Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last he recalled it was not in the Nightingale Gallery but in the one running to the left . |
| 2 | A paltry sum like $1m might simply have been shoved under the boardroom carpet but for a greater scandal : the cost over-run on the World Bank 's new H-Street block . |
| 3 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 4 | If rectification were ordered , the loss would fall not upon the building society but upon the public purse . |
| 5 | Although the ALP suffered an adverse swing of approximately 6 per cent , the most significant gains were made not by the opposition coalition but by the Democrats ( whose share of the vote increased from 6 to 11 per cent ) and by independent and environmental candidates . |
| 6 | No genetic variation has been described at the protein level but at the DNA level an insertion-deletion RFLP is observed with several restriction enzymes . |
| 7 | With 20 minutes gone , his debut might have entered the dream category but for a fingertip save from Andy Goram . |
| 8 | Average milk yields for Red Poll cows in the 1930s were about 3,300kg at 3.64 per cent butterfat , which was better in both respects than the Dairy Shorthorn but below the Lincoln Red . |
| 9 | But it is also the case that suggestions for amalgamation of rural — or , indeed , urban — benches come not from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary but from the magistrates courts committees in the areas concerned . |
| 10 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 11 | Thus TWW had to compete not only with the mundane but necessary business skills of the Harlech consortium but with the presence of famous Welsh names from the arts — Richard Burton , Stanley Baker , Geraint Evans — and the authority of Lord Harlech himself , a former minister and Ambassador to the Kennedy White House . |
| 12 | Positive transfer was , however , observed by Mackintosh and Holgate and by Siegel , the comparison being made in each case with control subjects that received initial training on a discrimination between stimuli other than those that were relevant in the transfer task but with the latter stimuli being present but irrelevant . |
| 13 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 14 | Unbelievably , our boats were still being laid up during the winter months but with a more professional approach being adopted from topside , this policy was soon to be abandoned . |
| 15 | The aim of this book , however , is to look beneath this superstructure , and to describe computers and their variation at a basic hardware level , below the operating system but above the detailed electronics ; we discuss further the nature of this level in § 1.3 . |
| 16 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |
| 17 | This brought an access of homesickness , not for the Yorkshire moors but for the English language , and also for the long days of last summer 's play , for Alexander Wedderburn 's blown-rose full-blooded verse on the Elizabethan terrace at Long Royston , English summer evenings . |
| 18 | The second unit encroaches on the southeast corner of the first and consists of a slightly raised rectilinear platform with rounded corners , aligned on the east-west road but at a different angle to the first unit . |
| 19 | The largest spontaneous demonstrations since the Cultural Revolution erupted not , as usual , on the Beijing campuses but in the provincial universities . |
| 20 | At the seaward end , it is no more than a good stone 's throw from the Atlantic beach but at a higher level , its issuing stream descending through a short wooded ravine to join the waters of the ocean . |
| 21 | I I 've learnt the Pitman school but to a basic level and a long time ago and a lot of it is now forgotten . . |
| 22 | Thereby , in the eyes not only of the United Kingdom but of the world , each of these territories became a sovereign independent state , alias a nation . |
| 23 | I believe that it is in the interests not only of the United Kingdom but of the whole world that we should seek to pursue much more vigorously the possibility of a comprehensive ban on nuclear testing . |
| 24 | Our aim is to ensure that food is wholesome , of high quality and produced as economically as possible and to ensure that , not only in the United Kingdom but in the export market , people have the benefits of an outstanding product . |
| 25 | In recent weeks , I have had the opportunity of discussing the matter not only in the United States but with a number of colleagues in the European Community . |
| 26 | One of them , an ageing villain named Alfred Mathews , was subsequently found and arrested , and in exchange for not being prosecuted , agreed to turn Queen 's evidence and name his accomplices : David Cooper , Michael McMahon and Patrick Murphy , all petty thieves from the East End but with no record of violence . |
| 27 | It may then be extended to non-zero Ri by saying provided that the conditions required for ( 21.27 ) are still fulfilled ( i.e. z is within the wall layer but outside the viscous sub-layer ) . |
| 28 | In Section 21.5 , it was argued that the only length scale relevant to the boundary layer dynamics in the wall region but outside the viscous sub-layer is the distance from the wall y . |
| 29 | ‘ On her wrist was the name Coyle but on the ankle was the name Bursey . |
| 30 | ‘ We use the NMS library but for the Hungarian exhibition books were sent from the Hungarian Embassy in London and the Cultural Attache lent videos . |