Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , her thought processes were negative , seeking before all else to draw suspicion away from Barney but lacking the vital scene-of-crime evidence which , if Harris 's attitude was anything to go by , pointed strongly at his guilt . |
| 2 | With his well-practised sardonic glee , Joyce looked forward not only to the destruction of Jewry but denounced the ‘ dribbling old prelates , verminous Bloomsburgians , myopic printers ’ hacks , and every sort of meddlesome old woman , male and otherwise . ’ |
| 3 | East Germany continued to be under Stalin 's control , via Walther Ulbricht but to counter the events in West Germany , East Germany was formally declared to become the German Democratic Republic , in October 1949 . |
| 4 | There was no alternative for Gould but to suppress the 20 plates he had published , refund his subscribers , and go straightaway to Australia to find out what they looked like . |
| 5 | At an extraordinary meeting of WEU Foreign and Defence Ministers on Oct. 29 the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , suggested a gradual approach whereby EC leaders would approve a common European defence policy at the Maastricht European Council meeting in December but leave the details of its implementation for review for at least five years thereafter . |
| 6 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 7 | The Privy Council accepted that the defences of act of God and act of third party prevent a plaintiff from succeeding in a claim based on the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher but held the defendants liable for negligence . |
| 8 | The princesses , who were not in court , admitted assaulting Mrs Swami but contested the frequency of the beatings . |
| 9 | The most consistent reports were of a disturbance at a football match on March 25 in Kavaje ( close to Tirana , the capital ) where members of the crowd chanted slogans expressing support for President Ramiz Alia but attacking the repressive policies of his predecessor Enver Hoxha and the " Hoxha dynasty " . |
| 10 | McAvennie threatened to sue Kamara but dropped the idea when it was established that the injury would not end his career . |
| 11 | He said he had not wanted to upset the head teacher at Hylands but to put the other side of the story . |
| 12 | The Andrews also climbed on Porthmoina Island but left the main cliff , its ravens , badgers and ledges of campion and sea thrift alone . |
| 13 | It is too much to hope that EMI will raid its archives for Solomon 's Chopin , Debussy or Haydn but to keep the work of one of the greatest exponents of the Beethoven sonatas under wraps for so long ( the sonata recordings were last issued in 1972 ) is simply incredible ; especially considering the efforts EMI have gone to in issuing the Beethoven recordings of others . |
| 14 | Originally partnering McGavin up front , Martin was tried wide on the right flank at Shrewsbury but missed the U's latest match against Halifax due to illness . |
| 15 | But I am troubled that he mentions the deaths of British servicemen without any references to the closing of the gates of Mandatory Palestine to the desperate refugees who tried to leave Nazi Germany but found the rest of Europe and the Jewish homeland closed to them . |
| 16 | We have to then work in the future not only to develop South Africa but to develop the region Angola , Mozambique , all the other countries . |
| 17 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 18 | Thrift 's article is not specifically concerned with the UK but discusses the world economy as a whole . |
| 19 | The Government had been due to confirm the route on Wednesday but postponed the details until next week . |
| 20 | America 's economic sanctions failed to dislodge General Manuel Noriega but squeezed the economy dry ; the invasion that did dislodge him left a war-battered city , with some 18,000 people homeless and unemployment soaring . |
| 21 | We got the ferry from Picton but left the car there , the intention being that I would return , take it to Christchurch , and sell it there . |
| 22 | Big'uns are cheaper than Black Orcs but lack the benefit of the extra point of leadership . |
| 23 | In the late seventeenth century too the main road from London to Aberystwyth did not pass through Oxford but followed the present minor road ( B4027 ) to the north , via Islip and Woodstock to Enstone and then via the modern A34 to Stratford-on-Avon . |
| 24 | Young in 1790 gave 10 to 25s ( 50p-£1.25 ) as the range for Birmingham but considered the higher level to predominate , making wages there " the highest in Europe " . |
| 25 | Robson did think of playing Platt alongside Bull but rejected the idea of using two inexperienced players at the same time . |
| 26 | These are the symptoms of ‘ jet-lag ’ , and they are being experienced by more and more people as flights — many no longer a short journey across to France but spanning the globe — become more common . |
| 27 | One was found — ‘ a pragmatic , civilized feminist who did not pretend to understand all that had happened to Laura but had the good sense to see that she was a great deal saner than her parents . |
| 28 | Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey . |
| 29 | So from the first he attempted to make himself master of the city — a prelude to an active policy not only to control Rome but to restore the Papal State to its old frontiers . |
| 30 | The Foster-Rowe company is a new venture which obviously includes Nigel Foster and Ray Rowe but hides the identity of its other two partners , Andy and accountant Jim Brown . |