Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramlal sat down on the steps but the chaprassi kicked him aside . |
| 2 | Baldwin then counterattacked by calling a party meeting — MPs and candidates but no peers — at the Caxton Hall for 24 June . |
| 3 | They still lack goals but the signs were they will come . |
| 4 | He can hear vowels but no consonants . |
| 5 | This seems a paradox but it is not : the system is geared to the needs of the operating units but the units are expendable so long as the system remains intact . |
| 6 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | ‘ We started with lead labels but the squirrels ate them up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ambitious politicians with their sights set on Downing Street probably make lousy husbands but the likes of Norma Major , Rosemary Lamont somehow cope . |
| 11 | It will then replace economic considerations but no others . |
| 12 | In practice , however , the decision as to what emission standard is to be adopted inevitably considers not only economic and technological aspects but the effects of air pollution on human health and the environment , as well as the political climate and public opinion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In both cases Bourdieu 's assumptions of the linkages of knowledge to power place him , I shall contend , rather firmly in the camp of , not the structuralists but the poststructuralists , of not the modernists but the postmodernists . |
| 15 | Obviously all cases are not single remedy prescriptions but the principles of changing medicines and the interspersing of nosodes is no different from centesimals . |
| 16 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
| 17 | She continued to weep and suffer for many months but the tears were no longer helpless but purposeful . |
| 18 | It is also recognised that IGFBP-1 is just one of at least six distinct binding proteins but the functions and inter-relationships of these are also uncertain . |
| 19 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 20 | A general strike on Oct. 15 closed shops , offices and schools but no confrontations with the army were reported . |
| 21 | The majority were from primary schools but the rangers can arrange educational activities for everyone from nursery school children through to college students . |
| 22 | No winners but no losers either . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Japan is known to have a high subcontract content in many companies but the figures were not available ; the difference between Japanese and other productivity figures was , however , so great that conclusions drawn were not invalidated . |
| 25 | Altered schedules may cause confusion for EastEnders enthusiasts but the fans ( see mostly men ) will usually get their own way ( see boredom , remote control , zapping , injuries ) . |
| 26 | The Cathedral arms were placed on the largest candles — not the tapers which the pious burnt in the side chapels but the candles which were placed on the high altar . |
| 27 | ( d ) hearings before the Panel are susceptible to judicial view by the English courts in certain circumstances but the courts have indicated that it would be rare for a Panel decision to be overturned ( see below ) . |
| 28 | 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 : |
| 29 | The train was still moving between stations but the twins seemed to have lost all interest in knowing how long it took and relaying this information to the rest of the carriage . |
| 30 | Then when we came out we s went around London to see the sights but the decorations but why we went I did n't think anything to them at all this year . |