Example sentences of "but most of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov lives with his pain , but most of the time he does n't focus on it . |
| 3 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 4 | By the time he became vice-president of International Creative Management , one of the largest talent agencies in the world , he represented not only a host of illustrious American stars — Helen Hayes , Mary Martin , Arlene Dahl , Maureen Stapleton , Ruth Gordon , Carol Channing , Lillian Gish — but most of the leading actors of the British theatre , including Laurence Olivier , Ralph Richardson , John Gielgud , Rex Harrison , Peggy Ashcroft , Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave . |
| 5 | The dikes get all the credit for keeping the water out , but most of the work is done by the natural wall of sand facing the sea . |
| 6 | It was true that there were now ‘ whole chanceries ’ of paperwork in the offices of village-Soviet secretaries , but most of the secretaries had worked for the volost' in the Tsarist regime and were somewhat suspect . |
| 7 | But most of the material was falling to pieces . |
| 8 | There is a small stock in the pottery but most of the work is commissioned . |
| 9 | But most of the score-for 40 wind and percussion players without strings-is about immensity rather than detail , above all in the last movement . |
| 10 | But most of the friends I have are very very and cross-legged individuals and not very demonstrative in any way . |
| 11 | There were several prominent Anglophobes in Truman 's Administration , like James Byrnes , the Secretary of State , but most of the opposition stemmed from the widely held belief within the American electorate that the United States should guard its lead , if not monopoly , in military and civil uses of atomic energy . |
| 12 | But most of the 8,000 people sitting in the glass house are tourists drawn by Mr Schuller 's fame ( he is seen by about 1.3m American households each Sunday ) and the eye-popping spectacle of the cathedral designed by Mr Philip Johnson . |
| 13 | But most of the people in the Winslow group are professional and middle-class — doctors , teachers , executives . |
| 14 | But most of the gap between Britain and other countries opens up within the next 20 years . |
| 15 | But most of the frenzy was elsewhere . |
| 16 | Half of those were initiated inside the firm , but most of the others were initiated by shareholders . |
| 17 | But most of the patients ' notes are marked ‘ Not for Resus ’ ! |
| 18 | But most of the dogs were unhappy and would bark themselves hoarse . |
| 19 | I 'm not saying she 's perfect , but most of the time , she 's fairly near . |
| 20 | They will go to a funeral if someone in the family , a friend or a colleague , has died , but most of the people attending such a service will have little , if any , regular contact with their local church . |
| 21 | It was the first day of the show season , but most of the horses did not understand . |
| 22 | But most of the models in our heads have been learnt . |
| 23 | For a soft-shoulder Sunday mechanic like me it would have taken all day , but most of the jobs are incredibly simple to the man who can , who served his time with Ford and spent years at London Transport . |
| 24 | ‘ Several thousand cases are sold each year , ’ says an Invergordon spokesman , ‘ but most of the sales are in Britain . |
| 25 | They had a single pair of legs — the surviving twin will require an artificial leg — but most of the major organs , including the heart and spinal cord , were separate . |
| 26 | Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 27 | But most of the foreign exchange , gilts and swaps dealers still had their eyes on the ball , rather than their heads in the clouds of political speculation . |
| 28 | But most of the killings took place in and around Rostov-on-Don . |
| 29 | But most of the time I did n't write because one day was just like the day before , and sometimes I thought — what 's the use of writing anyway , when nobody is ever going to read it ? |
| 30 | A few of the pieces were properly stored , with dustsheets and numbered tags , but most of the stuff was just crammed in every which way . |