Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar attitude was shown in 1986 when the Law Lords stated that the Trustee Savings Bank and its assets belonged not to depositors but to the state , shortly before the Bank was floated on the Stock Exchange . |
| 2 | The Church of S. Mary in Cracow is the town church , built in the market place in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries but with the addition of a Renaissance cupola and a Baroque western porch . |
| 3 | The feel of a book in her hands was an ancient solace — not , originally , because of what lay between the covers but as a screen , a defence , a shield . |
| 4 | One of the more important of these was the quota sample , an attempt to approximate to random sampling methods but in a way that minimised the practical difficulties often involved in selecting and contacting respondents , so offering considerable advantages in cost and convenience . |
| 5 | I retraced my steps but to no avail . |
| 6 | But er Nottingham 's er city that 's proud of its nature it 's not generally realized that there 's about a hundred nature reserves in the City of Nottingham maintained by the city of the Notts Wild Life Trust and er this is great on the outskirts but in the city centre there 's too little nature in it . |
| 7 | People buy computers or computer-controlled products not just for offices but for a host of other places such as factories and homes . |
| 8 | The room was twice the size of their back-street Holland Park offices but for a couple of hours all comers were invited to believe that Women 's Word was on the same financial footing as its big competitors . |
| 9 | This method — if it can be properly so called — is usually applied not to the full range of candidates but to the candidates of the voter 's favourite party . |
| 10 | Ultrasonic waves are sound waves but of a higher frequency ( pitch ) than the human ear can hear . |
| 11 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 12 | He saw human beings not as a mass of contradictions but as a particular sort of person — a great nobleman or a poor scholar or a spotty-faced announcer from the BBC . |
| 13 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 14 | Some magnetic mounts could be done in order to fully utilise all available units but with a larger proportion of the work going to the faster unit . |
| 15 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 16 | I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed . |
| 17 | I think I think the only thing that I would disagree with there is that I strongly suspect that a lot of tutors in the university , not just women tutors but across the board , really have little idea of the level of sexual harassment that students that female students have identified as being problem in the questionnaire . |
| 18 | As ever they found drunk drivers but across the area the numbers fell . |
| 19 | Among them are muons , negatively charged particles similar to electrons in all respects but for the fact that they are unstable and are 207 times heavier ; they are in effect ‘ heavy electrons ’ and can replace electrons in atoms to make ‘ muonic atoms ’ . |
| 20 | Indeed some of these reforms were later put forward by the Hussites but with the Hussite Wars , this great period of cathedral building came to an end . |
| 21 | The Japanese will be offered greater access to Europe , on condition that they open their domestic markets — not only for cars but for a whole range of industrial and service sectors — to European businessmen . |
| 22 | ‘ The home videos would allow the whole family to have a good look at our cars but in the relaxing atmosphere of their own homes . ’ |
| 23 | This is evident not just in the personalised PWL number plates on the directors ' cars but in the results . |
| 24 | ‘ If you art hit on the torso , from head to knees but excluding the arms , that is a hit and you must return here for a penalty of five minutes . |
| 25 | If you 're an old age pensioner you can get get concessions but for the average person who who is n't one of those no chance . |
| 26 | In this approach , as with hierarchies but unlike the relational model , there are explicit links between related entity occurrences . |
| 27 | In all walks of life wives have to deal with emergencies but in the farming industry these can occur regularly and can assume considerable importance . |
| 28 | Whenever I passed the Treasurer he was talking not of £s but of the difficulty of ‘ number 14 ’ . |
| 29 | Although a lack of continuity of part-time workers and the difficulty of accruing experience may partially justify higher demands on volunteers , nevertheless the outer London suburbs suspect that the heavy demand of a 2-day-a-week commitment now placed on all new London volunteers stems not from these practical considerations but from a poor stereotypical image of the volunteer and from a negative attitude towards volunteering in general . |
| 30 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |