Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you get something like this you always get souvenir hunters but the ship itself is the property of the Receiver of Wreck and it is theft to take anything from it . |
| 2 | Dr Smith explained that MB Group , formerly Metal Box , had identified Caradon 18 months ago as a suitable means of expanding into building products but the company had had to reorganise itself and create a new management team to make the current deal possible . |
| 3 | Butcher , 34 next month , is under contract for the rest of the season with First Division Sunderland but the Japanese are confident it wo n't be a problem . |
| 4 | Some of the old skill is perpetuated on the island as a cottage industry but the patterns are now used and often machine-knitted by mainland manufacturers . |
| 5 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 6 | Cornelius would have liked to have spoken more with the ambulance driver but the signal faded away . |
| 7 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 8 | Obviously all cases are not single remedy prescriptions but the principles of changing medicines and the interspersing of nosodes is no different from centesimals . |
| 9 | Bienvida pressed the light switch but the bulb was long used-up and no one had replaced it . |
| 10 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 11 | The Cathedral arms were placed on the largest candles — not the tapers which the pious burnt in the side chapels but the candles which were placed on the high altar . |
| 12 | The court recognised , however , that circumstances may arise which require not merely the carrying out of a fresh balancing exercise but the disclosure of documents within this otherwise immune class because of some yet more potent countervailing public interest . |
| 13 | I do like wedding cake but the only thing I do n't like in some cakes is ch |
| 14 | And possibly it was also significant that after the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment ( RARDE ) forensic team had identified the tiny fragment of micro-circuitry as part of the bomb 's triggering mechanism , it was not the Scottish police who discovered the source of the murder weapon but the CIA 's intelligence analysts . |
| 15 | Such a measure would normally require independent shareholder approval but the exchange has waived this . |
| 16 | There had been some good gangster films but the long-term significance of the genre lay really in its impact on contemporary American cinema generally , for it had taught Hollywood the dramatic possibilities of urban life . |
| 17 | The case was listed as ‘ for mention ’ at an Old Bailey court but the judge apologised and said that defendants appeared before him because of an administrative error . |
| 18 | The latter took the attitude that the DC-10 satisfied the requirements of the Federal Airworthiness Regulations but the Dutchmen stood their ground and countered that the requirements were inadequate . |
| 19 | There was fourteen feet of snow floods but the main thing about these people , they took their jackets off and got stuck in and they became special people because they laid the foundation of the welfare state that everybody else in this room g gained out of . |
| 20 | Characterization of these cDNAs demonstrated that both encoded the same protein sequence but the shorter RACE product was the result of oligo-dT primer annealing to a short A rich sequence within the 3' untranslated region that does not have an identifiable polyadenylation signal associated with it ( data not shown ) . |
| 21 | There is some correspondence between the two maps in the Mutoko District but the main correlation is between actual erosion and land tenure systems . |
| 22 | Not only is the extent of deforestation variable but the reasons why it is occurring also vary from region to region . |
| 23 | Zips : there is a good-sized zip baffle but the zip did tend to catch at times when pulling from the inside . |
| 24 | Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence . |
| 25 | A good working dog — at least one is essential for any stock farmer but the Hauxwells did n't always have much luck in finding the right one . |
| 26 | He paused at the bedroom door but the vague shape amid the bedclothes did not speak or stir . |
| 27 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 28 | They are the size and shape of chipolata sausages but the most extraordinary colour , slaty metallic blue . |
| 29 | Germany and France remain Scotland 's dominant export markets but the Netherlands continues to show significant growth . |
| 30 | We found one part of the delivery bed in the labour ward but the other part turned up in the children 's ward . |