Example sentences of "but as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as no one shareholder had control to sell , the Government was able to acquire control of the company 's assets for a fraction of their true value ( and for a fraction of what it would have had to pay on a take-over bid ) . |
| 2 | A fund is in existence to help defray the costs of the Senior Citizens Dinner but as no member has any detailed knowledge of it the chairman will make the necessary enquiries . |
| 3 | A fund is in existence to help defray the costs of the Senior Citizens Dinner but as no member has any detailed knowledge of it the chairman will make the necessary enquiries . |
| 4 | The G.W. condemned stock from all its depots , but as no name is quoted the assumption is that it was from Swindon . |
| 5 | Solution then flows down the capillary and drains round the sides of the bulb back into D , but as no back pressure from the excess solution exists , the volume in D plays no part in determining the flow time t . |
| 6 | We have still to remember its variations , in the changing periods and structures of such societies , but as a categorical distinction it is reasonably clear . |
| 7 | He was ultimately allowed £49,752 of such ‘ pretences ’ , but as an ex gratia payment which did not take in further claims of £46,803 . |
| 8 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 9 | But as the 1980s progressed , the Brick Lane site was becoming more valuable as a potential development area than as a brewery . |
| 10 | But as the Tiananmen movement grew and grew , more and more Hong Kong people were stirred into sympathetic action . |
| 11 | Clarke seemed momentarily to have the legs of Steve Norris , but as the Scarborough forward edged ahead Clarke used his arm to restrain him . |
| 12 | But as the judge quashed the indictment , the men were re-arrested in the dock and four other charges were brought : recruiting persons for training in sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of violent revolution , conspiring to aid foreign military units when they invaded the republic , furthering the aims of communism and soliciting and receiving funds for these purposes from several countries . |
| 13 | But as the subject developed first the term ‘ multinational marketing ’ was coined and then ‘ global marketing ’ was added to the picture . |
| 14 | Before the campaign opened the key influence on poll awareness was generalized interest in politics , but as the campaign drew to an end media use became more important , especially viewing BBC-TV news ( Table 7.5 ) . |
| 15 | Before the campaign opened the key influence on poll awareness was a generalized interest in politics , but as the campaign drew to an end television viewing became more important . |
| 16 | But as the business grew Mark became ever more restless . |
| 17 | Alfred was like us , cool and real , but as the police moved in on him things became a bit confused . |
| 18 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 19 | Just once there had been a fight but as the then leader of the Louts had , unwittingly , taken on a junior boxing champion , he had ceased appearing . |
| 20 | In the new-technology jobs of banking and computers , where employers are anxious to avoid publicity , most claims are being settled out of court , but as the number of cases increases , litigation could become more popular . |
| 21 | But as the Labour parliamentary front bench scents the thaw , and surveys the possibility of government for the first time in a decade , the party pressures running in favour of detente are increasing . |
| 22 | But as the West German cities of Bremen and Hanover said they could take no more refugees , Berlin was still offering a warm welcome . |
| 23 | But as the Community moved towards the goal of political union the European Parliament would have to give greater co-legislating powers to the Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | But as the shooting and the mopping-up continued yesterday , the prospect of a protracted guerrilla operation began to loom over what the Pentagon had hoped would be a splendid Christmas victory . |
| 25 | Banbridge was receiving 13lb from Clever Folly but as the winner subsequently went on to triumph in the A F Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham , breaking the track record in the process , there is little wrong with the form . |
| 26 | But as the deadline approaches look out for new products , such as cash unit trusts paying interest gross , as the banks and building societies battle to hang on to those deposits . |
| 27 | But as the military confrontations evaporated , the diplomatic stand-off at the Papal mission escalated yesterday , with new Vatican protests at the searching of priests and the frisking of the Papal Nunciate . |
| 28 | In the past this has been countered by the numerous superstitions of the indigenous peoples towards the river dolphins , but as the economic pressures of the commercial fishery become greater , these superstitions are likely to become less respected , especially by the younger fishermen . |
| 29 | But as the air war progresses , new targets become harder to find . |
| 30 | But as the Tory wagon-train breaks away from Mrs Thatcher 's trail , Mr Major 's gentler style inevitably means slacker reins . |