Example sentences of "but at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's feared that without active promotion tourism may suffer in the region , perhaps not at the major centres but at small businesses like bed and breakfasts . |
| 2 | On the river the Emma Louise was making good speed … but at five mph , she came a worthy second … |
| 3 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 4 | But at all times , if they are of one body , they will display continuity of programme . |
| 5 | He gave detailed instructions for the procedure to be followed if no suitable dissertations were submitted , concluding : ‘ But if no such dissertations , worthy , in the opinion of the said Examiners , of any such reward as aforesaid should be offered for seven years , then a Medal , to be purchased with the said accumulations , shall be offered for the best dissertation on any Veterinary subject thought worthy by the said Examiners of such reward , but at all times the Foot of the Horse is to be the subject preferred , and next to that the nature , causes and treatment of Glanders , and the diseases of the Eye in horses : And if there should be no successful dissertation at the end of seven years , then the amount of the said accumulations shall be disposed of by the said Governors in such manner as they in their discretion may think proper , so as they are applied for the promotion of Veterinary Science ’ . |
| 6 | But at all times I would prefer them to act as if they have non-speaking parts . |
| 7 | He practised on the western circuit , where Thomas Creevey [ q.v. ] found him ‘ most amiable , occasionally most boring , but at all times most upright and honourable ’ . |
| 8 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 9 | Occasionally our local gulls will be joined by the odd glaucous gull whose summer home is farther north , in Iceland or even in Spitsbergen : the glaucous gulls superficially resemble our herring gulls in that the adults have white bodies with grey backs , and the immatures are speckled brown , but at all ages they can be distinguished by having no black markings on the wing-tips , which are uniform fawn or white , depending on the age of the bird . |
| 10 | Above area councils , there will be district councils , community county councils and so forth , right up to the Ulster National Council — but at all levels the individuals will never be anything other than delegates responsible to the people . |
| 11 | Clearly working under the pressure of the speed of events in central Europe , the West Europeans have decided to go all out to form a united economic bloc , if possible by the end of next year , but at all costs by January 1992 when the EC internal market is due to be completed . |
| 12 | ‘ The kind of smell which makes sick people worse must interfere with the vigour and vitality of those who are well , but at all events it is sufficient to show that sick persons are injured thereby ’ , per Stephen , J. in the Malton Manure case . |
| 13 | But at all events , the insurmountable obstacle to such planning was the total unwillingness of unions to accept manpower planning which had been at the heart of wartime economic direction . |
| 14 | But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer . |
| 15 | It follows from this My Lords that I believe that the Noble Lord , Lord with his well-known moderation and desire to compromise has gone rather too far in meeting Government intentions , but at all events I do ago go along with his proposal that if it is to be done by order , it would be right that the order should be laid before Parliament to make quite sure that justice has been done . |
| 16 | They focus on the central parent-child bond , but at one generation removed and with a substantial difference in age between the two parties . |
| 17 | But at one time the story gained such currency that fans were sending pizzas and Chinese meals to Kylie 's Melbourne home . |
| 18 | STAMFORD is usually referred to as having fourteen churches in the medieval period , but at one time there was a fifteenth , dedicated to St. Thomas . |
| 19 | It 's hard to imagine now the armies of men working here and at Beldi Hill , but at one time the area must have been loud with the noise of men and their picks , crowbars , shovels , barrows , crushing hammers and water-wheels . |
| 20 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 21 | Woodforde never married , but at one time was sufficiently attracted by Elizabeth or ‘ Betsy ’ White , a relation by marriage , to make her a sort of guarded proposal . |
| 22 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |
| 23 | Eliot was able to ‘ recognise himself through someone other ’ — a changeable other , but at one point it was the Frenchman Laforgue . |
| 24 | They came down , they were altogether like that but at one point those red ones came down the ice altogether . |
| 25 | Whitaker thought this was all wonderful stuff and great fun , but at one stage when his patience was wearing thin he was heard to exclaim : ‘ This is worse than working for Murdoch ! ’ |
| 26 | It 's one of the toughest tests of endurance held on water , but at one stage the organisers considered calling it off , after storms caused river levels to rise . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't really ‘ bang it ’ but at one stage I was doing it three weekends out of four . |
| 28 | In view of the technical advance implied it is thought that it was probably he who was the ‘ Mr Showers ’ who was complimented in 1692 for having played in hitherto impossible keys and ‘ with all the softness imaginable ’ ; but at that date the reference might conceivably be to his father or , less probably , his kinsman William . |
| 29 | But at that Service it should also be possible to think about what has been achieved and to express gratitude for the increase . |
| 30 | But at that minute , having allowed them free rein , guilt and self-condemnation were riding her hard . |