Example sentences of "[num] [noun] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An offer had been made previously , whereby the waiting period would have been reduced from 18 to 12 months but the initial payment held at 54 per cent for a year . |
| 2 | The umpires tried to restart the game after about 35 minutes but the Indian team again left the ground when Ravi Shastri complained the crowd was hurling stones . |
| 3 | The building of the present Thomas Street Church in 1860 was not the result of the 1859 Revival but a providential event parallel to it . |
| 4 | High-bay warehouses vary in height between 10 and 35 metres but a typical height for the 1980's may well be in the 20–25 metre range . |
| 5 | Tax fraud work brings in 1.6 billion p.a but the criminal justice system is seldom used ( 472 in 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Pond , who ‘ cleared ’ $35,795.91 was , not surprisingly , enthusiastic and offered Watson an additional $24,000 if he would extend his tour by twelve weeks but the exhausted man refused . |
| 7 | There was a tendency says Freud to eliminate all the wrong gods and say there is only one god but the whole point . |
| 8 | Er I suppose as I 've indicated , according to one study in 1978 , twenty five percent of abuse ind involved one incident erm however some abuse was very much more long term , if you can imagine twenty five percent involved one incident but the average duration of abuse was three years . |
| 9 | The whole experience of the pains and startling joys of the hazardous journey becomes for him paradigmatic of the realities of life lived fully from moment to moment , and the teaching of the lama " not the enlightened wisdom of one man but the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " . |
| 10 | I help him ; we lift the rusting grating up at one end but the far side is still secured by an iron pin and we ca n't shift it any further . |
| 11 | The buyer subsequently discovered that the rear half of the car was a 1961 Herald but the front half was part of an earlier model , the two halves having been welded together . |
| 12 | I usually have er the the German one before about five year but the fucking pump keep on fuck up every other two year . |
| 13 | But at times it 's been hard to ignore that sinking feeling that what we 've been witnessing is another case of gradual rock'n'roll suicide , that what we 're about to experience is the possible self-destruction of not just one individual but a whole band . |