Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] but [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accruals figures will not replace the cash accounting basis but supplement it ( see also Brought To Account , featuring Michael Lawrence , Prudential 's finance director , on p 26 ) . |
| 2 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 3 | Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who 've bought the Rainbow seat . |
| 4 | The colonists had enough newspapers to take any visiting Englishman aback , and were developing industries fast enough to disturb the balance of the integrated commercial system : in 1699 Americans were forbidden to spin woollens for export , even to another colony ; in 1732 a similar limitation was placed on the manufacture of hats and caps ; and in 1750 the Iron Act allowed them to smelt iron ore into pig iron but forbade them to go any further in processing it , though in the event the American colonies were producing more iron and steel than Britain by 1775 . |
| 5 | He did not in the simplest sense romanticise fact but used it as a way of making his readers see a complex and various world . |
| 6 | Harriet quite likes Nativity set but informs me it is not Baby Jesus but Princess Lucinda . |
| 7 | However , latest th er Microfit not only gives you the test statistic but gives you erm the significance level , probability value er which erm that test statistic is significantly different from zero right so if we are looking at that serial correlation test statistic of two point zero eight right we would accept the null hypothesis of er no serial correlation , right , or would n't be able to reject it strictly . |
| 8 | This magnet effect not only puts pressure on the south east but makes it difficult for other regions to attract the type of investment necessary for their own economic revival . |
| 9 | He admits the Xtra requirements gathering process sometimes lags behind vendors ' product introductions but said he thought XPG4 would contain some elements that were ahead of current offerings on interoperability . |
| 10 | The owner did not intend to leave the registration document but showed it to the dealer who arranged a trick whereby the owner was called away on an imaginary emergency thereby forgetting the registration document . |
| 11 | The Education Department would not comment directly on the court case but said it would be the responsibility of head teachers and school governors to see that tests went ahead as planned . |
| 12 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 13 | On Tuesday , the NUM was not only threatening strike action but taking it . |
| 14 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 15 | Later Fred sits down to play Gameboy tennis but tells me , ‘ Say I 'm playing Sega and … ’ — he halts a moment , thinking sponsorship — ‘ … wearing Levi 's and a John Richmond jacket . ’ |
| 16 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 17 | That night I did not open my window to the usually sweet night air but kept it tight shut against the threatening darkness . |
| 18 | KENNETH CLARKE also signed the public immunity certificate but denies it was an attempt to stop evidence about Government involvement reaching court . |
| 19 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 20 | Second , it can forge a ‘ pact ’ with one or more of the other parties , which entitles them to be consulted over policy decisions but excludes them from holding ministerial posts . |
| 21 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ said Hussey , bent reverently double , and eyeing his widowed kinswoman from the corner of one eye , ‘ if your Grace will but hear me … ’ |
| 22 | If the Chief those to also want to improve passenger comfort but let me say in spite of all this er th th th the customer still favour and that is why we will be supporting the Labour resolution because it is about the state of it is about yes to keep our eyes and sort of providing a whole range of integrated public transport that goes along in parallel with that same . |
| 23 | Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory . |
| 24 | Mr Stewart said there was little hope of government intervention but said he would be working strenuously to ease the plight of the Albion workers . |
| 25 | Most educationalists accept examination results as a performance indicator but believe they are too crude to be meaningful and should be seen alongside a number of other factors combined with visits to the school by parents . |
| 26 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 27 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 28 | ERA presented all this evidence to Glasgow District Council who finally admitted that there was a problem with the housing stock but said they had not got the money to put things right . |
| 29 | Later pick up track through caravan site but leave it at cattlegrid ( signposted Coast Path ) , descending to Branscombe Mouth . |
| 30 | Within a year he had given detailed and authoritative evidence to the House of Commons and been instrumental in the passage of two bills which abolished gaolers ' fees and enabled counties to pay for a proper service ; which allowed discharged defendants to be set at liberty in open court ; and which not only improved sanitation and health arrangements but made it obligatory for justices to have a concern for the health of prisoners . |