Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merging together of different financial institutions in this way to form ‘ one-stop multi-service financial supermarkets ’ would not have been possible but for the relaxation of certain types of regulatory barriers . |
| 2 | The high point was the abolition of capital punishment which , although finally decided by Parliament after free votes in both Houses in 1965 and 1969 , would not have been possible but for the long campaign , outside Parliament as much as inside , mounted by the penal reformers of the day . |
| 3 | The story might have been different but for the Vietnam War . |
| 4 | In 1962 the increase in population had been 1,172 but in the same year only nineteen new houses had been built ; land had to be found for new housing . |
| 5 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 6 | The fare increases would have been bigger but for the governments last minute intervention . |
| 7 | As a colleague you 're deficient but as a neighbour you 're marvellous . |
| 8 | Charlie Hatton had always been cocky but in the past weeks he 'd become insufferable and most of the meetings had broken up like this . |
| 9 | Tavett had been shaky but in the end unmoved : he added nothing and changed nothing of what he had said on Saturday . |
| 10 | Skills are important but in the harsh world of the 1980s the basic ‘ battle of ideas ’ is even more vital . |
| 11 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 12 | If he had done the shock would have been less but on the other hand , his holiday would have been spoilt . |
| 13 | Mira 's dream is to get away from both this approach to the past and the alternative approach of realist fiction , to found a school of history in which ‘ The highest marks will be given , not to the most correct which will be unverifiable but to the most ingenious ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 14 | However , the really important area of application is to problems which would be linear but for a few ( separable ) nonlinear terms and here it can be very effective . |
| 15 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 16 | Like everything else in elephant capture , this is a hazardous operation and would be impossible but for the presence of the trained koonkies . |
| 17 | The chance of winning £75,000 , then the top prize on the football pools , was too small to be visible but in the Fifties this slender possibility mesmerized the nation . |
| 18 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 19 | In a case of recognition an identification parade would often be pointless but in the present case an identification parade or at the least a controlled confrontation should have been held . |
| 20 | A testimony may be fascinating but at the same time quite irrelevant to the basic questions touching on faith and doubt . |
| 21 | ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’ |
| 22 | By the time everything is packed into that bag that 's going to be heavy but on the other hand I 'm going to have taxis . |
| 23 | Analyses of science teaching ( see reference 6 ) have shown tendencies for the preferred style to be subject-dependent but with a great range within each subject . |
| 24 | I could n't be certain but in the hubbub that followed ( shrieked squeaks and ‘ hahas ’ from the audience ) I thought I heard a definite mechanical ‘ click ’ , but when the stage lights came up again , nothing had happened . |
| 25 | By 1719 there were eleven , a figure which would have been higher but for the continuing war with Sweden and the very strained relations with Great Britain which then existed . |
| 26 | Progress has been patchy but by the time of writing study on the following fields ( often requiring further compulsory elements or specific combinations of fields in addition to the general requirements of the course regulations ) carry agreed professional exemption or recognition for graduates : |
| 27 | They were brown but in the winter they turn white . |
| 28 | To begin with we were nervous but by the end we were making up silly situations and if we made mistakes everyone laughed . ’ |
| 29 | It is important for the learning process to avoid being prescriptive but at the same time ensure that the alternatives put forward are acceptable . |
| 30 | In the early 1970s , the differences in expenditure were insignificant but by the mid-1980s , ITV was spending over one-and-a-half times more on its television services than the BBC . |