Example sentences of "but [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the many guests who lie basking in the sun , around the pool or on the Club 's beach , the most familiar view is the endless expanse of brilliant blue sky . |
| 2 | Opposition Members believe that the British people have the basic talents and abilities which , with investment in their skills and a programme committed to training , will allow us to map out a better , more secure and more dignified future not for only those already in work but for the many people who will join the labour market in years to come . |
| 3 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 4 | Thus , unless otherwise agreed it is not for the seller to convey the goods to the buyer but for the latter to collect them . |
| 5 | Less happily , but for the same reason , repossessed houses are often auctioned . |
| 6 | They now compete , not for comparable resources ( ‘ separate but equal ’ as the phrase went ) but for the same resources in the same labour or housing or educational or other markets . |
| 7 | In view of the universality and range of the interview situation it is not surprising that there has been extensive research , but for the same reasons the research is of little operational consequence . |
| 8 | As with the TRAINER device IIDA provides training for the user and includes a practice mode , but during the latter the student using IIDA is connected to the DIALOG information system . |
| 9 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 10 | But during the same period the futures price has fallen by just 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Couples are also older than lone mothers , tend to have larger families , but about the same proportion have a youngest child of under school age . |
| 12 | But the anointing , which ye had received of him , abideth in you , and ye need not have any man teach you but as the same anointed teachers you all things , and is truth and is no lie and even as it have taught you , ye shall abide in him . |
| 13 | FIG. 1 The images created by the binocular viewing of a flat , rectangular , fronto-parallel surface either close to the observer ( a ) or far away ( b ) , but of the same overall angular extent . |
| 14 | But despite the many successes , not even his greatest fan probably Newmarket-based trainer Sir Mark Prescott has been inclined to nominate ‘ Honest George ’ as a likely future champion . |
| 15 | No but like the all they do is they keep like , you know , they keep a gun in their car . |
| 16 | But it is coming , and certainly some of the medium-sized shops , perhaps with a couple of two or three outlets but under the same management , where it 's not quite so easy to see when you 're running out of baked beans , are already beginning to take advantage of some of these retailing computers . |
| 17 | Positive transfer was , however , observed by Mackintosh and Holgate and by Siegel , the comparison being made in each case with control subjects that received initial training on a discrimination between stimuli other than those that were relevant in the transfer task but with the latter stimuli being present but irrelevant . |
| 18 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 19 | The potencies work most often without aggravation but with the same curative effects as centesimal potencies . |
| 20 | ‘ Search coils ’ can measure local magnetic fields , but with the same problems as Langmuir probes . |
| 21 | The word organic is being used in two different ways — but with the same etymological root . |
| 22 | Mac came in fifth but with the same time as Richard , the Frenchman , and after a British protest he was allowed to go forward as the track had a nine-lane straight . |
| 23 | Then there 's the New York guitar from Patrick Eggle , several hundred pounds cheaper but with the same ugly-is-beautiful appeal , or if you 're strapped for cash then the new Starfields look hard to beat . |
| 24 | Now we are changing the form of exercise but with the same principle of grasping the situation and the message from a few clues . |
| 25 | ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK : ‘ Sailing On The Seas ’ ( Virgin ) synthetic pop duo of yore back minus Paul Humpreys but with the same old brash , electronic burping — out on Monday |
| 26 | As a black reader of nine years , I have seen within your magazine people of all colours and cultures , but with the same ideals . |
| 27 | 4 Different strategies are often seen at work in children of different chronological ages but with the same reading age . |
| 28 | But with the same rule , I was n't allowed to leave , I could n't leave . |
| 29 | At common law , affray consisted of fighting in public to the terror of innocent bystanders , or the display of force without actual violence but with the same effect on bystanders . |
| 30 | After the Prologue 's plain B flat close , Peter slides up a semitone , B flat to C flat , on the words " the truth " , raising a question ( both musical and verbal ) which is then twisted , in the course of the duet , into a doubt between Ellen 's optimistic E major and Peter 's pessimistic F minor ( a semitone above , but with the same third degree , G sharp/A flat ) . |