Example sentences of "[noun prp] but the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Begin eventually agreed to a plan for evacuating the PLO but the bombs continued to fall . |
| 2 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 3 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 4 | Evidently no generalization decrement occurred with the stimuli and procedures used here because there was no loss of conditioned responding in group D. But the stimuli and procedures used in the aversive conditioning experiment of Fig. 4.5(b) were just the same as those used in the appetitive conditioning experiment of Fig. 4.5(a) . |
| 5 | Mrs Zamzam has accurately remembered the way she travelled away from Um Al-Farajh but the jews never destroyed her village . |
| 6 | Given the chance last Sunday , East Germans not only dished the communist would-be reformers who succeeded Erich Hon-ecker but the civil-rights campaigners who had brought his wretched regime down and the Social Democrats who hoped to replace them both . |
| 7 | There 's a more direct way along the valley of the Rhine but the riders of the Tour will climb through the Vosges mountains , granite and sandstone covered with beech and fir . |
| 8 | The wine and beer flows as guitarist Andy Cairns talks openly and without embarrassment about ‘ 77 punk bands like Eater and Sham 69 ( ‘ I wanted to do a Sham medley at Reading but the others would n't let me ’ ) . |
| 9 | He had been tempted to use the President 's Land-Rover but the tracks would have shown . |
| 10 | Our claim is for 7% salary increase for the 12 months from 1st March but the Banks pointed out that inflation was running at only 1.7% . |
| 11 | The Shah said that he loved Soraya but the demands of monarchy meant that he must have an heir and so he had to sacrifice his love . |
| 12 | She had urged her husband out into the large society in and about Liverpool but the forays had not been happy . |
| 13 | The USA and Japan both got their new products to market faster than the UK and FRG but the differences are not statistically significant . |
| 14 | Mr Major had cause to regret sending David Waddington to the House of Lords but the Tories hope Ribble Valley will return to ‘ normal ’ — in the manner of so many seats won by centre candidates in by-elections . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll have to see a specialist when I get back to Barnsley but the eyes feel much better today , ’ said Taggart . |
| 16 | ( The secret life of the apple NI 212 ) OK , so the pear did n't make it big in the Garden of Eden but the Romans worshipped it as an aphrodisiac , and consecrated it to Venus , Goddess of Love . |
| 17 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
| 18 | The defendants had previously encountered Mr. Perot in 1983 when they had sought to negotiate a letting of Caliban to Mr. Perot but the negotiations had broken down . |
| 19 | Last time we were at Lane Notts were leading by two goals to nil over Pisa but the Italians have got one back . |
| 20 | An emergency parachute operation will be set up at Hullavington but the consequences of the fire go deeper . |
| 21 | In The Guardian Robin Denselow touched on subjects closer to the heart of this book : ‘ The Smiths may be the most popular band in Britain but the contradictions within this tunefully doomy quartet seem ever more bizarre . |
| 22 | ‘ There were some strands of a drugs story in California but the reporters could n't link it to smuggling from South America , which was the obvious line of enquiry . |
| 23 | The natives know that it is not the actual paintings in the caves that activate the Kurunba but the rocks on which they are drawn ; the rocks being imbued with the ‘ spirit ’ of the entities depicted . |
| 24 | Patients taking diclofenac , ketoprofen or nabumetone were less likely to have active duodenitis and gastric metaplasia than other NSAIDs but the differences were not statistically significant . |
| 25 | It seemed that every round of the cup had become a pressure game for Tommy but the Glens made it through to the semi-final against Bangor . |
| 26 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 27 | The apple-picking season ended in April but the pickers remain because they have no money to leave and there is no work anyway . |
| 28 | The existing business is based in London but the owners may be willing to move . |
| 29 | Thus , they will make little contribution to the probability of the particle 's going from A to B. But the numbers from the straight paths will add up with the numbers from paths that are almost straight . |
| 30 | They 've got one in Argos but the colours are disgusting and it 's twenty pound , you see I went and brought one for Boo Boo , that one from Argos |