Example sentences of "[num] but [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stress σ is applied to spring E 1 and dashpot η 3 ; it is also shared by E 2 and η 2 but in a manner which varies with time . |
| 2 | First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating . |
| 3 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 4 | For example , Peat , Marwick and Mitchell ( 1980 ) from a study of ‘ need ’ in Dyfed in Wales , not only produced the stratified definition of ‘ need ’ shown in Table 6.3 but from a ‘ behavioural ’ study also produced the fourfold stratification of need shown below : |
| 5 | His team just escaped relegation from Division One but after a disastrous run at the start of the following season , he left Maine Road for the last time . |
| 6 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 7 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 8 | Next came the Class 58 , functionally similar to the Class 56 but with a number of radical design features such as external walkways along the sides of each locomotive ; a fleet of fifty entered service between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 9 | Whereas most of the models today that we think of we regard them as a mixture of the two but with a he and , depending on the type of or the piece of perception that we 're working on , we have either one the other . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 11 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 12 | Jim Baxter was transferred to Rangers for £27 , 000 but in a strange inter-club arrangement he was retained at Starks Park for a further three months . |
| 13 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |