Example sentences of "but [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sydney : Shares finished marginally weaker but off their lows , with the All Ordinaries index down 3.1 points at 1,772.5 .
2 There is a lot of money to be won this week and people should earn it not only on the course but off it as well . ’
3 In France , Tignes has fair skiing on the glacier , but off piste is feeble .
4 ‘ Search me , squire , ’ I replied , ‘ But off the top of my bonce I 'll hazard a guess how many have masturbated ! ’
5 Altrincham , flirting with danger near the bottom of the GM Vauxhall Conference , are at home to Port Vale ; Yeovil , nearer the top but off the pace , greet Hereford .
6 MOTOROLA 88110 RISC IN PRODUCTION BUT OFF TARGET
7 But off premises , the pocket phone operates as an ordinary cellular phone .
8 They beat Buckinghamshire , by one run and Northumberland by 93 runs , but off the very last ball .
9 She wore a dove-grey Jaeger frock , discreet and asexual , but off an expensive peg .
10 The Braithwaites , Joseph and Daniel , were employed on a regular basis as masons and did a great deal of work , not only on the mine , but off it , such as at Cat Bank where a large amount of walling was required apart from the actual building .
11 A neat move resulted in Kelly 's volley , good to watch but off target .
12 But Off the record detectives refer to the burglary boom as one of Britain 's few growth industries .
13 TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before .
14 Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still .
15 — A bit like a car boot sale but for clothes and it happens indoors .
16 But for many people , the slide into drug use has been to escape other problems — poor living conditions , no real job prospects and broken relationships at home which all lead to feelings of hopelessness and despair .
17 To outsiders , the two events may seem little more than an international organization at work , but for Amnesty members these events are charged with significance .
18 Van Gogh is famous not only for his art , but for his writing .
19 A description of a Tantric painting as a linear diagram may seem uninteresting , but then the effect of such a picture is not meant to be pleasure for the eye alone , but for religious use .
20 But for our present purpose , Parsons ' young friends will be good witnesses for us .
21 Mrs Fraser was suspected in the neighbourhood of being an enemy spy ; presently she remarried — her new husband a jolly , but for the son disturbing wing-commander .
22 So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg .
23 So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg .
24 But for us on earth , wrote Harsnet , the run is not long but short .
25 Impossible to reconcile space suggested by charts and space of room , which is just what I wanted , but for so long did n't know how to arrive at .
26 No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace .
27 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 .
28 But for the time being , with a young family at home , he is very happy to have switched to contract catering .
29 Christmas may seem far away , but for a show of blooming indoor bulbs to gladden the festive season , September is the month to get to work .
30 Flowering , fruiting and informal hedges can be clipped once annually , but for crisp outlines more frequent trimming is needed .
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