Example sentences of "but [adv] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But luckily for his successors , Montagus , Brudenells and , since 1790 , Scotts , Montagu did not aspire to create an English Versailles . |
| 2 | Partly for Clare 's sake , but mostly for my own satisfaction , I decided to do my level best to break that man . |
| 3 | Insisting that the Platform was not fighting against the party but rather for its " democratic renewal aimed at adapting it to a multiparty system " , Shostakovsky called on Platform supporters to remain inside the CPSU until after the congress ( a view endorsed on April 12 by leading radical Boris Yeltsin ) , and criticized a call made by fellow Democratic Platform leader Igor Chubais on April 11 for Platform supporters to resign their CPSU membership immediately . |
| 4 | Member states may , however , demand standards which are more stringent than the ‘ essential ’ standards , but only for their own domestically produced products or services ; they can not prevent the importation of products that comply with Community essential standards even though they may fail to comply with the more stringent domestic standards . |
| 5 | The National Health Insurance Act of 1911 provided access to a general practitioner for all insured workers , male and female , but not for their dependants , who were mainly women and children . |
| 6 | Sinead O'Connor should be congratulated for her stand ( what the hell does Bob Dylan do these days ? ) against church hypocrisy but not for her recent album which is , to be frank , boring . |
| 7 | Most of that 39% is taken up by Hewlett-Packard , says Ybarra , pointing to HP 's endorsement of Adobe technology in its printer business , but not for its workstations . |
| 8 | Her husband had already left , but not for his office in the centre . |
| 9 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 10 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
| 11 | But just for your information . |
| 12 | But hardly for his present namesake . |
| 13 | Significant yes , a watershed of sorts , yes , but more for its importance as a marker in the Parker 's career . |
| 14 | There was praise in that statement somewhere but more for his son than the film . |
| 15 | As she was seven months pregnant at the time , Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child . |
| 16 | All the gentlemen admired her , not only for her beauty but also for her musical skills . |
| 17 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 18 | He would pay particular tribute to Ernest Green , the General Secretary of the WEA , for his guidance and tenacity on behalf of the District , to Lionel Elvin and David Thomson not only for their unremitting service as District Treasurers but also for their personal support and wise counselling . |
| 19 | One fact is abundantly clear : schools have become increasingly responsible for not only their day-to-day decisions , but also for their short- , medium- and longer-term development decisions . |
| 20 | It is very heartening to us to realize that over 130 years ago the faith of many individuals , both young and old , rich and poor , built our beautiful Cathedral , adorned with bells which proudly rang out through the City of Lancaster , not only for themselves but also for their children and future generations . |
| 21 | • Our team of instructors have been chosen not only for their teaching skills , but also for their sympathetic understanding of the needs of our students . |
| 22 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 23 | Good schools have always regarded advice and guidance as part of the responsibilities of senior teachers , and department heads are chosen not only for their administrative abilities but also for their qualities of leadership in developing sound methodologies amongst their staff . |
| 24 | All of the preceding discussion and recommendations have implications not only for the content of Primary Language courses but also for their organisation . |
| 25 | Each package is independently analysed by two individuals , chosen not only for their specialist knowledge of the industry but also for their understanding of open learning techniques . |
| 26 | I am grateful to my colleagues not only for their cooperation in the study but also for their agreement to publish the results . |
| 27 | The whole circular design is set within a square formed by the inner border of an arrangement of repeating geometric panels ( panels which , themselves , are significant not only for their suggestion of links with the continent ( section 4.4 ) and with other simple , geometric designs , but also for their inclusion of eight circular medallions , each of which is reminiscent of the three , minor concentric circular designs listed above ) . |
| 28 | KINSEY was one of the successes of the year , not least for its semi-criminal claim-game milieu but also for its imaginative shooting of day and night time in the city . |
| 29 | Getting this right obviously matters in itself , but also for its bearing on two further issues . |
| 30 | Tenerife , the largest of the exotic , duty-free Canary Islands , is renowned not only for its excellent climate but also for its amazing variation of scenery . |