Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Netherlands views itself not only as a trader and distributor of LPG but as a major user . |
| 2 | ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK : ‘ Sailing On The Seas ’ ( Virgin ) synthetic pop duo of yore back minus Paul Humpreys but with the same old brash , electronic burping — out on Monday |
| 3 | It may be questioned whether such elaborate surveillance ( engaged in not only by the KGB but to a greater or lesser extent by other security organizations ) is really necessary or produces results commensurate with the time , energy and expense involved in the operations . |
| 4 | In recent weeks , I have had the opportunity of discussing the matter not only in the United States but with a number of colleagues in the European Community . |
| 5 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 6 | As its name implies , the SMG is based not in Hounslow but in the huge Asian community of Southall , in the neighbouring borough of Ealing . |
| 7 | ‘ I succumbed ’ , Gandhi said later , ‘ not to Lord Irwin but to the honesty in him . ’ |
| 8 | To the west of this point oceanic lithosphere of the Indian Plate is currently being subducted below the Sunda Arc but to the east the Arc is in collision with the continental shelf of northern Australia ( this is marked on Figure 3.14 ) . |
| 9 | Roland 's stag night was planned the same Saturday but after a week the best man realized that he was going to be skiing then ! oops . |
| 10 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 11 | Next in Nerudova Street is the great high Baroque palace of the Thun-Hohensteins ( 20/214 ) , again by Santini but with the collaboration of the great sculptor , M. B. Braun . |
| 12 | The key sites were two henges ( like Stonehenge but without the stone ) , a stone circle and a structure for the exposure of dead bodies prior to burial . |
| 13 | There were about twenty of us , all told ; mostly McHoans but with a smattering of civilians . |
| 14 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 15 | It happened again on Thursday , when the people not only of England but of the United Kingdom as a whole blew a resounding raspberry at all the wise men , the opinion pollsters most of all . |
| 16 | For more than a week we had suffered high-pressure gloom in the south of England but on the day of my flight we enjoyed 8/8 blue with not a bump in the air — Wing Commander 's weather ! |
| 17 | And of course he was beset by orders and suggestions from other collectors : William Ogilby advised him to collect 6 or 8 specimens of every species , particularly the great red woolly kangaroo , which were in great demand not only in England but on the Continent as well ; Jardine asked for seeds as well as numerous other specified ‘ things in spirits ’ ; Thomas Campbell Eyton wanted as many petrels as Gould could capture for a monograph on the Procellaridae . |
| 18 | Not just in England but throughout the world about taking the technology we 're developing and the branded services and deploying them on their systems . |
| 19 | Normally this rests in a make shift shed out the back beside the running lines to Fareham but during the recent works holiday and over more recent weekends it is pushed into the erecting shop where it was originally built 65 years ago . |
| 20 | Patrick was born in January but with the hectic promotion battle under way at Prenton Park , Chris and Christina left his baptism until after the soccer season so they could stage a big family party . |
| 21 | Americans were bothered not only by the Baltic crackdown in January but by the Soviet reaction to American complaints about it . |
| 22 | As regards ‘ imperial greatness ’ or ‘ world power status ’ , the Tories made a brave job of trying to patch this up after Suez but in the early '60s Labour leaders were able to ridicule the so-called ‘ independent British deterrent ’ which had run into the now familiar conflict between resources available and military pretensions ; the attempted re-orientation of British trade towards Europe was ignominiously thwarted by the rejection of Macmillan 's application for EEC membership ; the process of ‘ decolonisation ’ was becoming increasingly uncontrollable and chaotic as many British-established federations of post-colonial states fell apart . |
| 23 | The Bill comes before the House by an accident of timing that , nevertheless , makes it of particular political relevance not only to the people of Scotland but to the people of the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 25 | But the danger of a centre party came not from McKenna but from the Unionist ex-Coalitionists , led by Austen Chamberlain , who had twice previously been Chancellor , and who , if he was to be brought back into the fold , would clearly require some substantial offer . |
| 26 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 27 | Spenser wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland not as a vindication of Elizabethan policy towards Ireland but as a document highly critical of it under a necessarily respectful guise . |
| 28 | This is necessary in order to assist in achieving the equivalence of information available in respect of companies not only in the UK and Ireland but throughout the European Community . |
| 29 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 30 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |