Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 2 | At Pilkingtons and Ford , benchmarking exercises were confined to manufacturing costs and work organization , whereas RX instigated a more profound organizational benchmarking , isolating competitive gaps in all aspects of organization not simply as a sporadic trigger exercise to prioritize change areas but as an on-going process . |
| 3 | He is suspicious about their motives but with an over-time ban on at Sun Hill nick , are there enough officers on duty to prevent more violence ? |
| 4 | Similarly , one could argue that the saturation of nineteenth-century bourgeois homes with printed music resulted , in some respects , not in a mass of passive reproducers but in an intensely active music culture , with a high regard for the immediacy of performance and the ‘ spiritual ’ value of musical communication . |
| 5 | On Wednesday 15 September 1779 the cutter , Black Prince , sailing under French colours but with an American commander , and crewed by a mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen , suddenly appeared off Fishguard on the west coast of Wales . |
| 6 | He viewed society not as an aggregate of isolated atoms but as an organism for the realization of common purposes . |
| 7 | What this debate about conviction highlights is the continuing absence in the new Labour Party not of sensible policies but of an enveloping conviction that can be easily summarised , passionately preached , readily understood . |
| 8 | Normally the forces from one molecule are counterbalanced by equal attraction by other molecules but at an interface the forces become unbalanced . |
| 9 | Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ . |
| 10 | Capital for major expenditure or investment can be raised in a number of ways but as an PLC we would have easier access to the most appropriate funding alternatives . |
| 11 | Willis presents evidence to show that his competence is cumulative and so ‘ makes it sensible to speak of the working class not as an abstract group of those who share similar interests but as an organic whole with real and used inner connections ’ ( Willis , 1976 ) . |
| 12 | The next two Tours were won by Swiss riders , Ferdi Kubler and Hugo Koblet , popular men but without an impassioned following . |
| 13 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |
| 14 | Erhard and Adenauer now clashed on other issues but in an argument in May 1962 over custom duties it was Erhard who won the Bundestags support . |
| 15 | FROM the top of the dome of St Paul 's Cathedral the view is no longer dominated by City church steeples but by an intrusive cacophony of drab , characterless Sixties boxes . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a need to disaggregate the concept into more manageable parts but within an overall strategy which is concerned with the impact of human activity within the eco-system . |