Example sentences of "but [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But signs of TUC discontent with Labour 's lacklustre performance , despite its commanding opinion poll lead over the Tories , emerged in Brighton before he spoke . |
| 2 | It is true that when historians come to the basic task of source evaluation and exploitation , they will not be able to examine the alterations and check the handwriting but strategies of text analysis are already available which will allow researchers to evaluate authorship and even make judgements on changing style within an individual author 's corpus of text ( Holmes 1991 ) . |
| 3 | But opponents of fox hunting say the video says nothing new and the publicity launch suggests the Hunt Supporters , themselves , are on the run . |
| 4 | The so-called ‘ fifth modernisation ’ , democratisation , appeared to be on the agenda , but groups of student activists soon discovered that this was fraught with difficulty and contradiction . |
| 5 | He added that in Sweden salmonella had been eradicated from poultry by vaccination but cases of food poisoning were still increasing . |
| 6 | Many right-wing back-bench critics of the government ( but supporters of Mrs Thatcher ) could voice their criticism without including her and liked to present her as a political prisoner of Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ . |
| 7 | That may sound silly , but readers of blueprint detective stories want pure detection . |
| 8 | A majority of readers of every one of the major-selling papers thought their own paper was biased — not just readers of the tabloids but readers of quality papers such as the Telegraph and the Guardian . |
| 9 | With doubled CO 2 ( Fig. 3 c ) denitrification again occurred but concentrations of N y lower than about 1p.p.b.v. were maintained until the last 10 days of the simulation when downward transport restored the higher values . |
| 10 | But managers of D M L , the Devonport management firm , were optimistic about the future . |
| 11 | The conceptual distinction between perceptions and attitudes is clear ; but perceptions of party chances or the state of the economy imply an element of approval or disapproval when articulated by the electorate . |
| 12 | Bottlenose and hump-backed dolphins have been seen chasing off shark predators and even killing them , but packs of killer whales can encircle and trap a school of dolphins with a curtain of sound , before selecting a few hapless victims . |
| 13 | Round about Grace herself the great river deposited little but mounds of plastic containers . |
| 14 | But members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site built without Department of Environment grant aid was extremely basic and fell short of the type of accommodation provided on county council-owned sites . |
| 15 | Travel : Low wages , but bags of clout Power and perks keep the hotel porter in business . |
| 16 | This may seem a very gloomy picture , and it is perhaps exaggerated , but leaders of minority groups are encouraging social workers at all levels to make adequate and appropriate provision . |
| 17 | But friends of Countess Spencer say she has told them she is spending the festive season at Mougins in France with her great friend Jacqueline de Ribes . |
| 18 | The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence . |