Example sentences of "but of [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 But of course the erotic can be conceived quite differently , as it was by Pound .
2 ‘ There is a lot of common ground — the same causes for companies and organisations encountering difficulties , but of course the solutions have to be tailor-made to a particular industry or company culture. , A sound organisation structure helps to overcome many operational problems , in Cuckney 's view .
3 But of course the users do n't know what they want , so they end up getting another duff system .
4 This program performs to the high standards expected of Macintosh software but of course the final reward depends on investment in time , patience and hardware .
5 After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions .
6 As the weather was so bad — over Normandy conditions deteriorated into the worst storms for forty years — the likelihood of Luftwaffe fighters being up seems remote ; but of course the hazard of anti-aircraft fire was omnipresent .
7 This does not seem to correspond to any community published elsewhere , but of course the environment is rather marginal for woodland growth at this locality .
8 All these characters are used in the identification of fossil species , but of course the colour patterns that may be characteristic of living species are not available in the great majority of fossils .
9 Many details , such as the reproduction of type-script and the printing of a page askew as if that was how it came out of the type-writer , suggest the fiction that the novel is a draft , a preliminary version , but of course the pages are printed and therefore fixed .
10 But of course the nexus of any government in this country is No. 10 and the Treasury , with the Bank of England as the Treasury 's appendage , which unfortunately it is .
11 These funerary items were nearly always painted by heraldic amateurs — signwriters , coachbuilders and so on — so although they provide useful clues they should not be regarded as authoritative , but of course the fact that they are not can also form part of the story the local historian has to tell .
12 But of course the foam system had better switch itself off automatically at low speeds .
13 but of course the main event of the year at Headingley is the Test Match , and say Yorkshire Cricket Club : ‘ You really could n't have a better view than from the comfort of an executive box . ’
14 But of course the writer 's assumptions may be mistaken : the reader may know more or less than has been assumed , in which case the negotiation will falter .
15 But of course the cost of improving the accuracy of credit reference files in this way would have to be met somehow .
16 But of course the very same argument could have been used in favour of broadcasting in any of over a and of childhood for only a minority of Tanzanians .
17 But of course the human body is simply not capable of being subject to such control over prolonged periods .
18 But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid .
19 If it freezes , a collar of ice is then so much the worse , so it is a wise precaution to go round your roses after windy conditions and tread firm and close out any ‘ funnels ’ — but of course the danger to taller bushes can be much reduced by shortening sail .
20 But of course the best ca n't go on forever , can they , or how are they the best ? ’
21 The federal , state and local levels of the state apparatus are all externally controlled by business and social elites , but of course the character of that control varies from region to region , thereby allowing very diverse elite interests to be reconciled and integrated .
22 The ensemble includes two flutes , one doubling piccolo : Mozart never wrote a serenade for wind using flutes , but of course The Magic Flute there had to be flutes , Papageno 's pipes too , represented at the very beginning of the first movement , and returning in the second movement , by the piccolo .
23 Questions like these are at the heart of epistemology , but of course the subject spreads , like all philosophical enquiry , and its boundaries are fuzzy .
24 But of course the same could be said of the situation in Lace v. Chantler [ 1944 ] K.B .
25 In view of that letter it is clear that the Crown Prosecution Service do not seek to employ any of the material disclosed by Mr. Tully in compliance with the order of Buckley J. but of course the Crown Prosecution Service can use any material which the Crown Prosecution Service have already obtained and any other material which they obtain ‘ independently ’ of the present proceedings .
26 But of course the most important cases of the rise of the salaried professional in cultural production have occurred in the institutions of the new media , in which integrated social production became normal and necessary .
27 But of course the poor little animals are n't on our level . ’
28 Erm but of course the the other problem was that that blues parties erm were also places where a lot of ganja was smoked .
29 You see the T U C education er department is er rises from the demise of the N C L C but of course the the N C L C was really really good , first class tutors .
30 Normally I would have gone down in the passenger pod , but of course the pod was back on Uulaa .
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