Example sentences of "their [noun sg] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
| 2 | Their alternative name , Vlah ( Wallachian ) , suggests their origin but by the nineteenth century most had become Hellenised , speaking and acting as intermediaries between the Greek clergy and their Serbian parish priests . |
| 3 | She accompanies Lucie and her child to Paris during the Reign of Terror , when Darnay has been imprisoned , and forcibly prevents Madame Defarge from discovering their escape but at the cost of her own hearing ( she is permanently deafened by the accidental firing off of Mme Defarge 's pistol during their struggle ) , TTC i 4 et seq . |
| 4 | Aye , there was er a Billy , a Harry , and er there was another lot come , I c I just ca n't remember their name but after the First World War this Billy used to come round this part and collect cast horses . |
| 5 | Swindon tried to play their game but in the first half did n't have much joy … |
| 6 | It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but on the contrary ; their social being that determines their consciousness . |
| 7 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 8 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 9 | They wished to be ‘ good socialists ’ , working hard for their country but without the burden of excessive , leftist political campaigns . |
| 10 | The demand which grew up amongst Congregationalists and , to a lesser degree , Baptists was not for a radical shift in the nature of their worship but for the external embellishment of traditional worship : flowers , organs and stained glass , but not chants , Holy Tables and liturgical seasons . |