Sentence examples for but a paragraph from inspiring English sources

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But a paragraph in a national energy report, like a sentence in a State of the Union Message or a line in a legislative bill, can be a huge boon to a corporation.

In it, Verlaine, "the pitiful brother" (but a paragraph later "the satanic doctor"), complains that Rimbaud's peculiar blend of bad luck and innocence has isolated them and led them into poverty and exile.

The music produced by two violins, a viola and a cello cannot ever sound anything like the music produced by dozens of instruments, but a paragraph or a page from a short story is indistinguishable from a paragraph or a page from a novel.

The court ruled against Lugosi, but a paragraph in its ruling caught the eye of Richman, a Los Angeles-based lawyer then in his mid-20s.

I take a moment to compose myself and dismiss my overactive cinematic imagination, but a paragraph from Gomorrah pops into my head, about how it's better (meaning faster and cleaner) to die from a shot to the head, than one to the heart.

An entire novel is not an appropriate selection for close reading (at any age!), but a paragraph or two is likely more appropriate.

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But within a paragraph it becomes a meditation on Philo of Alexandria, an early Jewish philosopher.

Lots of sensationalist stories and pointing fingers, but hardly a paragraph on age ratings and the responsibility that parents carry as well".

Her speech contained few references to her father's newspapers, but in a paragraph that referred to the Leveson inquiry, she said that "an unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions" meant that it was "very difficult to argue for the right outcome, which must be the fierce protection of a free press and light touch media regulation".

Based on reading each of the proposals, the amount of space dedicated to the qualitative research in the proposal was categorised as one sentence, more than one sentence but less than a paragraph, more than one paragraph but not in its own section, or having its own section with its own heading.

Mr. McCain's aides challenged the statement, saying Mr. Bauer not only reviewed the speech in advance but also added a paragraph to it.

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