Example sentences of "[prep] [num] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the death happens after 12/11/74 but before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , the termination of his interest is not a chargeable transfer . |
| 2 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 3 | To overcome this , some employers operate a policy a common retirement age of 65 but with an option to retire up to five years earlier if the employee wishes . |
| 4 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 5 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 6 | Hindenburg was elected President of the Republic in 1925 ; he was re-elected in 1932 but in the following year , by then virtually senile , he was persuaded to appoint Adolf Hitler chancellor . |
| 7 | The paradox of Pius XII 's reign was the acceptance of chunks of a new model — the encouragement of modern biblical scholarship in the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu , of participant liturgical reform in Mediator Dei , of an increasingly multi-faceted lay apostolate — together with slightly ineffectual but still painful attempts to silence Congar and many others ( the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin most of all ) , the signing of highly reactionary concordats with Spain and Portugal , and an even greater stress on Marian devotion ( culminating not only in the definition of the Assumption in 1950 but in the ‘ Marian Year ’ of 1954 ) . |
| 8 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 9 | – and k are correct ( but insignificantly different from zero ) on the first repetition , and are significantly different from zero but of the wrong sign on the second repetition . |
| 10 | Singapore had been under Japanese occupation from 1942 but by the time Bernard reached there it was under the control of the British Military Administration . |
| 11 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 12 | Rates had cost £14,093 million to collect in 1988-89 but in the following year when they were replaced , the collection of the poll tax and non-domestic rates cost Scottish taxpayers £23,735 million . |
| 13 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 14 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 15 | In South Wales voluntary liquidations dropped from 311 to 284 but in the Midlands they rose from 1,756 to 1,773 . |
| 16 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 17 | Normally , CGA can resolve 640 by 200 but on the Zenith it runs at 640 by 400 , which gives nice looking text in Text mode . |