Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One swallow does n't make a summer , and neither is a snowfall a portent of the next ice age , but for management a snowfall can be exaggerated , flogged and manipulated to appear that an ice age is imminent . |
| 2 | As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance . |
| 3 | The short-term lets often suit people such as students when the off-season coincides with their term , but for families the disruption of having to move out for the summer is frustrating . |
| 4 | But for Caroline the trauma had somehow lingered on , unrecognised for years . |
| 5 | But for pluralists the problem is that the need to ensure state expenditure on military hardware and personnel does not stop with these giant corporations . |
| 6 | Er , they 're overall figures , but for instance the F T , which er , the year before seventy five percent of its revenue came from advertising and er in , in ninety one it was down to seventy percent . |
| 7 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 8 | Chelsea already goes to a black majority state school in Arkansas , but for Amy the change was sudden . |
| 9 | but for Oliver the little doggie in the book . |
| 10 | But for parents the cost will not stop at the price of a movie ticket . |
| 11 | But for attitudinism an ethical statement does not state any fact at all , not even the fact that the speaker has a certain attitude ; rather it expresses an attitude , something , so it is contended , which is very different . |
| 12 | But for Bukharin the market had no place within the fully developed socialist economic system once that condition had been achieved . |
| 13 | But for McLaren the enmity was more than ideological . |
| 14 | For people who work outside the home , work provides the main opportunity to form this loose social network but for others the same support is provided by an extended family network of children , grandchildren , brothers and sisters and neighbours . |
| 15 | But for others the food is the star attraction . |
| 16 | But for others the vote may mean they 'll leave the church as a matter of conscience . |
| 17 | But for Mum the Second World War was still present in our streets , the streets where she 'd been brought up . |
| 18 | But for Frances the impact of those few words felt like a cold and heartless rejection . |
| 19 | But for Lawrence the two conflict and in ways which echo the psychoanalytic account of desire : |
| 20 | It might seem that every question about language and sex is a question of sex difference , but for linguists the concept is more limited . |
| 21 | But for Branson a quick death had become preferable to the prospect of prolonged agony . |
| 22 | A lesser novelist would have supplied a built-in sneer , to indicate his obvious superiority , but for Wilson the temptation is not even there to be resisted . |
| 23 | Drawing three-dimensional objects is quite difficult , but for computers the task is almost as easy as drawing a two dimensional object . |
| 24 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 25 | But for GPs the technological revolution is proving a nightmare . |
| 26 | But for Phil every practice session is an away day . |
| 27 | But for Robinson the answer lies elsewhere . |
| 28 | But for Sharon the word care is often misunderstood . |
| 29 | The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob . |
| 30 | They received 11s. in the pound for this but during January the pitch worsened and they were now taking 13/4 in every 20/ of value . |