Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The countryside is deserted but for groups of distant yurts which resemble pickable mushrooms . |
| 2 | Most grocery store advertising in the UK appears on Wednesday or Thursday , in advance of the major grocery shopping days of Friday and Saturday , but for groups of smaller , local grocers , like Mace , which have a through-the-week shopping pattern , advertising on Monday or Tuesday , or even on Sunday , makes sense . |
| 3 | There were now far fewer people about : many streets were deserted but for groups of tethered goats fattening for their slaughter on Idul-Zuha . |
| 4 | The arguments for jettisoning the rota system are strong , but for juniors to be enthusiastic about its replacement they need a better understanding of partial shifts and their benefits and disadvantages . |
| 5 | These are the normal fates , but for muscles at least , that pathway is not specified from the beginning but requires signals from the lower vegetal position . |
| 6 | The opera has been finished two years ahead of schedule , but for productions of this scale that time is needed just for design and casting . |
| 7 | And so there is reason to look in Hardy 's poetry not just for allusions to Virgil 's Latin but for echoes of Dryden 's English . |
| 8 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 9 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 10 | So they , so do you think there 's a tendency for Americans still to kind of idealize Wilson , but for Europeans to be a bit more cynical . |
| 11 | At this point , the family probably can not yet afford a high quality modern house , but for reasons of status it still decides to move into a sub-standard , ill-constructed house built with modern materials , a house that turns into an oven during the summer and generates demand for electrically-powered cooling devices . |
| 12 | The Trust welcomes photography in the grounds of its properties , but for reasons of conservation and security and to avoid inconvenience to other visitors , we regret that we can not allow photography of any kind inside our historic buildings . |
| 13 | The Arrowana has representatives in South America ( Osteoglossidae ) , Africa ( Heterotis ) and Southern Asia/Australia ( Scleropages ) , but for reasons of cost and availability , we will only be concerned with the South American species . |
| 14 | But for reasons of its own , Washington in the end did neither . |
| 15 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 16 | But for Anglo-Canadians of my parents ' generation the rich immigrant culture of Toronto is more unsettling . |
| 17 | The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait . |
| 18 | Similar to the Inland Recorded Delivery service , but for items of little or no monetary value , with compensation for loss or damage of £24. £1.90 plus postage . |
| 19 | The courts of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious had constituted major centres of demand not only for peasant surpluses but for items of conspicuous consumption purveyed via emporia like Dorestad and Quentovic . |
| 20 | Industrial Hire Purchase — the same as hire-purchase for personal customers but for items of capital equipment . |
| 21 | In the major conurbations day special schools may be available ( for example , London , Birmingham ) , but for pupils in rural or inaccessible areas weekly or half-termly residence at a special school may still be the only viable option . |
| 22 | Gustave Doré 's mid-nineteenth-century caricature depicts Russian landowners gambling not for money but for bundles of serfs . |
| 23 | But for individuals like Arnold Leese intellectual consistency mattered much less than his hatred of the Jews . |
| 24 | In Jesus 's epoch , Alexandria was the most eclectic , ecumenical and tolerant city in the whole of the Roman Empire — the single most important crossroads of the Mediterranean 's trade-routes and , as such , a kind of central clearing-house not only for goods , but for modes of thought as well . |
| 25 | Nothing quite so staggering happens here but for followers of Cash ( the man , the myth ) this record manages to be inspiring , pointed and impassioned . |
| 26 | But for readers with some knowledge of speech act theory , literary theory , or both , this is bound to be an interesting read . |
| 27 | But for parts of an utterance , 8 or 10 syllables can emerge in a second . |
| 28 | On the test session , subjects in one group continued with this same arrangement but for subjects in the critical experimental condition the stimuli were presented in the contexts in which they had not previously occurred . |
| 29 | The owl species are identified on the figure , but for details of the samples , see Appendix . |
| 30 | But for patients in high EE homes , the continued use of these drugs reduced the relapse rate over a nine-month period among Brown and his colleagues ' sample by one third ( 66 per cent to 46 per cent ) , and in Vaughn and Leff 's sample , by about one half . |