Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But for Boro it worked . |
| 32 | But for Iain there is no way back to ordinariness . |
| 33 | ‘ Yeah , to a large degree I still scoop a lot out for the rhythm sound , but for lead I add a bit of mid . |
| 34 | But for Maxim it was still the other way around : the landscape beyond the train window was just for show ; secretly he knew those buildings were mere façades , without interior floors , furniture or live people . |
| 35 | But for colleagues who have illness in the family or marital troubles , this is easier said than done . |
| 36 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 37 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 38 | But for Strauss himself it represented a stage in what was to become an anguished and sometimes bitter drifting away from even this somewhat diluted and Idealist ‘ Christianity ’ . |
| 39 | Questions of design-society relations then appear of major significance — not only for society or for questions of " design-and-society " but for design itself . |
| 40 | The next letter from Miller , dated 2 February 1756 , acknowledged three from Bartram and two boxes of plants and he added ‘ To the first of your letters , I returned an answer in September last , but for fear it may miscarry , I beg leave to repeat the substance of that here . ’ |
| 41 | But for Heseltine it brought a kettleful of resentment , accumulated over more than six years , to boiling-point . |
| 42 | But for years there was a large bomb site down the road , on which I used to play with my friend Howard , who lived three doors the other way . |
| 43 | ‘ Thomas is an extremely bright boy , but for years he was made to feel stupid because he was falling behind his classmates and nobody could understand why , ’ said Mr Bland , a communications con sultant . |
| 44 | It 's ideal for birds with the high frequency voice , but for people they the speech is a bit lower in frequency and does n't work quite so well . |
| 45 | But for people who do suffer head injuries like Mrs Asmoyah , it 's not uncommon for them to suddenly come round a week or even ten days later and be perfectly okay . |
| 46 | But for people who are on income support and receive the attendance allowance , their charge will go up from four forty five to seven fifty . |
| 47 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 48 | It was all right for Dana , because he was just another foreigner , but for Jordi it was impossible . |
| 49 | But for newcomers it is daunting to stand on the brink of Genghis Khan — one of the runs in China Bowl — and gaze down at unending acres of snow . |
| 50 | But for weeks you know it was parked there all day and very often at nighttime . |
| 51 | But for foreigners it is different , but they have to pay three times the Austrian fees . |
| 52 | But for convenience we all use and will continue to use the term . |
| 53 | It is recognised that there is no rigid division between these categories ( the library and photographic services are used both internally and externally , for example ) , but for convenience they have been dealt with separately in this Report . |
| 54 | Most of the reported decisions were made under the provisions of the Act of 1972 but for convenience I shall throughout refer to the relevant provisions under the numbers of the sections and subsections as they appear in the Act of 1988 . |
| 55 | In the modern material age it is hard to comprehend someone regularly and readily giving up such a vast sum to pursue expensive , unpaid projects , but for Barney it 's important . |
| 56 | There was less real poverty among ministers by the end of the century than there had been , but for men who insisted on their professional status and were increasingly better educated , the dilemma was always present . |
| 57 | In 1985 , 55% of all people aged over 85 lived alone , but for men it was only 37% while 61% of women were in this position . |
| 58 | Saudi Arabian forces entered the city on Feb. 27 , but for days there was little evidence of the establishment of any effective central authority . |
| 59 | But for Bruce it 's pure pleasure . |
| 60 | But for fellas there 's no work . |