Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 2 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 3 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 4 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 5 | The shift of leadership to John Smith may seem temporarily convincing , but it is in the last analysis cosmetic . |
| 6 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 7 | but it 's in the last brochure had the extra warmth ones , which I like |
| 8 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 9 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 10 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 11 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 12 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |