Example sentences of "but [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a dove-grey Jaeger frock , discreet and asexual , but off an expensive peg . |
| 2 | On Sunday , the doors of the Old swan open at the ungodly hour of 10 a.m. , but for a new set of pint-sized customers . |
| 3 | The droid was motionless but for a cautious antenna trembling at its apex . |
| 4 | Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs . |
| 5 | Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs . |
| 6 | It might be okay for Nutty and even for a weed like Hoomey with his crass infatuation for the hulking ex-chaser , but for a cool customer like himself it was out of character . |
| 7 | States parties may accede separately tot he convention and to the jurisdiction of the Commission and the Court , and they may do so not permanently but for a specific term on the expiry of which the accession will end . |
| 8 | Every technical device and dramatic trick was blatantly obvious this time through , and yet there was still a lot of delight , not from smug recognition of prize kitsch , but for a good yarn well told with the perfect characterisation of Albert Sharpe in the title role . |
| 9 | Fish and chips are a Northern favourite and always fresh here , but for a real treat go to Harry Ramsden 's at nearby Guiseley , said to be the largest fish and chip shop in the world — and , with its plush decor and chandeliers , a very chic chippie ! |
| 10 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 11 | Theda 's gaze ran over the shadowed building , dark but for a faint glimmer behind one or two of the myriad windows , dismay flooding her breast . |
| 12 | According to their rhetoric , public morals were now not merely a job for the criminal law , but for a wide spectrum of social agencies . |
| 13 | Whatever the causes of construction delays , they were to remain a persistent and seemingly insoluble problem , not only for the electricity supply industry but for a wide range of other British industries embarking on such large capital projects for decades thereafter . |
| 14 | The engine may be be smooth , refined and flexible in its mid-range , but for a cross-country sprint it 's asthmatic . |
| 15 | But for a radical government committed to " rolling back the state " these changes , though controversial , were not large . |
| 16 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 17 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 18 | But for a maiden speech , by tradition , everyone keeps absolutely silent and no one is allowed to interrupt . |
| 19 | But for a goal-line clearance from Mason — O'Neill had met Crabbe 's corner with a firm shot — United would have led on merit at the interval . |
| 20 | All went well but for a small hitch . |
| 21 | There had been bad and costly muddles in the early days of the war ; agriculture had been disrupted by the number of peasants called to the colours , and eventually some had had to be returned to the fields ; the great Renault motor works was closed down , all but for a small shop making stretchers — motor vehicles evidently being considered a luxury with little application to the war effort . |
| 22 | It is a major handicap for thousands of people , but for a major star for whom flying is a way of life , it is a living nightmare . |
| 23 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 24 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 25 | But for a long time , that was the only contact between us . |
| 26 | It seems an obvious assumption that these relatively simple organisms appeared very early in the history of life , but for a long time there was no proof that they actually did so . |
| 27 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 28 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
| 29 | But for a long time all the local shop-boys had insulted him because he wore the uniform of a charity-boy . |
| 30 | She took it through to the lounge and laid it on the rug and at first I was amused But I could see all was not well because she sat as she usually does , but for a long time — over half an hour — then she lay down like this and she has n't moved . " |