Example sentences of "but [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 2 | And I 've known well in between but in between times like Christmas time and |
| 3 | I mean , the seats come out so that wheelchairs can go in but in between times it 's twenty seats you see . |
| 4 | I mean , the seats come up so that wheelchairs go in , but in between times it 's twenty nine seats |
| 5 | But in between vehicle two and vehicle one there 's a reasonable distance , and the distance is in fact seventy five feet . |
| 6 | But in between meals , for tea and whenever they went out Jill relied on Farley 's Rusks because she knew it was a name she could trust . |
| 7 | But in between Benjamin Titford was offering beds for the night to paying guests . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But along with change is a commitment to the values that have kept us operating successfully as a group for over 200 years — service , quality , innovation — all these things and more . |
| 9 | But along with Oxford United they 're out of the new Anglo-Italian Cup Competition … |
| 10 | The three-times Wimbledon champ has quit playing now , but along with husband Andy Mill she was keen to see some of today 's big names in action . |
| 11 | But down to business … |
| 12 | This legislation had been hailed as a powerful weapon with which to seize drug barons ' fortunes but up to May last year police and Customs investigators had only been able to confiscate £11 million . |
| 13 | Those who bought the Cabinet Cyclopedia therefore got a rather odd view of zoology , conservative in its types and symbols but up to date in its appreciation of J. V. Thompson 's work , and rarely dull . |
| 14 | Complex partial seizures usually arise from the temporal lobe , but up to 30% may arise from other sites , in particular the frontal lobe . |
| 15 | Thalassiothrix longissima ( characterized by long straight to twisted cells , only 1.5–5μm wide but up to 4mm long ) is described as a cosmopolitan species with a distribution ranging from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific , North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea . |
| 16 | None are as good as conventional culture , and though their specificity is good the sensitivity is relatively poor ( up to 60% in total but up to 90% in heavy carriage ) . |
| 17 | The individual frustules in this example are between 3 and 5μm wide but up to 3mm long . |
| 18 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 19 | but up in Scotland Glasgow won 64-to 44 … it 's Swindon 's last meeting of the year at Blunsdon tomorrow … and they 're defending a season long unbeaten home record |
| 20 | Neighbourhood Watch The Neighbourhood Watch has been up and running in the Baberton Mains Estate for some time but up in Juniper Green things have been much slower . |
| 21 | Neighbourhood Watch The Neighbourhood Watch has been up and running in the Baberton Mains Estate for some time but up in Juniper Green things have been much slower . |
| 22 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | Jenny went to school at a tiny schoolhouse in the dale attended mostly by farmers ' children , but out of school she had no one at all to play with , so she had to amuse herself as best she could . |
| 24 | He had been going regularly , but out of courtesy . |
| 25 | Early in the morning , in the grey cold light that precedes the rising sun , he positioned himself in trees to the east of the lake but out of sight of it . |
| 26 | But out of sight in the galley , she gripped the rail in front of the cooker to steady herself and choked back tears of rage and frustration . |
| 27 | She suddenly realised that fitzAlan had turned his horse back into the forest , along a parallel course with the river , but out of sight of the small hamlet . |
| 28 | But out of sight at the other end of the course , Mr Hill had also come to grief . |
| 29 | The old rebellion was squeezed out by the pressure of survival , and the ‘ young ones ’ conformed to create a new world , not out of spiritual charity , but out of silicon chips . |
| 30 | But out of love brought ice-age chill , endless snow wastes where wind tossed smoky columns of snow eighty foot high ; from these mists lumbered a gallery of primitive animals , blood lust and need raging like her soul . |