Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun pl] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whereas they concluded from this that it was desirable to devise institutional checks on the will of the majority , Rousseau accepted the principle of majority decisions but tried to envisage conditions under which the majority would truly represent the community as a whole and not simply a collection of group or individual interests . |
| 2 | We agree that care should be taken over terminology in the interpretation of fluoroscein angiograms but contend that the use here was accurate . |
| 3 | It is made up of coeval ignimbrites ( K/Ar date 4.65–6.7 Myr , from five dates over a 50-km section ) and a large batholith containing a variety of rock types but dominated by granite ( SiO 2 70% ) with an 40 Ar/ 36 Ar age of 5.180.05Myr . |
| 4 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |
| 5 | In that case a creditor of the husband threatened the institution of bankruptcy proceedings but agreed to desist if the debtor 's wife provided certain security for the debt . |
| 6 | In the second report , also commissioned by the Institute of Manpower Studies but carried out jointly with the Equal Opportunities Commission , examination of merit pay schemes in Britain showed that PRP ‘ can systematically disadvantage women employees ’ . |
| 7 | It is run by the National Association of Funeral Directors but has no set packages . |
| 8 | One subject used a wide range of accident estimates but gave a risk rating of one at all 40 junctions . |
| 9 | It 's not the most sophisticated of art programs but does allow you to animate frames and add sound . |
| 10 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 11 | The walls ( the stave screens ) are self-contained units and rest upon the ends of timber sleepers but do not take the weight or thrust . |
| 12 | In Jackson v. Rotax Motor and Cycle Co. ( 1910 C.A. ) the buyer accepted as satisfactory the first delivery of motor horns but claimed to reject the later deliveries because they were not of merchantable quality . |
| 13 | At the top of the scale those whose holdings exceeded £5,000 formed from 3.5 to 8.1 per cent of account holders but held from 35 to 48.5 per cent of total stock . |
| 14 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 15 | It used to be a couple of coastguard cottages but has now been converted and sleeps twenty five in twin bedded rooms . |
| 16 | He was of course bound by the Court of Appeal decisions but managed to construe the memorandum of agreement so as to render clause 6 ineffective in fettering the right of the landlord to serve a notice to quit after the landlord had ceased to be a road widening authority . |