Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public is entitled to use the highway for passage and repassage from one place to another but the extent to which this gives an unrestricted right to hold a moving demonstration on the highway is doubtful . |
| 2 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Much of the taxpayers ' investment has merely stoked up inflation in land prices , effectively closing agriculture to all but the millionaire . |
| 4 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 5 | President said , ‘ Progress is generally a slow transition from one stage to another but the process can be hastened or retarded by the action of individuals . |
| 6 | There is no objection to this but the tenant should ensure that the person so appointed is suitably qualified to enable him to carry out his functions in a proper and responsible manner . |