Example sentences of "but [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different cells , such as blood cells , nerve cells , and muscle cells , make up the various tissues and organs of the body , but the diversity of cell types is superimposed on a common plan : each cell consists of a nucleus , which is the seat of the chromosomes , the genes , and the genetic material in general ; and which is surrounded by cytoplasm , whose constituents provide the environment in which the genetic potential is actualized . |
| 2 | He was well placed in the cotton industry and it gave him a generous income ; therefore it had to take precedence , but the monotony of arriving at the same place at the same time every day now bored him as much as had the mechanical frenzy of the bobbins when he arrived . |
| 3 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 4 | Gabriel , the messenger of the Annunciation , had been an angel of life and joy ; but the angel of death was a familiar and sombre concept in Christianity , as in Judaism and Islam . |
| 5 | It could open doors for older people too , but the foundations for changing attitudes have not been adequately laid . |
| 6 | But the foundations for this belief were like the Cheshire Cat in Alice of Wonderland ; the more one looked at them , the less substance they seemed to have . |
| 7 | The attraction of the Social Democratic Party some 10 years ago to those not previously active in politics was not the ‘ break-away ’ policies then dividing the Labour Party , but the foundations of an accessible , open and equal party structure . |
| 8 | The receipt a person of a share of the profits of a business is prima facie evidence that he is a partner in the business but the receipt of such a share , or of a payment contingent on or varying with the profits of a business , does not of itself make him a partner in the business . |
| 9 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 10 | But the continuation of the Cold War and Europe 's reluctance to surrender American military protection , meant that substantial amounts of US military aid and large numbers of US troops became committed to the Continent on a permanent basis after the Korean War . |
| 11 | Neo-classical models of the labour market contend that equilibriating mechanisms such as migration should work to eradicate spatial variations in unemployment ( Gleave and Palmer , 1980 ) , but the continuation of wide regional variations in rates of joblessness through the 1980s suggests that these mechanisms are not working very efficiently ( Gleave and Sellens , 1984 ; Green et al. , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 13 | But the description of society progressively erodes the agency of the individual who is inserted into a socially given context of institutions and roles . |
| 14 | In this case , it turned out not to be the theory at fault but the description of the initial conditions , which did not include a consideration of the yet-to-be-discovered planet Neptune . |
| 15 | But the description of these pilgrimages in Philo ( De spec . |
| 16 | But the Ministry of Defence says seventy-six civilian workers will still be made redundant . |
| 17 | Her owner , Alan Ayres , claimed she was hit by a submarine , but the Ministry of Defence denies this . |
| 18 | The emperor 's antics on stage embarrassed the Roman Senate , but the opening of membership of that august body to Greeks led to an irreversible improvement in the standing of Greeks within the Roman Empire . |
| 19 | Clearly , you will not be able to insert the details of the title , but the address of the property , the date , the consideration , the parties and any special provisions as mentioned above can be included in exactly the same way as if the land were registered . |
| 20 | Industrial fallout is one suspected source for the contamination , but the farmers in Shuttlewood , near Bolsover , Derbyshire , can not claim compensation until the cause is traced . |
| 21 | Nowadays a modern road crosses the Glenshane Pass , and a forest has been planted across from the pub , but the tradition of hospitality begun in the little farmhouse continues to this day . |
| 22 | On Jan. 18 , following the first Scud attacks the previous night , Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens stated that " we will react , certainly " , but the USA in particular immediately launched intensive diplomatic efforts to sustain what Bush described as Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir 's " great understanding for the interests of the USA and others in this coalition " . |
| 23 | His attempt failed , but the Treaty of Bretigny was concluded which gave Edward sovereignty over Calais and the whole of Aquitaine , almost a quarter of France . |
| 24 | But the treaty on European union signed at Maastricht gave voting and candidacy rights to citizens of the union who live in a member state without being a national of that state . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North ( Mr. Radice ) has a vision of an international society , but the treaty before us — including the treaty of Rome — is not an international treaty . |
| 26 | The full foliage of May did not burn , but the mould of dry , dead leaves and brushwood on the ground caught fiercely , and flared down upon them so fast that they were forced to turn and run , having no time to take the harder way up to the crest . |
| 27 | At Bury St Edmunds the franchise was vested in the thirty-seven members of the corporation , but the complexion of the electorate could only be altered when a vacancy occurred naturally in their ranks . |
| 28 | o But the inhabitants of Galtres Forest did not wait . |
| 29 | But the inhabitants of Lebanon saw these changes in a somewhat different light . |
| 30 | But the inhabitants of some twelfth-century towns and villages moved last to associate for the protection of their interests against those of their overlords — bishops in the case of most ancient towns , abbots or castellans for newer foundations . |