Example sentences of "but [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the ballet was first given by the University Ballet as Suite , Opus 3 , but for a revival by the Ballet Club he settled on Suite , ‘ Aus Holbergs Zeit ’ ( ‘ from Holberg 's time ’ ) . |
| 2 | Few will tire of the vast range of activities and attractions offered by these resorts , but for a change , the incomparable beauty of Venice — Italy 's unique waterways city of stunning mirror image landscapes — attracts like a magnet few will resist , and further afield , Veneto unfolds a host of other magical towns and monuments waiting to be explored . |
| 3 | We 've flavoured our truffles with Grand Marnier , but for a change try rum , brandy or the almond liqueur Amaretto di Saronno and shape them into small logs or disc shapes . |
| 4 | For instance , housing units should not only be available for the planners ' notion of the traditional nuclear family , but for a range of different relationships . |
| 5 | His scheme failed , of course , but for a century , from 1749 when Henry Adams started building ships here , it was a flourishing dockyard . |
| 6 | Since 1770 there was a brewer selling ale near an oak tree in the parish , but for a century he had only the company of a blacksmith and a boot and shoe maker . |
| 7 | But for a committee of aristocratic do-gooders , who are in the business of saving children from violence and abuse , to summarily dismiss a massive cash injection on the flimsy grounds of taste suggests they should n't be in a life-and-death business but rather running their local Girl Guides or church fete toffee-apple stalls . |
| 8 | But for a while we found it hard . |
| 9 | But for a while , the frontier of experimental physics will be open to anyone with a fax machine , an electronic mail-box and a reasonably good university laboratory . |
| 10 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 11 | The decision to compete with the fiction lending libraries altered things , but for a while the old remedy of pulping was resorted to , sometimes with amusing consequences as the flood of popular titles reached ever greater strength . |
| 12 | I lived with them , not for nine years , but for a while . |
| 13 | They were n't absolutely sure , but for a while afterwards they appeared to have a small surface radar contact one nautical mile east of Titron . |
| 14 | But for a while Mozart proved that life as a freelance was possible , and others after him — the tougher and more astute Beethoven , for example — took advantage of the possibilities opened up by Mozart 's mould-breaking career . |
| 15 | It was n't the kind of thing that had ever been heard on Detroit radio before , but for a while it seemed to be going okay . |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds terrible but for a while you felt like the local people were to blame . ’ |
| 17 | if it 's big and it looks worth it , but for a pair of gloves to pay a pound postage , er , er , you know |
| 18 | We were led into a room , bare but for a desk , a chair , a row of helmets and a set of bulletproof vests hanging on the wall like carcasses . |
| 19 | But for a can only mean that a " right " ( which perhaps already became a legal " cause " or " case " ) has " vanished " , sc . |
| 20 | Aunt Margaret sat on a bank of primroses , naked but for a cloak of brilliant green loosely slung around her shoulders . |
| 21 | CPMA Managing Director , Nigel Rushman , claims that several other sponsors have already signed for the Sevens spectacular in April at Murrayfield , but for a variety of reasons none has come out of the woods yet . |
| 22 | Thenceforth he played many games not only for the MCC but for a variety of sides . |
| 23 | ‘ But for a variety of reasons , some of them historical , the province has the lowest incidence of breast-feeding in the UK , and probably in Europe . ’ |
| 24 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 25 | But for a generation we have too often tolerated increasing levels of inflation , culminating in the disastrous hyper-inflation of the late '70s . |
| 26 | I watched day and night , but for a year and a half there were no boats . |
| 27 | But for a man who used to prowl around LWT in a kaftan , commissioning series such as Gay Life , Birt has acquired some rather surprising supporters . |
| 28 | From the fading elegance of tree-lined Wood Lane to the Wharf car park is no more than 500 yards for a purposeful crow , but for a motorist on the one-way system it is the better part of a mile . |
| 29 | Er the bodywork 's not brilliant but for a B reg car it 's alright . |
| 30 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |