Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] but [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came later from Archbishop Cassidy but by March , Fr. |
| 2 | Hendry was nowhere near his best in the afternoon session but with Wattana , who beat Jimmy White in the semi-finals also making mistakes , Hendry was able to go into the interval with a narrow 4-3 lead . |
| 3 | Speyside , Orkney and Powys all had a 95% ownership figure but in North Wales and Wester Ross the land owned amounted to only 16% and 6% respectively . |
| 4 | At the time of writing , it seems that the intention is not to assess progress in relation to benchmarks through a blanket testing programme but through assessment by teachers akin to that in GCSE and Records of Achievement . |
| 5 | Er , at the time , we had no response when this was announced by Jim erm , it does in fact clash with our council meeting but in view of the fact that erm our business meeting Se , in December is not until the second Monday , I would be happy to put the erm council meeting back to the following Monday if there was sufficient interest from the members . |
| 6 | Fuzzy Logic … had its first run wherelse but at Cheltenham … |
| 7 | Gubbins was at his finest during World War II ( he mocked his Home Guard service but in truth was an artillery officer at a secret Home Guard site ) . |
| 8 | Further west , the adherence of Count Rainald of Herbauge was vital for Charles 's prospects not only in the region of the lower Loire valley but in Aquitaine , where in July 840 Rainald commanded the garrison of Angoulême . |
| 9 | He put them in central midfield — and he would have been rewarded with a vital home win but for Gary Speed 's late equaliser . |
| 10 | Industrial battles of this sort were almost an everyday event in Griffith 's America but here the bloody scenes are staged not as part of a labour or management film but as part of a vast , elaborate , confused , perhaps ultimately nonsensical and certainly eccentric plea for tolerance . |
| 11 | and not , not only on income tax but on poll tax local tax |
| 12 | This is , of course , another broad-gauge electronics group but with emphasis on telecoms equipment . |
| 13 | In Scotland , Co-ordinated Land & estates ( CLE ) is usually associated with developments such as Clydebank Business Park but in fact property audits have been a metier of this company for the past decade . |
| 14 | Bank correct , sort code I would n't know I assume it is , balance is er correct , er the cards , erm I mean the information 's correct apart from er saying it 's a Barclay Card but in principle yeah I mean all that is correct . |
| 15 | This dispersive approach is different from that pursued in France where the nuclear industry has been maintained as an integrated entity with mixed government/private ownership but with Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique , AEA 's equivalent , in a commanding position over a large part of it . |
| 16 | Research has shown that loneliness is an occupational hazard for the modern housewife , who is often cut off not only from community life but from family life — in the wider sense also . |
| 17 | Yeah , you 've got a ten point scale but with effort we can hardly say hey , there 's a class there and you have n't , you have n't put anybody down as poor ! |
| 18 | Hence the government had a major role to play not simply through the provision of business training but by means of supplying financial incentives through the taxation system . |
| 19 | The disadvantage of the method is the requirement that the sample must be in tube form but in other respects the method has many advantages . |
| 20 | Lilla was not in fact made for Penrhyn Quarry but for Cilgwyn Quarry . |
| 21 | It turned out that it was n't sited in farming country but in Main Street , Hull . |
| 22 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 23 | Other studies have shown similarly extensive local group activity but in Birmingham , only about one-third were politically active and most of these ( 63 per cent ) were involved only with a single issue . |
| 24 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 25 | The analysis of required skills ought in principle to have an ergonomics input but in practice it is usually done on the basis of experience of similar system designs in the past . |
| 26 | They frequently inhabited the same Soho haunt but at Muriel 's , where they vied with each other in buying bottles of champagne , they often occupied different ends of the room . |
| 27 | Those two cases were concerned not with Sunday trading but with restrictions upon working hours on Sundays ; but the Advocate General was plainly influenced by the strong similarity between those cases and the Torfaen case . |
| 28 | — A bit like a car boot sale but for clothes and it happens indoors . |
| 29 | But this particular county is extremely well covered by special forms of countryside protection both through national park , heritage coast , A O N B and as was mentioned in a rather a throwaway fashion but in terms of grade one , two and three A O N agricultural land . |
| 30 | With the final removal of Bute from the king 's advisers in 1765 George Grenville forced Mackenzie 's removal , but in the 1776 administration of William Pitt , first Earl of Chatham , he was reinstated as lord privy seal for Scotland for life , at the same £3,000 salary but without power . |