Example sentences of "but this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publisher may be correct in believing that there is a space for a book which reviews Picasso 's career in its entirety and discusses the full range of his activity as a painter , draughtsman , printmaker , sculptor and ceramicist , but this publication is certainly not the solution to this requirement , and Professor Warncke of the University of Tübingen is , sadly , not the scholar to undertake this enormous task . |
| 2 | Relativism asserts the view that everything given — this word being taken in the widest possible sense — can be grasped only in perspectives ; but this proposition itself is supposed to be valid absolutely , not just for one perspective . |
| 3 | But this conjunction is not just about your life but about the transition humanity is undergoing — a transition that involves the dissolution of outdated structures in order for the new to come in . |
| 4 | But this synergy was not sufficient to overcome the early liquidity advantage established by the MATIF . |
| 5 | But this Martha could not answer . |
| 6 | Indeed between 1512 and 1519 some attempts were made to sink new mines , presumably to meet demand , but this expansion was followed by contraction during the general European crisis of 1521–26 . |
| 7 | So Mr is actually going to er talk about that but I just wanted to go through a little sort of resolution , I mean if , if you looked at it , if you looked at number one , it says express this opposition to further expansion and then it goes on and lists Stansted and Luton , but this expansion goes now I mean Stansted is expanding erm daily . |
| 8 | But this Myles Burke was different . |
| 9 | Laura was often to be seen with a heavyweight nineteenth-century French novel in her hands , but this pursuit held little appeal for Bernard . |
| 10 | But this contrast should not blind us to the fact that he could work with Henry to an extent that was impossible with Rufus . |
| 11 | But this fighter sheered-off without firing a shot , after our rear gunner had given it several short bursts . |
| 12 | But this metaphor can mislead , for some people leap straight to the wrong part of the metaphor — the fact that the sculptor is a conscious designer- and miss the important part : the fact that the sculptor works by subtraction rather than addition . |
| 13 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 14 | There was no maturity effect , but this finding is not in conflict with the Samuelson hypothesis because the test was conducted using transactions data . |
| 15 | Hatt and Hanson found that preincubation with TPA inhibited the stimulation by histamine of the cyclic AMP content of rat perietal cells , but this finding was not replicated by Ostrowski and Bomsztyk . |
| 16 | But this novel has not just one but two barmen who could also at a pinch be hailed as lords of language . |
| 17 | Mr Antoniades required each of them , Mr Villiers and Miss Bridger , to agree to pay one half of each aggregate periodical payment , but this circumstance can not convert a tenancy into a licence . |
| 18 | There is indeed a large plaque commemorating Henry James ( and , it should not be forgotten , a more recent small one to the memory of E. F. Benson and his brother ! ) set into the garden wall , but this wall in no way attempts to reproduce the elegant lost façade of the Garden Room . |
| 19 | " Aids is a growth topic for medical writers , hence the spate of " me too " books , but this colour atlas is different . |
| 20 | But this test is rather more costly and time-consuming than Gentle 's idea , and one judge felt that the variability in the way babies are normally cared for could introduce a great deal of ‘ noise ’ into the experiment . |
| 21 | But this test examines control of search location by both sets of cues and the result would be trivial if the context cues are of primary importance . |
| 22 | But this terminology and the politics which once went with it have now all but completely vanished . |
| 23 | Keiki accepted this fait accompli and withdrew towards Osaka , but this acquiescence was not supported by some of his followers , who attempted to occupy Kyoto and clashed with troops mainly from Satsuma and Choshú0 fighting as the ‘ imperial army ’ . |
| 24 | Until recently it also supplied M & N Norman Timber , but this company has since stopped taking mahogany from Maginco on environmental grounds . |
| 25 | Well , they should be , but this company are shite . |
| 26 | Playful biting is usual in young puppies , but this trait should have been lost by the time they are about four-and-a-half months old . |
| 27 | But this diffusion is being implemented in a manner very different from that affecting /Ε/.g |
| 28 | After the break , Hereford showed some skilfulful touches , but this Simon Brain shot lacked power and direction . |
| 29 | Until recently , a salmon farm inhibited fishing in Skeltar , but this enterprise has since ended and salmon once more have freedom of access to their traditional spawning grounds . |
| 30 | I like the idea of being the daughter of a theatrical landlady , but this enterprise provides my most startling and problematic memories . |