Example sentences of "[art] [adj] but [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1989 review of the NHS allowed tax relief for private health insurance for the over-60s but the rejection of other means of finance rules out any fundamental change in the near future . |
| 2 | At its simplest , sociobiology is arguing , then , that the central drive affecting individual and social behaviour is not the preservation of the individual but the maximisation of the individual 's genes into future generations . |
| 3 | I do n't want to dwell too much on the obvious but a number of things should be pointed out here . |
| 4 | W.N. and L.A. Kellogg adopted the then revolutionary idea of rearing an infant chimpanzee in their own home in the 1920s but the experiment with Gua was abandoned after a year because no signs of vocalisation resembling human speech were observed . |
| 5 | It was a problem ( to be discussed below in chapter 5 ) which was to perplex not only the wealthy but every level of the middle classes for the remainder of the century . |
| 6 | The depressed post-war state of the countries ' economies meant that little progress was made until the 1950s but the experience of modern warfare had at least convinced government circles that the old security arguments against a tunnel were redundant . |
| 7 | It was seen as a one-off but the rest of the band recognised Solowka 's zeal . |
| 8 | 1357 , was not a Franciscan but a Carmelite of the Whitefriary , and his connection with Stamford is purely related to the university legend . |
| 9 | There are one or two clerks , er that have male , purely because it 's , it 's their job anyway , and er the chief clerk headquarters is a male but the majority of them now are women yep , and they do well er , headquarters staff do it very well I think , that side of it . |
| 10 | The publishing history of Mills and Boon emulates precisely that of the developments in mass market publishing in Europe and America ; it may be an extreme but the dating of shifts in their ownership and distribution structure conforms to the major historical changes in the publishing industry . |
| 11 | Octogesima Adveniens ( 1971 ) on the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum was not an encyclical but a letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy , then president of International Justice and Peace . |