Example sentences of "but [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd always wanted a little girl , but one of the students at the door told me I had a beautiful little boy and he was fine . |
| 2 | Consulting sex manuals might help , but one of the benefits of having been married a number of years should be a deeper understanding of your partner and of what will give pleasure . |
| 3 | But one of the problems with attacking Trust , I mean it may be possible to envisage some sort of modified Trust with some local input at some stage without the contracting apparatus . |
| 4 | But one of the problems in the Maidstone area was parking on the footpath . |
| 5 | More detailed research and length of text could deter the casual reader but one of the improvements in this volume is the increased use of historical and topographical introductions to towns and villages . |
| 6 | There is a little evidence that the final choice lay between George Chase , the Bishop of Ripon , mature in years and experience , a scholar , solid , stable , absolutely reliable , shy , and at times remote , and Michael Ramsey , without experience , untried , but one of the leaders of a party in the Church and someone who would do more to represent learning among the bench of bishops . |
| 7 | We have provided comics , magazines , records and cassettes ; we have installed comfortable seating and modern furniture , and have laid on numerous events and activities : we have been successful in updating our image , but one of the consequences of our success has been the degree to which we have attracted the rowdier elements of the local youth . |
| 8 | All the garages on the bottom shelf are full , but one of the garages on the top shelf is empty . |
| 9 | WORKING OUT : But one of the exercises on Lizzie Webb 's video could tear your ligaments , says TV 's Watchdog expert |
| 10 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 11 | Schools should certainly be accountable , especially to parents and pupils , but one of the dangers of such a competitive approach to education is that the benefits of cooperation between schools and across LEAs will be lost . |
| 12 | The Telegraph , too , implies that British can be neatly distinguished from Irish , but one of the complexities of Britain and Ireland is that it is not that easy to do so . |
| 13 | Yosemite followed in 1890 , but one of the wonders of the natural world remained fairly remote from the public until the turn of the century — the Grand Canyon was not made a National Park until 1906 . |
| 14 | In that case , this would n't be Trastevere but one of the districts to the south where those two lines go , Portuense or EUR . |
| 15 | I mean tha , is it all , you know , do we need all the time to have erm extra administrative help and in in , and in terms of which we 've been talking about before , I know they might sound like two conflicting issues but one of the ways of ensuring we get the work done is do we trying too much at the Synod ? |
| 16 | The little V10 car was hardly competitive at the 6000ft altitude , but one of the highlights of the weekend was Rosberg 's all-out qualifying lap , only three seconds away from pole . |
| 17 | Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments . |
| 18 | In the case of the Hexagon , you 'll have three legs provided , but one of the delights of this shape is that only rarely does it need bridle adjustment . |
| 19 | But one of the offices in the area must have been undergoing a thorough make-over , because along with the garbage and a tangled mess of strip aluminium and ceiling tiles he found a number of office throwouts that included a desk lamp with about five yards of trailing flex . |
| 20 | accepted that if the subsequent appeal to the House of Lords were set to one side , there might be grounds for a relisting on the basis that the Court of Appeal had departed from well-established practice in resolving but one of the grounds of appeal , leaving outstanding points of appeal on which submissions had been made . |
| 21 | It was but one of the kindnesses to younger men to which both Donaldson and Barry referred . |
| 22 | POLITICS makes strange bedfellows , but one of the partnerships in Bolivia 's election on June 6th is uncommonly curious . |
| 23 | True , the extent of public disclosure is but one of the considerations in play — and , as we shall shortly indicate , not in our judgment the most material one in the circumstances of this case . |
| 24 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 25 | I do not wish to nail my colours to this mast , but one of the characteristics of the last decade has been the shift of interest of innovative aspects of capital as displayed in my locales , from a concern with the restructuring of production ( although of course this is still going on ) to a concern with land and its potential . |
| 26 | THE CRITICS Musicon Concert : Durham Cathedral IT is not often that the reverberant acoustic of Durham Cathedral enhances the sounds produced by a orchestra ; but two of the items in this concert certainly benefitted from the extra resonance . |