus , which is the seat of the chromosomes , the genes , and the genetic material in general ; and which is surrounded by cytoplasm , whose constituents provide the environment in which the genetic potential is actualized . |
| 2 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 3 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 4 | Gabriel , the messenger of the Annunciation , had been an angel of life and joy ; but the angel of death was a familiar and sombre concept in Christianity , as in Judaism and Islam . |
| 5 | The receipt a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business but the receipt of such a share , or of a payment contingent on or varying with the profits of a business , does not of itself make him a partner in the business . |
| 6 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 7 | But the continuation of the Cold War and Europe 's reluctance to surrender American military protection , meant that substantial amounts of US military aid and large numbers of US troops became committed to the Continent on a permanent basis after the Korean War . |
| 8 | Neo-classical models of the labour market contend that equilibriating mechanisms such as migration should work to eradicate spatial variations in unemployment ( Gleave and Palmer , 1980 ) , but the continuation of wide regional variations in rates of joblessness through the 1980s suggests that these mechanisms are not working very efficiently ( Gleave and Sellens , 1984 ; Green et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | But the description of society progressively erodes the agency of the individual who is inserted into a socially given context of institutions and roles . |
| 10 | In this case , it turned out not to be the theory at fault but the description of the initial conditions , which did not include a consideration of the yet-to-be-discovered planet Neptune . |
| 11 | But the description of these pilgrimages in Philo ( De spec . |
| 12 | But the Ministry of Defence says seventy-six civilian workers will still be made redundant . |
| 13 | Her owner , Alan Ayres , claimed she was hit by a submarine , but the Ministry of Defence denies this . |
| 14 | The emperor 's antics on stage embarrassed the Roman Senate , but the opening of membership of that august body to Greeks led to an irreversible improvement in the standing of Greeks within the Roman Empire . |
| 15 | Clearly , you will not be able to insert the details of the title , but the address of the property , the date , the consideration , the parties and any special provisions as mentioned above can be included in exactly the same way as if the land were registered . |
| 16 | Nowadays a modern road crosses the Glenshane Pass , and a forest has been planted across from the pub , but the tradition of hospitality begun in the little farmhouse continues to this day . |
| 17 | His attempt failed , but the Treaty of Bretigny was concluded which gave Edward sovereignty over Calais and the whole of Aquitaine , almost a quarter of France . |
| 18 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 19 | At Bury St Edmunds the franchise was vested in the thirty-seven members of the corporation , but the complexion of the electorate could only be altered when a vacancy occurred naturally in their ranks . |
| 20 | But the popularity of The Hamsters with the younger generation is undeniable , Slim said : ‘ I 'm finding that teenagers are creating a resurgence of interest in music played by human beings rather than the dance music made by guys playing keyboards with one finger . |
| 21 | The provision reflects that the normal remedy for misrepresentation is rescission but the excessiveness of this remedy is mitigated under s2(2) of the Act . |
| 22 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 23 | Robert Fleck , Chelsea 's £2.1 million signing , scored his third goal of the season to steal the glory , but the clutch of young talent at the club deserve wider recognition . |
| 24 | Its hindquarters squatted comfortably on the ground but the rest of it , from its fifth vertebra , was missing . |
| 25 | But the rest of Mr Foster 's vote looks soft , with many of the 1987 intake of Labour MPs switching their support to Mr Davies in protest at what they see as Mr Foster 's lax disciplinary regime over the parliamentary party . |
| 26 | I expect restaurateurs will be itching to copy Jean-Paul Gaultier 's extraordinary staff uniform with the fork epaulette , but the rest of the details are ingredients for thought only . |
| 27 | Moscow and Petrograd papers were allowed to continue at the same volume but the rest of the press was to be reduced eventually to 232 papers , 158 of them guberniia and 74 uezd . |
| 28 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
| 29 | Paris fashions may be just for the rich , but the rest of us can enjoy beauty products from the designers . |
| 30 | But the rest of the act lacks this savagery and Posner should surely have aimed for more laughs earlier — at present the audience only relaxes , by the usual process of familiarity , around the half way mark . |