Example sentences of "but [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , many of my colleagues were a little concerned that they were being told of the final outcome , but nothing on the short term effects . ’ |
| 2 | Romantic behind its walls , yes , but nothing to the great city I had known . |
| 3 | Nothing daunted , we fished round the loch and caught our fair share , but nothing from the fabled Pennel Point . |
| 4 | But no-one at the Australian Cricket Board was about to apply the letter of the law and find Border . |
| 5 | Mike Sheron did not cost £1.2 million and he does n't speak French but no-one in the Premier League has made swifter progress this season . |
| 6 | But no-one in the Grand Army admitted the possibility of defeat . |
| 7 | A man may pursue power simply as a means to employ others for his own purposes , but someone with the true passion for power will betray , by exceeding any rational design to control those useful or dangerous to his ends , that he does penetrate deep enough inside his subjects for the exhilaration of sensing their wills tense against his own and yield . |
| 8 | On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF . |
| 9 | Feminists need a more dynamic view of reading , one which maintains a political perspective , but which at the same time concedes that there is room for manoeuvre between text and audience . |
| 10 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 11 | In consultation with colleges in 1989 , we planned the changeover to the new system over three years and three batches , providing , we hoped , a timetable which was not too rushed but which at the same time allowed centres to progress at a pace which met their candidates ' needs . |
| 12 | Even though banks hold only very small amounts of cash , they nevertheless hold a large amount of other relatively liquid assets which act as reserves , but which at the same time earn interest . |
| 13 | One alternative to such phrases lies in expressions of your own which are intended to convey more genuine , original response , but which within the overall register of academic essay-writing can sound uncritical or even gushing : " brilliant " , " fantastic " , " really wonderful " , " quite magical " , " unbelievably beautiful " . |
| 14 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 15 | The language feminists used to make this appeal was steeped in the evangelical tradition , which in the early and mid-nineteenth century had proved as successful as science in containing women , but which in the later part of the century was used by feminists to argue for an extension of maternal influence beyond the home . |
| 16 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 17 | When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) . |
| 18 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
| 19 | ‘ Passion 's prisoners , ’ she offered with acid amusement but none of the simple pleasure she usually took in alliteration . |
| 20 | She said she 's seen the film but none of the other family have seen it . |
| 21 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 22 | The gene for subunit I of the cytochrome oxidase ( coxI ) , for example , contains 16 introns in the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina and up to seven introns in various strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , but none in the common laboratory strain of Neurospora crassa ( 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ) . |
| 23 | Fit was pretty good , leaving a trace of cheap-feeling rock in the ‘ T ’ handle , but none in the conventional unit . |
| 24 | Those international lawyers , such as Brownlie , who are sceptical about the legality of nuclear weapons use , but who at the same time take a practical view of the law and see it as closely related to what states actually do , are in something of a bind , as they do not hesitate to acknowledge . |
| 25 | The joining together of Jebel All Port and Port Rashid Authority into Dubai Ports Authority creates not only by far the largest single authority in the region , but one with the largest number of berths and ship handling capacity in the world , according to Sultan bin Sulayem , Chairman and Managing Director of Dubai Ports Authority . |
| 26 | And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile . |
| 27 | But what of the long lay-off ? |
| 28 | 3.5 But what of the general level of awards itself , ignoring inflation ? |
| 29 | But what of the ordinary villager ? |
| 30 | My daughter finds everyday learning fun because it involves doing things together , but what of the working mother , or the one who has other children demanding all her attention , or the low-income family — do n't they have a right to pre-school education too ? |