Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 2 | Eating the right kind of food and having a balanced diet is important not only for weight control but for the well-being of skin , hair and every other part of us that we tend to treat in terms of beauty rather than health care . |
| 3 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 4 | I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children . |
| 5 | There follow accounts not only of the four voyages of Christopher Columbus but of the life of Cortez and conquest of Mexico , followed by specialised essays on the peoples and art of Mexico , Central America , Peru and Amazonia , with particular emphasis on the art of the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon , in which the Barbier-Mueller Museum holdings are particularly rich . |
| 6 | The legacy of apartheid is not only within the borders of South Africa but in the region . |
| 7 | Opals occur in several parts of North America but as a rule these are only of common , non-precious character . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether I 've spoken out of place because I 'm not a member of Salisbury park but on the assumption that erm that we would have to share in the |
| 9 | They differ not in respect of reaction patterns but in the economic characteristics of the market concerned , and it is a matter of fact , not logic , to decide which model is appropriate for any particular market under study . |
| 10 | That reform will be based not on the discriminatory attitudes of Mr. MacSharry but on a sensible policy of supporting agriculture fairly throughout the Community , bringing agriculture closer to the market and ensuring that the environment is a central concern of the CAP . |
| 11 | He told of the Black Sea fishing collective where the catch was counted not in kilos of fish flesh but in the grams of the salted roe of the sturgeon . |
| 12 | ‘ The Smiths are another good example of that : a totally English sort of pop band but with an incredible gift for creating their own sound . |
| 13 | The Royal Commission ( 1949 , Chapter 15 ) while uncertain that the trend of ‘ national intelligence ’ really was downwards , felt that ‘ it is clearly undesirable for the welfare and cultural standards of the nation that our social arrangements should be such as to induce those in the higher income groups and the better educated and more intelligent within each income group to keep their families not only below replacement level but below the level of others ’ . |
| 14 | In Burundi , he told a congregation that the solution to Africa 's demographic problem lay not in artificial means of birth control but in the more economical use of land . |
| 15 | This miscalculation of letting the value of sterling appreciate led not so much to a slim-down of manufacturing industry but to the closure of whole plants . |
| 16 | These technologies could be said to be neo-Fordist — that is they make use of information technologies but within a framework determined in the Fordist era . |
| 17 | I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land . |
| 18 | Example 2:1 Parcels clause of office suite ALL THAT suite of rooms on the floor of the building known as ( excluding the outer faces of the walls enclosing the said building and its roof and roof structure but including the structure supporting the floor of the said rooms ) and for the purpose of identification only edged in red on the attached plan Example 2:2 Parcels clause of open land ALL THAT parcel of land in and numbered on the Ordnance Map ( 1968 edition ) for the said district a copy of which is attached hereto ( including the entirety of the hedge and ditch on the western boundary of enclosure number but excluding the entirety of the hedges and ditches on the northern boundaries of the said enclosures and the entirety of the road on the southern boundaries thereof ) Example 2:3 Parcels clause of building excluding airspace ALL THAT building known as shown edged red on the attached plan but excluding the airspace lying above the existing roof of that building together with a right for the tenant with or without workmen to enter that airspace for the sole purpose of inspecting the building or carrying out any works for which the tenant is liable under this lease Example 2:4 Parcels clause with details of boundaries ALL THAT the floor of the building known as ( " the property " ) including ( i ) all non-loadbearing walls situated wholly within the red edging on the attached plan ( ii ) one half ( severed vertically ) of all non-loadbearing walls separating the property from any other part of the building ( iii ) all plaster or other decorative finish applied to any wall bounding the property and not included in paragraphs ( i ) or ( ii ) above or applied to any column or loadbearing wall within the property ( iv ) the whole of all doors door frames windows window frames ( including mastic joints or seals ) bounding the property ( v ) all ceilings bounding the property and any void between any suspended ceiling and the structural slat above ( vi ) all floor finishes and floor screeds including raised floors and floor jacks supporting such floors ( vii ) all light fittings and air conditioning units incorporated in any ceiling but not any other part of the air conditioning system |
| 19 | During the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries cash cropping gradually increased , including the resumption of coffee cultivation but on a much more limited basis than hitherto . |
| 20 | Handwriting recognition systems experience similar errors to those of OCR systems but to a greater degree . |
| 21 | He was not really thinking about Matthew Choak but about the dead man . |
| 22 | Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library . |
| 23 | In our panel of voters the Conservative lead over Labour increased by 34 per cent amongst Sun/Star readers but by a mere 2 per cent amongst Mirror readers , which suggests the tabloids were able to influence their readers . |
| 24 | That includes striker Tony Cottee , who would have played against Manchester City but for an outburst reported in all the Saturday papers which led to disciplinary action . |
| 25 | In Russia we started not with War Communism but with the so-called New Economic Policy . |
| 26 | By the time he left in 1931 it was clear to him that there was a need for the Dutch to establish trading and cultural links not only with Saudi Arabia but with the Yemen and Hadhramaut , and most of his subsequent career in Arabia was devoted to this end . |
| 27 | This process has been accepted and developed since the first typesetting systems which produced galleys were introduced — indeed an identical process was used with lead type but in an upside down and back to front sort of a way . |
| 28 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 29 | It was always concerned with coal shipment but in the nineteenth century the work of the Tyne Improvement Commission transformed the capacity of the port , and a modern transport infrastructure including a rail network was developed . |
| 30 | A new product release , for example , might be angled for the consumer media along the lines of the second release given above for Brand A. But for the retail trade press much more emphasis will need to be given to discounts , special promotions and advertising — in fact , full details of what 's in it for the retailer . |