Example sentences of "but [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A facial sauna is a deep cleaning treatment which is good for all skin-types , but especially for blemished and congested skin .
2 Libraries are not used for general scanning-type purposes but only for specific tasks .
3 Among stockbrokers , Smith New Court and UBS Phillips & Drew — which will also trade foreign exchange , gilts and bonds — will keep phone lines open all night but only for institutional clients .
4 ( In fairness to Rollin he does allow that such rights may be breached , but only for life-or-death reasons .
5 There is now a through route underground between Gaping Gill and Ingleborough Cave but only for brave men .
6 But not for real , I hasten to point out . ’
7 C3 , C4 and C5 — For the complete areas of study but not for individual elements
8 They may well provide insight and help for other behavioural disorders but not for addictive disease as such .
9 people who discussed politics more during the campaign gave personal conversations a somewhat higher rating for providing information on the issues , but not for other purposes .
10 Each DHA would continue to be responsible to provide and pay for comprehensive care for its own resident population , but not for other people without current compensation .
11 These results are typical of the others : the speculative efficiency hypothesis is rejected for some but not for other exchange rates .
12 Discharged , perhaps , but not for good .
13 Oases are misleadingly named ; they are simply polar desert areas , notable for their absence of ice but not for floristic abundance .
14 The student loans is going to replace entitlements to housing benefit and social security for er students but not for disabled students .
15 A novelist like Fielding , who is on familiar terms with the other nation ( he married his deceased wife 's maid and friend , Mary Daniel ) , may sometimes take his gentlemen into such rooms , but not for moral reasons : Molly Seagrim 's narrow garret , shaped like the great delta of the Greeks , is a setting for sexual comedy , not social concern .
16 Debenham & Freebody 's of Wigmore Street did so in 1920 , but not for tardy payment of a long outstanding account but for an order which the customer denied had ever been given .
17 Table 11 reaffirms that there is significantly greater RFA in men than in women for verbal tasks , but not for spatial ones .
18 This is ideal for thick yarns and pile knitting , but not for ordinary work .
19 There was some support for specialist but not for general practice franchising .
20 Each of the ways of expressing the no-arbitrage condition considered in Chapter 4 allows for compound growth , but not for continuous compounding .
21 Popular misconceptions often stem from assuming that the national debt is analogous with private debt , which is true for external government debt but not for internal debt :
22 EC regulations require water authorities to test sea water for bacteria , but not for viral content .
23 Composers Pen is ideally suited to the serious musician who is arranging or composing for a choir , brass-band or orchestra but not for commercial publication .
24 Antiochus was used by Thucydides for Sicilian antiquities at the beginning of hi ; book vi , but not for fifth-century history , though he went down to 424 .
25 Security was to be bought — at least sometimes — but not for free men and women but , as the English terminology put it clearly , for ‘ servants ’ — whose liberty was strictly constrained : domestic servants , ‘ railway servants ’ , even ‘ civil servants ’ ( or public officials ) .
26 The number of births to married women each year according to their parity is known , but not for unmarried women .
27 All the research programmes have come from approaches made to the Unit and have involved extensive discussions , sometimes over a long period , but not for bureaucratic reasons .
28 If they are to deter wasteful and unnecessary spending , it seems foolish to impose them for sight tests and dental check-ups ( preventive care usually saves money in the end ) but not for old people 's prescriptions .
29 Reports were now reaching the SD that people — especially those attached to the Churches — were expressing the hope that the Wehrmacht would take over running the State , and that there would be a final victory for Germany but not for National Socialism .
30 This was a style suitable for churches and perhaps for domestic buildings , but not for public offices .
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