Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henceforth , as a result of the Prince 's action at Strasbourg , this cosy doctrine was threatened by a recrudescence of popular Bonapartism in which the key figure was not the dead Napoleon but the living Louis-Napoleon , who was offering a political alternative to the existing system . |
| 2 | A season ticket soon followed , paid for by Kathleen but a regular amount was deducted from my wages to pay her back . |
| 3 | Minor placer enrichments have been found in coastal dunes at Rattray Head , near Fraserburgh but the offshore potential is unknown . |
| 4 | A wet day at Anfield but a Royal success . |
| 5 | The giant fund-raising event took place on Saturday but the choppy waters caused some competitors to capsize . |
| 6 | Small but an expensive present please |
| 7 | Half the visitors were from societies all over the North but the other half were people who came out of interest and curiosity . ’ |
| 8 | The original intention had been for the expedition to sail on 10 February but the usual bad weather made this impossible and Ormonde became progressively more reluctant to leave , suspecting that all hope of surprise had now been lost . |
| 9 | Deforestation still remains a crucial issue in the Himalaya but the temporal and spatial pattern of its occurrence is , in the light of more recent research , very different from that hitherto envisaged . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree that to increase income from patients excluded from free treatment is not only an abuse of the founding principles of the NHS but a classic illustration of the two-tier health service that his Government are introducing ? |
| 11 | This inability of the court to intervene is founded on the fact that the applicable law is not the common law of England but a peculiar or domestic law of which the visitor is the sole judge . |
| 12 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 13 | This was common to much of England but the local feature was the use of flints as a building material rather than the freestone carved out of quarries elsewhere . |
| 14 | The economy moved back into the black in February after a Dm412m deficit during January but the latest Dm1.6 billion surplus is still well below the comparable Dm2.1 billion a year earlier . |
| 15 | Perhaps the ‘ I ’ of the poem is not William Wordsworth but a rustic narrator — compare the old sea-captain who tells the story of The Thorn . |
| 16 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 17 | The street is too narrow to take in the full glory of the design by Fischer von Erlach but the two doorways immediately make an impact , with their wonderful straining Hercules bent under the weight of the door entablature . |
| 18 | Barry Henderson , senior manager in charge of the new company , explains : ‘ These sites would normally have been sold to developers or owner/occupiers by JS but the new company will keep their profits in-house . |
| 19 | Fry claimed he was sacked by Flashman but the latter responded by saying Fry has a job at Underhill for as long as he wants it . |
| 20 | The difference between a Basque and a Catalan nationalist politician , it is said , is that the Catalan hopes to be prime minister of Spain but the Basque dreams of becoming the leader of an independent state . |
| 21 | He had been gunning for a place in Graham Taylor 's squad for next month 's friendly in Spain but the 24-year-old now faces a month on the sidelines . |
| 22 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 23 | The normal working was not booked to stop at Chester but the second part , inserted at very short notice , was scheduled to change locomotives there . |
| 24 | It 's not just 300 people at Cooper but the knock-on effect to suppliers , the post office and the pub down the road — they 're all effected |
| 25 | Absence of amenity is no longer of real significance in housing in North Shields but the ageing stock may have considerable problems regarding structural repair . |
| 26 | An earlier draft had been to George and Rowland Wilson but the latter 's name does not appear on the final copy . |
| 27 | The area in which this prospecting has been strongly resisted is not Ballymoney but the rural , lough-side communities of Moortown and Ardboe . |
| 28 | The first-floor museum for the Ancient History of Tel Aviv–Jaffa just round the corner was well cared for , although it recorded not the Arab history of Jaffa but the Biblical history of the land ; there was an exhibition to illustrate the Israelite Royal Period ( 930 BC ) with references to King David . |
| 29 | Third place went to Denis McCullough but the hard luck story of the race belonged to Phelim Owens who had to take a slip road at Cardy Corner when lying fourth then rejoined the race in 10th place before ending up back where he had started — in fourth place . |
| 30 | KW is derived from the same basic sunspot data set as FCL but the raw maximum-to-maximum and minimum-to-minimum length series were combined into a single series before applying a 7-term binomial filter . |