Example sentences of "in [noun] [noun] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 2 | A list of the most important mosaics in each sequence should include the following : ( i ) in that of octagonal panelled designs , all of those so described in appendix E but for the mosaics from Fordington High Street , Dorchester ; and Dyer Street , Cirencester ( these , although showing 3 x 3 arrangements of octagons , suggest , in their decoration , rather different concerns to those illustrated elsewhere ) ; ( ii ) in the sequence of square and rectangular panelled grid arrangements , the four examples mentioned above , plus other possible examples from the Three Cups Inn site ( Barnard 's garden ) , Colchester ( pI . |
| 3 | The powerful influence of the Bantu press was to undermine most other African attempts at a truly independent press not only in South Africa but in the two Rhodesias as well . |
| 4 | The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ . |
| 5 | As detailed in earlier chapters , governors should be involved in the School 's Development Plan which must lay out both short-term aims and longer-term objectives in priority order but with an inbuilt degree of flexibility , should circumstances dictate a change of plan at any time . |
| 6 | Another change has been extensive draining of moorland ( Stewart and Lance , 1983 ) and this allied to increased sheep numbers and other factors ( Anderson and Yalden , 1981 ) has led not only to a decrease in moorland vegetation but to a reduction in wildlife , notably grouse . |
| 7 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 8 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette . |
| 9 | The paths all lie close to 90°E. b , VGP paths for model W. They all lie close to 90°W , opposite to model E. The difference arises because flux reversal initiates in the Southern Hemisphere in model E but in the Northern Hemisphere in model W. The longitude variation of VGP paths for both models is due in part to differences in the VGPs ' starting longitude . |
| 10 | In part that may reflect real changes in public opinion but to a large extent it merely reflects sampling and other administrative errors . |
| 11 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 12 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |