Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had to be Windsor , too — not Balmoral or Sandringham but the castle that goes right back to the Normans — and the Queen 's favourite chapel , stripped to a skeleton of its former self . |
| 2 | Over the Golden Gate bridge are the hills of northern Sonoma County and the town of Healdsburg , less well known than the Napa and Sonoma but the wine centre for three valleys — Dry Creek , Russian River and the Alexander , all major viticulture locations . |
| 3 | Hornbills are distributed over much of Asia and Africa but the two Sulawesi species are unique to the island . |
| 4 | The USA and Japan both got their new products to market faster than the UK and FRG but the differences are not statistically significant . |
| 5 | Pupils will be encouraged to use printed lists of keywords when the system is fully operational , One difficulty here is to create keys for subjects which begin with the same first three letters e.g. FARMING and FAROES but the school librarian sees this as a useful information problem for pupils to tackle . |
| 6 | The forces are larger than in the experiment of Roll , Krotkov , and Dicke but the torque can only be reversed by bodily rotating the apparatus , which gives large and irreversible effects that vitiate the method . |
| 7 | A service by flying boat was scheduled to commence on the July 1950 between Southampton and Leith but the service was postponed indefinitely due to lack of support . |
| 8 | Two further regional committees were continued for Scotland and Wales but the committees for Europe , science and technology , race relations and the nationalized industries were discontinued as they would duplicate aspects of the work of the new committees . |