Example sentences of "but [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 2 | A torn hamstring in his final training session consigned him to a seat in the stand in the Olympic Stadium , but with Barcelona on the horizon he 's hungry for the big stage again . |
| 3 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 4 | The cost of such an item in eleventh-century England is not known , but in Normandy in the 1040s it could be £7 . |
| 5 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 6 | In Scotland , the universities had always had strong scientific and philosophical traditions ; but in England at the beginning of the century neither of the two universities was a centre of scientific research . |
| 7 | After 1789 politicians were the main architects of French nationalism , but in Russia at the start of NEP Marxist internationalism and Trotsky 's theory of permanent revolution still imbued most leading Bolsheviks , with the significant exception of Stalin , whose treatment of Georgia in 1922 was to shock Lenin . |
| 8 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 9 | But in Newmarket with the racing stables . |
| 10 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 11 | If the Fruity Party fields three candidates in a constituency election ; if I give my first preference to Apple and second to Banana ; if I give my third preference not to Cherry but to Hazel of the Nutty Party ; and if finally , that third preference becomes an effective vote , it will unquestionably be a vote against the Fruity Party that I was supporting with my first and second preferences . |
| 12 | Another excitement in 1984 was the re-emergence of the subject of mines , this time not in the Gulf but across Arabia in the Red Sea . |
| 13 | A month ago Nigel Spink was Villa 's first choice but at Birmingham at the Coca Cola Cup Spink was injured and Bosnich took over amidst some prophetic words . |
| 14 | He then said playing wise he does not want to play anywhere else but at Leeds for the rest of his career , said that Elland Rd was the best arena for a footballer bacuase the atmosphere is so special . |