Example sentences of "[pron] but [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And who but two women like that would be pigheaded enough to try and run a restaurant there ? ’ |
| 2 | If it was me I would do the same to them but two wrongs do n't make a right . ’ |
| 3 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 4 | When they reach their next stopping place , they find not one but twelve springs of fresh water , one for each of their tribes . |
| 5 | On other occasions they occupy respective quarters of a pavement ( in which case there will be not one but four pairs ) each surrounding the central medallion which is then subsidiary . |
| 6 | ‘ This they have done by drawing up a ‘ list ’ of recommended books for children of different ages which are , almost without exception , not one but two generations old . |
| 7 | The new circus company Ra Ra Zoo bring not one but two shows to the region this month . |
| 8 | Using scrap metal and steel porter 's barrow , they designed and built a trolley specifically for the job which carries not one but two sets in perfect safety and with greater manoeuvrability . |
| 9 | Okay , you may be wondering why I 'm wired up with not one but two microphones today . |
| 10 | They differed in the seemingly trivial but nonetheless diagnostic character of having not one but two pairs of antennae on their heads . |
| 11 | It is surely unique in Britain for a failed Conservative candidate to be chairman of not one but two quangos . |
| 12 | A strategy for improving teaching has not one but two components : not only must there be an effective means for helping teachers to change their practice along the lines required , but the preferred approaches to teaching must be coherent , defensible and demonstrably capable of securing a quality of learning superior to that available previously . |
| 13 | ‘ Why not ? ’ said Mr. Jenkins , wide awake with the cheek of it and now taking not one but two pieces of her best fruitcake . |
| 14 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |
| 15 | The first part of this article ( ‘ MI ’ No.33 ) recounted the popular version of Napoleon 's escape from his carriage under the very lances of the pursuing Prussians on the evening of Waterloo ; examined the highly suspect claims of the opportunist Maj von Keller , who gained riches and fame by the disposal of not one but two carriages , each with the same highly coloured provenance ; and described and illustrated the landau in detail . |
| 16 | It is , I can assure you , a rare event in this establishment to have not one but two newcomers with such a qualification . |
| 17 | Society met needs and served interests through not one but three categories of welfare : |
| 18 | Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life . |
| 19 | Such a deceptively simple greeting acts as the perfect foil for the vast , sumptuous feast laid out between the covers : an array of images that encompasses all aspects of the extraordinary and multifaceted career of a man who achieved mastery of not one but three genres — portraiture , fashion and still life . |