Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] but [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 2 | By 1957 almost half a million French troops , mostly young draftees or reservists but with a substantial leavening of Foreign Legionnaires and other regulars , were fighting a long and brutal war in Algeria against the forces of an independence movement known as the Front de Libération Nationale ( FLN ) . |
| 3 | The first was not so much Offa 's death on 26 or 29 July 796 ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) as the death of Ecgfrith , his successor , 141 days later ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) which threatened all that Offa had struggled to achieve within Mercia and created dynastic uncertainty at the centre of the Mercian polity as royal power was assumed by Coenwulf , a prince claiming descent not from Eowa or Penda but from a certain Coenwealh , allegedly in the genealogies a brother of Eowa and Penda ( see Appendix , Fig. 8 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I had every intention of becoming a pianist or conductor but in a great flash of realisation I decided that I would only ever be a mediocre musician and went off to study drama . ’ |
| 5 | This class includes those shorelines where the exact form is due to neither emergence nor submergence but to a new constructional or tectonic form , e.g. deltas , alluvial plains , outwash plains , volcanoes and faults . |
| 6 | As a result history is driven not by ideas and religion but by the economic basis of our culture . |
| 7 | This is necessary in order to assist in achieving the equivalence of information available in respect of companies not only in the UK and Ireland but throughout the European Community . |
| 8 | Swindon tofday may only be a town in name and profile but by the twenty-first centurythey 're deternmined it 'll be a city to be reckoned with . |
| 9 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
| 10 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 11 | Within weeks individuals made contact , joined together and the Community Campaign against Toxic Waste came into being , quickly enlarged by volunteers from all walks of life , political persuasions , beliefs and qualifications but with a single aim -to stop the incinerators . |
| 12 | The crucial distinction to be drawn within the curriculum is , as I have argued , not between arts and sciences but between the practical and the theoretical . |
| 13 | It needs to have continuity and stability but in the private sector the real difference is the incredible rate of change in the market place . |
| 14 | WILLIAMS : It is with great reluctance that I speak and I beg you to forgive me , but I must tell you it is the Countess of Pembroke , a lady noted for her wit and beauty but of a wanton disposition . |
| 15 | We are redeemed not with silver and gold but with the precious blood of Christ . |
| 16 | Mu , Michelle , Mutty and Michael but on the other hand Michael might have to budge You can change it all I |
| 17 | True , Bernard did want her to be a housewife and mother but at the same time this was Laura 's interpretation of what he wanted and she believed deeply that it was wrong to challenge a husband 's authority . |