Example sentences of "but [pron] is [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large .
2 CAR co-ordinator Rod Jones said : ‘ I thought it would be a good idea for baby Bogdan to join us but he is booked for hospital tests next week .
3 Reefer And The Model has its flaws , but it is trying for something extra .
4 The arts world does not expect to resolve its funding problems by a change of government , but it is hoping for a more civilised political climate .
5 The Conservative Party is not looking for experts , but it is looking for men and women who have a good working knowledge of contemporary politics and a proven track record of experience in the party , and who above all know their own minds .
6 I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself .
7 But it is heading for another record if the local newspapers are to be believed : that for sweatshops employing cheap , illegal , mainly female and immigrant workers who assemble the micro-electronics parts .
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