Example sentences of "but at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato , in particular a passage in his Timaeus : ‘ But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods , and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body . |
| 32 | These rough men did a magnificent job , creating a work of art with primitive tools and equipment — but at a heavy price in human lives . |
| 33 | When you have reached the prime of life and acquired a home and possessions to be proud of , you want to be sure that you have reliable insurance — but at a price that you feel recognises and rewards the care that you take . |
| 34 | We are beginning to see that concern for the whole and concern for individuals are not alternatives , rivals between which we have to choose , but at a deep level belong together . |
| 35 | This will be the case if , for example , you are asked to perform the same job at the same rate of pay but at a different office or factory and the move is catered for by a mobility clause in your contract . |
| 36 | We had ample occupation watching the play of the clouds over the sides of the hills , and the bits of rugged moor and moss and flowing stream that enlivened the way ; but at a turning within some three miles of the inn of Kinlochewe , as we were about to pass the east-going mail gig with its complement of travellers , our driver jerked the horses into a ditch , which upset our machine and broke one of the springs . |
| 37 | Final-year units also treat general theoretical and practical concerns but at a more advanced level , and in a more concentrated manner . |
| 38 | Superficially , the activities differ , but at a deeper level they converge . |
| 39 | Spruce needles certainly take longer to decay than some other leaves , releasing humic acid over a longer period but at a slower rate , but being a long standing constituent of the northern latitudes coniferous belt , spruce ( Picea ) is quite compatible with lakes well stocked with fish . |
| 40 | But at a more fundamental level the model predicts a profit on rail freight on the smallest railway network ( of 2600 kilometres ) when none of the major railway freight generators is linked to the network . |
| 41 | I would n't describe Rattle 's treatment as in any way unfeeling , merely that the various strands are shaped and honed with an unusual sensitivity to detail but at a relatively low emotional temperature . |
| 42 | The Board also said that there was a substantially greater potential , but at a higher cost . |
| 43 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 44 | Children are encouraged to play freely and imaginatively , but at a later stage may be helped to give goods a price-marking of counters , e.g. a packet marked with would only be exchanged for four counters . |
| 45 | Knowledge is always presuppositional , but at a certain point it is no longer provisional . |
| 46 | Well , we recently reviewed a couple of power attenuators by Palmer , and now the American company PS Systems have launched a product to help you run an amp flat out , but at a volume that wo n't offend even the most sensitive ears . |
| 47 | At a very tolerable volume level I managed to produce the sound of a heavily overdriven amp at full tilt , but at a volume where Granny could still hear The Archers . |
| 48 | He was taller than him but at a guess about nine years old . |
| 49 | In this scenario present employment and income patterns continue , but at a higher level of unemployment . |
| 50 | But at a later date , slowly and quietly , the beneficent powers of Nature will reassert themselves ; there is no dramatic reversal of fortune , no catastrophe — ‘ at the coming of the milder day the monuments will disappear , engulfed in new growth of beauty and of bloom ’ . |
| 51 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 52 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 53 | But at a deeper level Lewis wanted to make it plain that talking in this way was not mere metaphor . |
| 54 | But at a day-to-day level , the resistance of ordinary people was reflected by the ‘ silent strike ’ , the carelessness and indifference people paid to their work . |
| 55 | But at a different point in our conversation , they seem to have forgotten about it , and instead painted a bleak picture of lonely Londoners : ‘ We do n't have a circle of friends or acquaintances … we do n't want to have to relate to friends . ’ |
| 56 | But at a drumming canter they bore down on the mass of men and beasts ahead , the circling Scots and the stationary English . |
| 57 | Also Goblander had needed a new exhaust system and they had that done immediately , not in the local Nunes garage though but at a big , impersonal place in Colchester . |
| 58 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 59 | Had it been the director with a retained shareholding of 30 shares who had died on 31 December 1986 , his estate too would have had the benefit of business assets relief , but at a lower percentage deduction . |
| 60 | This is not a very palatable view : each of us likes to think that we are ‘ some-body special ’ — which is why each of us accepts intellectually that someday we must die but at a gut level believes that , in our own case , God , Fate or whatever will make an exception . |