Example sentences of "[noun] but no [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baldwin then counterattacked by calling a party meeting — MPs and candidates but no peers — at the Caxton Hall for 24 June . |
| 2 | He can hear vowels but no consonants . |
| 3 | ‘ The council is still considering all the available research but no conclusions have yet been reached , ’ an ITV spokeswoman said tonight . |
| 4 | ‘ The council is still considering all the available research but no conclusions have yet been reached , ’ an ITV spokeswoman said tonight . |
| 5 | Continue to repeat the unchanging part of the sentence , but the different endings could be : teeth but no mouth ? … an eye but no sight ? … hands but no arms ? … legs but no feet ? … a neck but no head ? … skin but no bones ? … a core but no heart ? … arms but no hands ? |
| 6 | Covered pedestrian access , with lifts and inclines but no stairs ( which for the disabled and those with luggage and or small children , can cause major problems ) would enable passengers to transfer from road to rail etc in comparative comfort . |
| 7 | It will then replace economic considerations but no others . |
| 8 | He 's not going to warn Shatov or tell the police , he 's going to make a statement ‘ for general edification ’ — words but no deeds , a turn towards sanity and life that might have been , and a horrific-comic Possessed moment of subtlest art . |
| 9 | Similarly in Britain , a party can win several thousand votes in each constituency yet not come out top of the poll in any ; in consequence , it amasses a large popular vote but no seats in Parliament . |
| 10 | But this was complete and whole and I was very struck by the sheer scale and splendour of it : walls and roof but no windows . |
| 11 | Sources close to the meeting of G7 senior government ministers , who had invited the deputy prime minister , Boris Fyodorov , as a last-minute guest , said they had laid the groundwork for fresh aid but no promises had been made over cash . |
| 12 | A general strike on Oct. 15 closed shops , offices and schools but no confrontations with the army were reported . |
| 13 | No winners but no losers either . |
| 14 | He was armed with a shotgun but no shots were fired . |
| 15 | There were reports of casualties but no deaths , and people living nearby were evacuated ; it was reported on April 9 that no chemical or nuclear weapons were stored in the depot . |
| 16 | Two other schools were involved as controls where attitude testing but no interventions took place . [ … ] |
| 17 | There was even a recipe for lemon curd using vegetable marrow but no eggs or lemons . |
| 18 | ‘ The warrior was carrying a bow but no arrows . |
| 19 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 20 | I had a flat and a job but no friends . |
| 21 | He says it could be an engine failure but no eyewitnesses noticed a change in engine note . |
| 22 | Samos has yielded stelai with floral finials but no figures ; Laconia an uncouth series of limestone reliefs , gravestones or dedications to the heroised dead . |
| 23 | He 's been suspected of committing armed robbery but no convictions . |
| 24 | They have all had one Number One hit record but no others records in the British charts — ( a ) Lee Marvin , ‘ Wand'rin ’ Star ’ ( 1970 ) , ( b ) Clive Dunn , ‘ Grandad ’ ( 1971 ) , ( c ) Nick Berry , ‘ Every Loser Wins ’ ( 1986 ) . |
| 25 | Cotton also presented in 1987 17 patients , two ( 12% ) developed biliary related problems requring surgery , one having a stormy postoperative period but no deaths ; two had a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with duct clearance and five died of unrelated causes ; the remaining eight patients were followed for a mean of 39 months . |
| 26 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 27 | Much later on , if we had a need but no proposals , we might occasionally put that area out to tender . |
| 28 | Large fragments of the spacecraft fell in northern Argentina but no injuries were reported . |
| 29 | The government has launched an official inquiry into his alleged ill-treatment but no findings have been made public . |
| 30 | An assortment of offensive weapons but no firearms were recovered . |