Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 2 | One hypothesis , which was first advanced by Deschner in 1975 and has recently been reproposed by Rozen , is that the same type of proliferative anomalies are also present in the second subgroup but in a localised rather than diffuse form . |
| 3 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 4 | The Church of S. Mary in Cracow is the town church , built in the market place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries but with the addition of a Renaissance cupola and a Baroque western porch . |
| 5 | Ironically it was Distillery who settled into the game and looked dangerous in a brief spell midway through the first half but in the space of two minutes Stephen Baxter 's shot was touched away by Kevin McKeown and midfielder Philip Mitchell 's header landed on the roof of the net . |
| 6 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 7 | The cables are worked in the same way as the first sample but after the initial six rows , the four stitches at the left are crossed , with two-over-two stitches to the right , then after another five rows , the four stitches at the right are crossed with two-over-two stitches to the left . |
| 8 | Bull , whose next goal for Wolves wil be his 200th in the League , would have equalised in the 65th minute but for a bad bounce on the edge of the six-yard area . |
| 9 | Maybe not the first tour but by the second tour , I think it began to get decadent . |
| 10 | In the West the personal name is in first position but in the old Communist states the interests of the state are paramount , and those of the individual last in line . |
| 11 | Jason Ratcliffe , 22 , would surely have reached the 1,000 mark for the first time but for the early-season decision to spread Asif Din 's role as a limited-overs opener into championship cricket . |
| 12 | This atmospheric Grade II building — dating from the late 17th century but with a primarily Georgian bar and substantial Victorian additions — is a prime tourist attraction . |
| 13 | So , what I want to do is to er really repeat what I said last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 14 | So what I want to do is to go back over what I was talking about last week but with a different emphasis . |
| 15 | Stockton finished third from bottom in the A Division last season but with the signing of left arm spinner Masood Anwaar as their professional for 1992 they could well be vying for a place in the top five in September . |
| 16 | The picture may become clearer next week but with the Jaguar share price at this level , shareholders should now take some profits . |
| 17 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 19 | Carol Salmon , who runs the inn with her husband Richard , said : ‘ We had the planning permission last year but with the recession we thought we should hold on to our money . ’ |
| 20 | Shortly before this stage — around the tenth year but with a wide variability — the hypothalamus , a small area at the base of the brain , somehow " triggers " a small gland just below it ( the pituitary gland ) into producing two hormones which it has not previously produced . |
| 21 | Steffisburg has in its historic centre some buildings of considerable character : a church , rebuilt in the late seventeenth century but with a Romanesque tower that has a wooden belfry and spire ; and two adjacent buildings known as the Hochhuser , the larger of which is transitional between the Bernese farmhouse and the country mansion styles and has a hipped roof on a really magnificent scale . |
| 22 | The 33-year-old 's personal life floundered after his US Masters triumph last April but as a professional golfer , he was second only to Nick Faldo . |
| 23 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |