Example sentences of "but [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well before 1880 , Wesleyan Methodists had a thriving Sunday School and some form of regular public worship in the Strand-on-the-Green area , but due to the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire , a large site in Sutton Court Road was made available to the Methodists , who raised funds and built a substantial Hall in the centre of that site , opened in 1880 and used for Sunday School and public worship ; followed , in 1902 , by the erection of a Manse on the southern flank . |
| 2 | These account for around a fifth of live births in this group of handicaps , but due to the limited life-expectancy , they are not present in the community . |
| 3 | But due to the death of Pope John XXIII they had dropped their plans . |
| 4 | The changes are not due to alterations in the signals during limb development but due to the alterations in cell response . |
| 5 | In this campaign he led a large body of troops , as befitted such a powerful prince , but due to the continuing disputes between himself and Barbarossa , he abandoned the imperial cause at the siege of Allessandria . |
| 6 | A beck runs alongside the main street but due to the vagaries of the rainfall , springs etc it is more often a dry bed . |
| 7 | Underlying inflation , now around the 3.7% mark , is expected to slow but due to the devaluation of the pound UK exports should pick up dramatically because the price of British goods will be much cheaper abroad . |
| 8 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 9 | Rostov knew that he would not be able to understand even if he could hear , but due to the fact that Arghatun 's replies were clearly either affirmative or negative he thought that probably the officer 's account was being clarified at every stage . |
| 10 | It seemed the blind girl found living with Boz and his bride very restricting , but due to the bad weather she was not allowed to leave the camp for much of the winter . |
| 11 | The number of people in the working age group ( 16 – 65 ) was 32 million in 1985 , of whom 26 million were economically active ( Thompson 1987 ) The age group will grow marginally till the end of the century but due to the precipitate drop in the younger age groups a sustained period of ageing within the working population has begun . |
| 12 | This is not due to any animosity towards the adherents of other faiths but due to the inadmissibility of such acts in the Tenets of the Christian Faith . |
| 13 | But due to the lack of official interest , it has been left to the Merchant Navy Association to make enquiries about the possible striking of a commemorative award by the Surrey-based firm Award Productions , who have recently attracted attention with their issue of a National Service Medal . |
| 14 | Berbizier 's new look garçons , short on height but strong in the arm , dominated the close-quarter forward combat , but a steady stream of set-piece gave Wales the lifeline they craved . |
| 15 | Helen cheerfully returned home , but apprehensive about the effect of this ‘ ghastly suspicion ’ on her hysterical mother . |
| 16 | Following a wet start , October was generally overcast but dry until the 14th . |
| 17 | To the Queen , Cranmer was not only detestable as a heretic but odious as the man who had arranged her mother 's divorce ; he had however been legally consecrated as Archbishop by order of the pope , and only the Pope could hand him over for judgement and punishment by the civil power . |
| 18 | The Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi is black but tolerant of the white minority . |
| 19 | It 's a kind of egocentric model , not in the everyday sense of egocentric , that is selfish , but egocentric in the sense that it starts with ego as its reference point . |
| 20 | Once love for a woman but hopeless from the start and perhaps needing to be . |
| 21 | To the layman they were neither beautiful nor exciting , but redolent of the search for the Loch Ness monster , sunken ships and hidden treasure . |
| 22 | The ego , which itself develops out of the id , excludes certain impressions and processes as a defensive process , which become not just preconscious , and therefore capable of being remembered easily , but repressed into the id , where powerful emotional factors keep them forgotten . |
| 23 | He was found not guilty of the serious charge of seditious libel but guilty of the lesser misdemeanour of creating a public mischief . |
| 24 | Smart 's short prefatory note is elaborate and slightly inaccurate , but emphatic on the subject of David 's excellence , his consecration of his genius , and his high worthiness for ‘ The transcendent virtue of praise and adoration ’ . |
| 25 | She regretted it almost immediately , for the boys looked embarrassed , not ashamed of themselves , as they should have been , but shy in the face of a tasteless demonstration . |
| 26 | ‘ Decisions , are binding but specific to the named parties concerned whilst ‘ recommendations ’ , as the name suggests , do not create binding obligations . |
| 27 | Their caution was well-founded , for several pyres stood ready but unlit in the cemetery , and several members of the Secte Rouge , wearing cross-belts of sisal rope , guarded the place with wicked-looking machetes . |
| 28 | This form of romanticism becomes not only reactionary , therefore , but conducive to the sort of fascism that took root in Europe in the twentieth century . |
| 29 | Mobutu said that presidential elections , which should have been held before the expiry of his term of office at midnight that day , had not taken place " for reasons beyond our control but inherent in the dynamics of the process of democratization " . |
| 30 | Also unfortunate perhaps , but acceptable in the context of the building 's new use , was the demolition of the Art Deco ablutions block for ‘ Boys ’ and ‘ Girls ’ wrapped around the west elevation . |