Example sentences of "but for [det] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The later chapters on the regions of Britain describe particular local features but for each region you should remember that many of the people are engaged in the activities indicated on these pages . |
| 2 | Surgery may have prolonged the careers of some Hollywood actresses but for many people it is not the panacea they may believe it is . |
| 3 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 4 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 5 | But for all Protestants it is the record of scriptures which is crucial . |
| 6 | It 's very high , you know , the interest payments are very high , but for that money you 've borrowed you 'll only pay say , just for a a figure , five hundred pound back for that twenty thousand , five you know , |
| 7 | But for that moment you are there for them . |
| 8 | No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace . |
| 9 | No doubt they think they have the interests of the artist at heart , he wrote , but for that reason they must be avoided like the plague . |
| 10 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 11 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 12 | I wonder if the , the director plans to talk about the cri criteria we will work towards with the independent erm living fund and I wonder if we could possibly accommodate something within the criteria because I think the number of people involved needing adaptation to their home over about five thousand is fairly small but for those people it will make the difference between them being able to remain in their own home or within the community care package , a vast sum of money being needed to be spent on them to accommodate them within residential accommodation . |
| 13 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |
| 14 | Research is continuing into alternative uses of straw — but for most farmers it 's a waste product . |
| 15 | For Iranians he was charismatic , but for most foreigners he seemed rather strange . |
| 16 | In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge . |
| 17 | It was still possible to pay for private treatment in the health service , but for most people it was a case of having treatment " on the national health . " |
| 18 | In some folk it will make them this or that , perhaps , not in every body , but for some folk it will do that , but his greatest purpose in your life and in my life is to reproduce Jesus Christ to make us like him . |
| 19 | This indicates that acinar cells in pancreatitis retain their responsiveness to direct secretory stimulation but for some reasons they become ‘ resistant ’ to the stimulation in vivo . |
| 20 | But for some women it 's the preferred option . |
| 21 | The evidence will usually be contained in a written report , but for some students it may be more suitable to present this evidence orally . |
| 22 | Such human resources were soon to be available elsewhere — notably in Japan — but for some decades they guaranteed to Europe and North America a monopoly of technical invention and discovery . |
| 23 | But for some variables we do , and some economists have used the available data to carry out these tests of the rational expectations hypothesis . |
| 24 | We all joke about shopping till we drop but for some people it 's a reality . |
| 25 | But for some people it 's not easy to discuss it . |
| 26 | Britain 's biggest flower show opened today , but for some people it 's meant a special outing for the last two weeks . |
| 27 | The film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine was a huge success , but for some people it left too many questions unanswered . |
| 28 | I adore what other players get from Marshall amps but for some reason they 've never done the same for me , so this one 's going to have to prove itself , the same as the rest . |
| 29 | But for some reason they did n't , for some reason I do n't know , for some reason they sort of burrowed into the of the earlier range , causing a couple of hundred years later in the early seventeenth century , absolute disaster because the whole of that range began to settle down . |
| 30 | But for some reason they feel that they 're not as hot on employer work or something like that , so one of the targets might be to get them more used to dealing with employers is to go out and see more , and to set time |