Example sentences of "but for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who work with Ingrid are carefully chosen , not for their formal training ( apart from Deirdre , none of them has any ) but for their eye . |
| 2 | Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … . |
| 3 | They are judged , not for intellectual elegance but for their ability to deliver . |
| 4 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 5 | Though they had to be 100 per cent fit , and the training was gruelling , officers and men were chosen not just for their brawn but for their intelligence , integrity , self-reliance , and self-discipline . |
| 6 | It was one of the tragedies of the Second Empire that Napoleon III and Eugénie who were fond , perhaps over-fond , parents whose joy lay in their child , should be remembered not for their family virtues but for their public ‘ vices ’ — real or supposed . |
| 7 | Although there will be plenty of examples of his deep love of women , not merely for their sexual attraction but for their companionship , conversation and intelligence , he can be struck by an infatuation for women he has never met . |
| 8 | But for their own Scottish team , instead of ‘ Scotland the Brave ’ or some other suitable Scottish air to give a lift to players and spectators alike , they fell back on ‘ God Save the Queen ’ . |
| 9 | But for their middle-class , middle-aged , CD-buying target audience , such shows , which tend to concentrate on either the roots of popular music or music from the less-developed world , offer the chance to explore the very ‘ essence ’ of a musical culture . |
| 10 | " Where should we all be but for their prayers ? " |
| 11 | Monmouth Unionists backed another fund , but for their own candidate they chose the nephew of their president , Lord Tredegar . |
| 12 | Field officers rely on senior officials not simply for their own advancement , but for their support in disputes with dischargers and in cases which field staff wish to see taken to court . |
| 13 | Here , we move to a further degree of abstraction , since things are no longer of interest for some essence they may possess but for their exchangeable aspects . |
| 14 | ( They had been suspended after the fall of the tyranny in 510 , but for their re-creation in the year 453 see Ath . |
| 15 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 16 | We obtain a national picture of crime and people 's attitudes towards it from the three BCS , but for their critics these surveys have emphasised this national picture at the expense of the inner cities , which suffered more than their fair share of crime . |
| 17 | Mars ' products are similarly not valued on the Continent for the quality of their chocolate , but for their ingredients . |
| 18 | But she would often tell friends how keenly she felt a responsibility not just for her employees ' jobs , but for their health , their mortgages , their children 's educations and the entire survival of the rural community in Carno . |
| 19 | In every case , then , the devices of poetry are studied nut for themselves , but for their defamiliarizing capacity . |
| 20 | Christmas will be spoilt not just for those involved but for their friends and relatives . |
| 21 | but for their intervening . |
| 22 | The unskilled or raw immigrants from the countryside were proud of their strength , and came from an environment where hard labour was the criterion of a person 's worth and wives were chosen not for their looks but for their work-potential . |
| 23 | They 've juggled to entertain at college balls and parties this summer , but for their latest production , their first in a theatre , for safety fire has been replaced by ultra violet light . |
| 24 | I think the actions of the security firm at the time were very quick , and but for their actions I feel we may have had far more serious consequences than we actually did . ’ |
| 25 | But for their own they put their hands on their hearts . |