Example sentences of "but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For most young people it is a passing phase which they will grow out of , but for some it can become a habit . |
| 32 | Often these problems are merely irritating , but for some women the problem can be so severe that the way they live their life can be affected . |
| 33 | But for Leonard and his family there was special sadness at this point , for the traditional ‘ prayer of release ’ ( from responsibility for his son ) by the father was necessarily absent , a pang he could recall 40 years after the occasion . |
| 34 | ‘ Teenage music ’ had not yet arrived , and what there was was essentially for adults , in the form of country and western and rhythm and blues ; jazz was popular , of course , in some circles , but for the rest it was this or classical music , which Leonard also enjoyed , and waltzes . |
| 35 | The excess to which some have pointed may well disclose the absence of something crucial , but for that we must defer judgment . |
| 36 | I shall have more to say about occlusion a little later , but for now : grasping the fact of occlusion in the sense of grasping the fact that if something were removed then something behind it would be perceived because the something behind was there all along is an achievement of the central systems . |
| 37 | On the tube home she felt like crying , not because she had left , but for Sharon and Maria , not to say Michael . |
| 38 | There are many excellent players in women 's tennis , but for me , Miss Sanchez-Vicario is the best . |
| 39 | To that extent the SuperCut is also on the right lines , and has some benefits , but for the serious woodcutter it is limiting . |
| 40 | Starting with a blank sheet of paper is perhaps easy for some , but for myself , I can neither draw accurately nor can I imagine without a picture or actual model to start from . |
| 41 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 42 | For areas that will get the occasional splash or may suffer from condensation , a water-resistant adhesive and grout is perfectly adequate , but for surfaces such as shower cubicles , which will have to withstand prolonged wetting , it is essential to use both waterproof adhesive and waterproof grout . |
| 43 | It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 44 | But for summer barbecues and evening entertaining , they provide a useful light . |
| 45 | Ordinary flettons or stocks can be used for garden walls , where water will run off them , but for paving you need special quality frost-proof or engineering bricks , otherwise they will quickly disintegrate . |
| 46 | Iron and steel can also be primed with these materials for interior work , but for exterior work calcium plumbate primer is best . |
| 47 | But for many , the idea of selling those treasured pieces at a major sale has never crossed their mind ; either that , or they just do n't know how to do so . |
| 48 | ‘ A lot of prayers were said for me but for six weeks absolutely nothing happened . |
| 49 | A Your dogs need more fat , not more protein , but for some reason most of the dog-owning world believes otherwise . |
| 50 | For low gain systems such as fluxgate compasses or short range metal detectors this is true , but for high sensitivity application such as the magnetometer described here , there are good reasons to avoid this approach . |
| 51 | But for users that need more help , documentation is contained in a four-page README.DOC written in ‘ engineerspeak ’ . |
| 52 | Nevertheless , in a feminist academic context writing may well be studied , not primarily for its literary but for its cultural interest . |
| 53 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 54 | Culturalists will point out — as C. S. Lewis once did — that much poetry of the past was not written for aesthetic ends , but for religious , political , or other social purposes . |
| 55 | Moreover Prothero , a historian , perhaps had no ideas about poetic diction one way or the other ; Pound , as we have seen , thought himself victimized by Prothero not for anything to do with writing but for having championed Lewis the painter and Gaudier the sculptor . |
| 56 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 57 | And so there is reason to look in Hardy 's poetry not just for allusions to Virgil 's Latin but for echoes of Dryden 's English . |
| 58 | But for all its individual strengths it does n't evolve a satisfying shape . |
| 59 | But for one tiny group of exquisitely beautiful long-distance travellers , the coming journey may prove their last . |
| 60 | They are still 277 behind England and only 43 ahead of Graham Gooch , but for exhilarating strokeplay , the honours are all with the Indian captain , Mohammed Azharuddin . |