Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] but [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 2 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 3 | Aquileia was a Roman centre and the original basilican cathedral was erected early in the fourth century but was destroyed by Attila the Hun a few years later . |
| 4 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 5 | The church itself dates from the fifth century but was altered in the fourteenth century . |
| 6 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 7 | Mrs Mandela and Mrs Falati were given jail sentences last year but were released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 8 | Mr Birt became the £140,000-a-year director general at the end of last year but was employed by his own company to gain tax advantages . |
| 9 | Gimenez should have fought Eubank last year but was bypassed and instead , the tragedy of Eubank v Michael Watson II was enacted . |
| 10 | This was suspended during the Long Parliament in the middle of the seventeenth century but was restored by the Clergy Act 1661 . |