Example sentences of "but [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 32 | But the anti-army writers also showed a need to appeal to the sensibilities of their Tory allies in Parliament . |
| 33 | But the geographical areas served do obviously make a difference . |
| 34 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 35 | In the wild , what matters most is not bullying , which is disruptive and dispersive , but the peaceful bonds of friendship and kinship . |
| 36 | But the 1994 matches will be televised live in their entirety , officials said . |
| 37 | Its importance in the fifteenth century was connected with its position as the centre of Italian trade in England , but the Florentine galleys disappeared from the port after 1478 and the Venetians after 1509 . |
| 38 | Size is often difficult to judge , but the rounded wings of the buzzard are so much shorter that once the sheer length of an eagle 's wings has been experienced , it is impossible to mistake the two . |
| 39 | It scorned the ‘ beat ’ movement with a staged photographic layout under the headline : ‘ THE ONLY REBELLION AROUND : But the shabby beats bungle the job … . ’ |
| 40 | His comment — ‘ I skied a great run — almost perfect ’ — was not exactly vintage Billy Johnson but the Swiss fans ecstatically tolling their cow bells were beyond caring . |
| 41 | But the beneficial effects are often transitory . |
| 42 | But the three-monthly figures pre-date the effect of Black Wednesday in September . |
| 43 | In those cases where not only people , but the actual aeroplanes , boats or ships themselves actually disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 44 | It 's er but the actual tones in it are , are ideal . |
| 45 | Both the Great Western and the Midland were involved in the carriage of produce from the Vale of Evesham virtually all the year round , but the actual cargoes varied according to the time of year . |
| 46 | There 's a rift that grows at that stage in your schooling between , not only white people , but the actual teachers as well . |
| 47 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 48 | The CAA 's fees are not recommendations , but the actual fees charged by the CAA itself . |
| 49 | In the light of this it seems that severance is beneficial in that it stops one party acquiring the whole property in the event of the other 's death , but the actual shares of the parties would have to await determination by the Court ( or agreement ) . |
| 50 | Naturally , the building of the huge Palace of the People could not be hidden from public view , but the actual details its plans or internal designs were never discussed or published in the media . |
| 51 | Now it , it does sound , ninety five per cent sound a lot , but the actual numbers involved are up from a hundred and twenty three to two hundred and forty . |
| 52 | The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not . |
| 53 | The same close-quarters examination confirmed that the underside in general , and the exhaust system in particular , were in good order but the front tyres were only marginally legal and needed replacing . |
| 54 | Looking ahead , over the instruments , there is nothing to see but the front tyres and the track . |
| 55 | Sophia could see the light on in the hall as she came up to Ianthe 's front door , but the front rooms were in darkness . |
| 56 | But the wholesale prices of commercial fuels — power , light and lubricants — rose by 264 per cent . |
| 57 | But the parental attacks which led to the baby 's death were unpredictably ferocious and sudden . |
| 58 | Inevitably a feeling of despair enveloped him and he began to feel quite helpless ; his heart was in his studies and he knew that if he could manage financially he could achieve his academic rewards , but the insufficient amounts of money his father allowed him did n't permit any freedom to relax after his studies had ended . |
| 59 | This self-propelled weapon was not yet a serious threat ; it still had an effective range of less than a mile , but the tiny torpedo-boats which were beginning to make their appearance heralded a whole new range of warships for the future . |
| 60 | She led him along deserted , echoing corridors ; nothing was happening in the whole enormous building , he realized , but the tiny preparations for this one tiny programme . |