Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for decades it 's been used as a giant dustbin . |
| 2 | For an essay referencing is extremely important but for exams it 's nt but just get the names in not necessarily the years Okay , when you think of erm any , when you 're revising stuff and you want to learn studies , try and put them in a context . |
| 3 | For many of them , their inability to maintain a safe environment is only temporary , but for others it may be permanent . |
| 4 | For some enterprising footballers like Celtic 's Harry Hood or Aberdeen 's Willie Miller , the pub is a business opportunity run to the highest standards , but for others it can be either a modest earner , an extension of their drinking or a desperate attempt to grab a livelihood from the cinders of football , an industry that has never fully protected the talent it exploits . |
| 5 | It was an alternative to secure employment for some who fit the popular image of the early retired , but for others it was a refuge from economic insecurity in the labour market . |
| 6 | For Sidgwick and for some modern utilitarians ( such as J.J.C. Smart ) recognition of this reduces conflict between utilitarianism and ordinary moral common sense , but for others it is a symptom of a kind of bad faith which is endemic to utilitarianism . |
| 7 | But for females it is best to be as large as can be achieved so as to be able to produce most eggs . |
| 8 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 9 | But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow . |
| 10 | But for foreigners it is different , but they have to pay three times the Austrian fees . |
| 11 | In 1985 , 55% of all people aged over 85 lived alone , but for men it was only 37% while 61% of women were in this position . |
| 12 | But with indexes it 's easier to understand . |
| 13 | It 's an advantage but with cars it 's not really a problem so |
| 14 | No human beings , except the courageous and experienced blind , are able to sense much in a strange place where they can not see , but with rabbits it is otherwise . |
| 15 | But with cats it seems to be too common to be explained in this way . |
| 16 | Well these things may er describe erm sexual behaviour and how to facilitate it , but they ca n't explain it and nor are they really fundamental , because after all okay in mammals males may be the sex defined by the X chromosome , but in birds it 's the other way round in birds it 's the female chromosome and all , in other words , all bird embryos start , start out as male and differentiate into females if they 're going to , whereas in mammals all embryos start out as female and differentiate into males , in so far as those terms have any sense . |
| 17 | ‘ But in adults it 's like a flu that lingers for several weeks . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in some instructions it will be ‘ on ’ but in others it will be ‘ off ’ . |
| 19 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 20 | Glossy dark bronze-green foliage is widely held to be very resistant ; in some places it is , but in others it can look as though a flour sack has burst . |
| 21 | In some groups the use of geometric shapes is predetermined by the coarseness of the weave , but in others it reflects a conscious desire to adhere to traditional forms . |
| 22 | In some cases it is , but in others it is not ; this judgement certainly does not figure amongst the basic set of intuitive judgements on which we base our analyses . |
| 23 | In no other state was the influence of military attachés so great and so formalised as in Germany ; but in others it could on occasion be significant . |
| 24 | So in some ways it 's cheaper insurance but in others it 's erm a bit of a sting . |
| 25 | In men it increased from 59.1 to 113.4 , but in women it remained unchanged ( mean 35.0 ) . |
| 26 | The intensity of the field is generally weak , falling to 10–20% of the initial strength over most of the Earth 's surface , but in places it rises to high values . |
| 27 | Again he misses the answer — which is , of course , ‘ No , only once , — and says with a grave look that usually the dogs see it even in poor visibility , but in white-outs it has been known . |
| 28 | On the morning of August 24 , 79 AD it was a flourishing Roman town going about its daily business , but within hours it lay suffocated by a 20 ft layer of volcanic waste which would preserve it from robbers and vandals until its excavation in the mid-18th century . |
| 29 | They had first closed the door itself , but within seconds it was bristling like a porcupine with glittering bayonets within a few more seconds it had been hacked and splintered to pieces by these bayonets , and now it no longer existed . |
| 30 | She would have fought him then , but within seconds it was too late as his kiss kept her transfixed by its seductiveness . |