Example sentences of "but the [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course this makes sense in the case of insanity , automatism or involuntary movement but the range of factors over which one has no control is obviously wider than such clear instances of total lack of control . |
| 2 | These findings support the view that it is not the boundary of clauses per se but the boundary of units of information which is a major determinant of the units involved in language comprehension . |
| 3 | A wider choice of food is provided but the availability of meals to non-residents may be limited . |
| 4 | The court recognised , however , that circumstances may arise which require not merely the carrying out of a fresh balancing exercise but the disclosure of documents within this otherwise immune class because of some yet more potent countervailing public interest . |
| 5 | I am not proposing a free-for-all , but the admission of children to certain pubs on the application of the licensee and the approval of the local licensing bench . |
| 6 | The mere issue of matrimonial proceedings for a property adjustment order does not automatically sever a joint tenancy ( Harris v Goddard [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1203 ) but the issue of proceedings under s17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 can cause severance to occur ( Re Draper 's Conveyance [ 1969 ] 1 Ch 486 ) as does the bankruptcy of one of the parties ( Re Gorman ( a bankrupt ) [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 616 ) . |
| 7 | The nation-wide state publishing organization , Gosizdat , was responsible for the dissemination of official literature of all kinds , but the flow of materials to the provinces remained very weak even as late as 1923 . |
| 8 | Food will be bought-in at various stages of pre-preparation ; but the operation of shorebases by contractors is at an end . |
| 9 | But the majority of women in all walks of life looked to make their career as housewives . |
| 10 | I can write to the hon. Gentleman with the figures , but the majority of arrivals from Vietnam who are screened are found not to be refugees . |
| 11 | Over the past two decades the resident population in Scottish mental hospitals fell by 20% but the proportion of residents aged 65 or over rose from 45% in 1970 to 66% by 1988 . |
| 12 | All but one of the seventeen MPs mentioned in the preceding three paragraphs had attended Eton , but the proportion of Etonians on the Conservative benches has been dropping steadily ever since the end of the Second World War . |
| 13 | Not only was the number of court cases higher in Sri Lanka than in India , but the proportion of convictions to cases was much lower . |
| 14 | The distribution of sites has the same symmetry as the cubic core , but the occupancy of sites by the two subunits is fairly haphazard ( see Figure ) . |
| 15 | It did an outstanding job there , but the state of roads in the western part where there are areas of high unemployment such as Derry , Tyrone and Fermanagh — as exemplified by the Derry to Strabane road — are still in need of urgent development . |
| 16 | But the relationship of librarians to the developments we have so far examined , including the knowledge and publications explosions , the development of new teaching methods , and the rapid expansion of audio-visual communication media , is something we must now examine in closer detail , so that the later arguments and conclusions of this book can be made clear . |
| 17 | But the bearing of children at advanced ages to satisfy a demand for large numbers of them as , for example , in the Africa region is associated both with higher levels of maternal mortality , early childhood mortality and the morbidity of infants and young children . |
| 18 | But the wave of publications of this kind which began in the 1850s could only gather strength as the century went on and public interest in foreign policy questions grew . |
| 19 | ‘ They play three at the back , but the ability of players like Awford enables them to use it as a springboard for attack as well as a defensive system . |
| 20 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 21 | Good insights into the darker side of Hergé 's career , but the lack of illustrations from the Tintin books cries out from every page |
| 22 | But the procurement of scientists from overseas as a novelty intrigued him . |
| 23 | True , all acts of government policy create a presumption that they will remain in force and are an invitation to the citizen to adapt his private behaviour accordingly ; but the tendency of decisions in the social service field to create vested interests is of a quite peculiar order . |
| 24 | The bill for the retired population would be borne by the working population , but the ratio of contributors to pensioners would slowly worsen so that by 2025 there would be only 1.8 contributors for each pensioner . |
| 25 | If there was no map information available then the order and orientation of the contigs was random , but the order of probes within each contig was stable . |
| 26 | But the selection of areas for testing ( ten subjects in USA , and five in Britain ) implies that certain elements of the curriculum are more important than others . |
| 27 | This activity had been initiated by Eden some years previously but the discovery of hydrocarbons under the North Sea lent impetus to the work . |
| 28 | But the invisibility of women in the sociology of deviance is not simply a mirror of reality . |
| 29 | But the system of laws in place at any one time in a democracy worthy of the name has a permanence about it ; partly due to the formality and bureaucracy of the institutions which sustain it , but , more importantly , because of the hydra-headed nature of the social processes which it facilitates . |
| 30 | The age-old tradition of having one colour per make helps , but the variety of uses to which tractors are put should ensure that they never become facsimiles of each other . |