Example sentences of "[noun] but [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 2 | Not only De La Rue but also maker of specialist papers Portals should benefit as it has more than half the world market for the secure cotton-based papers used for money and money orders which it is already selling to about 120 countries . |
| 3 | They 've already written to the Secretary of State and said dear Secretary of State we 're going to send this to you because it is a departure but please Secretary of State do not call it in do not exercise your powers . |
| 4 | In the case of Alan Charlton , he has these six very fine grey panels , by very fine I just mean they are handsomely proportioned , they are very carefully coloured to a very precise , not just colour but also weight of colour and brightness and so on , but the way they 're shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition , and this is part of it 's stupidity , is , well I got the feeling it was intended to kill them to stone dead by putting them next to something very loud , very elaborate , very expressionist , a vast canvass by a very good painter by Mutter . |
| 5 | In the ground attack side we 're comparing it to the jaguar that it 'll replace , the harrier G R seven and also the tornado G R four and then in the multi-role arena for air defence , air superiority and attack we 're comparing our aircraft against the French Raphall the American F eighteen E which is the the future variant of the F eighteen , the F fifteen E , the multi-role but primarily air to surface machine and also the F sixteen C. Those are the ones we 're currently looking at . |
| 6 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 7 | There is therefore a tension between the continued existence of economic and social inequalities which confer political advantages on some groups and corresponding disadvantages on others , and the democratic principle of political equality , which ought , as a principle , to mean not merely equality in the voting booth but also equality of access to the political decision-makers , and equal opportunities to influence the policies and direction taken by society as a whole . |
| 8 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 9 | Employment opportunities include not only work with the traditional large-scale centralized business system but also involvement in database systems , distributed systems and small business systems . |
| 10 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 11 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |