Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some places a poacher my be shot on sight , but for many the risk is worth it as a rhino horn can fetch up to $4,500 ( UD ) on the black market . |
| 2 | Disabled people 's main aim may be just to create art , but for many the current scale of discrimination makes that goal unreachable . |
| 3 | Sponsorship has been kind to Penny and her team but for many the RAC Rally is run on savings … take Richard Roberts … his budget is around four thousand pounds … to save money he and co driver Paul camp out on route … |
| 4 | Wednesday may have started the season like a Second Division side , but for all the shortcomings exposed in the League , they are still much too good for opponents from the Fourth . |
| 5 | But for all the research , Polar Star is unsure of itself , tacking back and forth between a leisurely exposition of this frozen world and the more exacting pace of the whodunnit , with occasional bobs towards the spy story . |
| 6 | But for all the changes , the prime emphasis in the retail market , so far as movies are concerned , still seems to be on the past , and predominantly on the mainstream Hollywood past . |
| 7 | But for all the cover , this was an operation that was sometimes surprisingly visible , and visible as a shambles . |
| 8 | And these final comments , addressed over the child 's death , seem to justify themselves in the sense that the playwright is speaking not only from experience , but for all the parents who dread that this might happen to them . |
| 9 | But for all the insufficiency of Rheinberger 's digestive tract , this is an enjoyable disc . |
| 10 | Before leaving London I saw the sights , from the Tower to Trafalgar Square and I also had a wander through Soho which I remember not so much for its more dubious side but for all the stalls of fruit and vegetables , every type , colour and description . |
| 11 | Since their lavish £200,000 wedding 14 months ago , they have rarely been out of the headlines — but for all the wrong reasons . |
| 12 | But for all the attempted value and variety of their pop it can sound obvious and predictable , just like Gang Of Four sometimes do . |
| 13 | But for all the desirability of the help that may be given in careful marriage preparation , the experience of marriage itself brings to , life many personal challenges . |
| 14 | Electronics industry consultant Bob Heikes reckons he 's likely to hang on to the job , but for all the wrong reasons : ‘ Bull is hopeless , ’ he told the International Herald Tribune — ‘ a new guy is n't going to make any difference . ’ |
| 15 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |
| 16 | Bank managers and accountants tried to depress Finch , but for all the limbo he was in , his spirits were kept up by the strongest curiosity to see what would happen next . |
| 17 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 18 | Also , the Minister must take these powers not just for the privatised subsidiaries but for all the bus operators currently providing services in Scotland . |
| 19 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 20 | But for all the triumphs of the Socratic spirit , its true significance is that it repeatedly prompts a regeneration of art — art in the metaphysical sense which is its widest and deepest sense . |
| 21 | But for all the wrong reasons . |
| 22 | But for all the craft of Leishman and others who have attempted the re-creation of Classical syllabic metres , an English mimicry of Latin echoing Greek is not easily sustained . |
| 23 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 24 | But for all the strengths of its component halves , as an evening in the theatre ( even a short one ) The Banyan Tree seems severely misconceived . |
| 25 | There 's still a long way to go , but for both the major parties in the UK , computer campaigning in the constituencies is now widespread . |
| 26 | Young people with backpacks and habitual travellers may know what it means to go on a journey , but for most the romance of escape begins with deciding where to go on holiday and then getting there as quickly as possible . |
| 27 | But for most the change will ring in new pleasures . |
| 28 | Education can be a route to a narrow range of professions , but for most the prospects are poor . |
| 29 | But for some the undertow is too strong and they are sucked away to navigate unexplored tributaries of the Amazon , encounter the tribes of remotest Papua New Guinea , cross Australia by camel , or Asia by bicycle , or walk to the North Pole — alone . |
| 30 | After a quarter of a century , the old village is much the same … but for some the development killed off a way of life . |