Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] but [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a particular example of negligence liability but is owed only to employees and not to independent contractors . |
| 2 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 3 | The report on East Cleveland 's housing shortage was made at a forum in Skelton which revealed that there are : 114 homeless families in East Cleveland 2000 households on the council 's waiting list Only 35 new private houses built in the area in 1991–2 Langbaurgh council has £11m from the sale of council houses but is not allowed to spend it on building new ones . |
| 4 | He missed the second half of last season after undergoing the latest in a series of knee operations but is now determined to improve on only 12 first-class wickets . |
| 5 | AI welcomed the releases and the commutation of death sentences but is concerned that many thousands of prisoners , arrested or captured in the context of the civil war which began in 1975 , remain unaccounted for . |
| 6 | The lateral arm plates are wide and the area where the spines articulate is not raised up as much as in species like O. bidentata but is flatter . |
| 7 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 8 | Mark Morris 's Motorcade is a gentle enough piece , blending neatly with SaintSaens music but is too subtle an opener . |
| 9 | Lenders have confirmed that they do not seek possession where the borrower has suffered a severe reduction in income support but is still making a regular and routine payment , nor will they repossess — which is the point that I was making — where income support is paid direct to them . |
| 10 | This is the equivalent of a 1p rise in income tax but is postponed until April 1994 , as is VAT on fuel . |
| 11 | The service will be attended by pupils from William Cassidy but is open to the whole community to celebrate education . |
| 12 | The service will be attended by pupils from William Cassidy but is open to the whole community to celebrate education . |
| 13 | The following works are among the more important to the local historian : Archaeology by Warwick Bray and David Trump ( Penguin Books 1970 ) ; Architecture by John Fleming and others ( penguin Books 1966 ) ; Field Names by John Field ( London 1972 ) ; British Folk Customs by Christina Hale ( London 1978 ) — a related book , British Folk Tales and Legends by Katharine Briggs , London 1977 , is not in dictionary format but is valuable ; Genealogy by Terrick FitzHugh ( Sherborne , new edition 1988 ) ; Heraldry by Stephen Friar ( Sherborne 1987 ) , ; Burke 's General Armory ( London , reprint 1984 ) ; Historical Slang ( London 1972 ) ; Nursery Rhymes by Iona and Peter Opie ( Oxford , revised 1977 ) ; English Place Names by Eilert Ekwall ( Oxford , 4th edition 1960 ) ; English Plant Names by Geoffrey Grigson ( London 1974 ) ; Religions by J.R . |
| 14 | It is set in South Africa but is not primarily political and is not about apartheid ; however , it subtly reflects the racial and social strains in South African society . |
| 15 | Julie , 23 , pictured , who lives in Mossley Hill but is originally from Sunderland , has just completed her first year at Alsop Wilkinson after law studies at Birmingham Polytechnic and Chester Law School . |
| 16 | In particular chlorine the most dominant element in sea water it 's quite common in river water but is extremely rare in the rocks that form the earth 's crust . |
| 17 | Fresco also has a model view controller — an idea borrowed from the object-oriented SmallTalk language which does n't occur in XT intrinsics but is found in other technologies like the Andrew toolkit . |
| 18 | The best on road type is the XC type 4 as fitted on 110 vehicles , for more off road use the XCL offers good on and off road manners but is a directional tread pattern and has to be fitted the correct way round . |
| 19 | This average is close to M w but is usually smaller and depends on the method used to measure D. |
| 20 | The Trimdon seven , incidentally , are joined by Hartlepool 's Keith Nobbs who like them went to Sedgefield Comp but is definitely a foreigner . |
| 21 | This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society . |