Example sentences of "[num] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Banks indicated to the Labour Court , at that stage , that the numbers required for this task would be approximately 700 but despite the fact that full Extended Opening Hours are now in place , the figure actually employed by the Banks falls very far short of that number . |
| 2 | 3.5 With effect from the Possession Date or ( if later ) the date on which the Tenant has obtained all Tenant 's Approvals the Tenant shall have licence and authority to enter upon the Premises for the purpose of carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 but for no other purpose The problem is that the words " but for no other purpose " could result in a period of non-user from the date of completion of the tenant 's works and the date of the completion of the lease ( see clause 1.15.2 ) and the clause should be amended as follows : |
| 3 | In 1962 the increase in population had been 1,172 but in the same year only nineteen new houses had been built ; land had to be found for new housing . |
| 4 | The station hotels at Euston and Curzon Street were exceptions in the 1830s but by the 1840s hotel accommodation had become an essential part of the planning of new railway stations . |
| 5 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 8 | As late as the 1760s the ideal government , in the eyes not merely of George III but of the great majority of his subjects , was one consisting of a number of heads of departments , each performing his task efficiently and responsible only to the king and Parliament . |
| 9 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 10 | First came the Class 56 , superficially similar to the Class 47 but with a maximum speed of 80mph and no facility for train heating . |
| 11 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 12 | Hindenburg was elected President of the Republic in 1925 ; he was re-elected in 1932 but in the following year , by then virtually senile , he was persuaded to appoint Adolf Hitler chancellor . |
| 13 | Not only since she came home in nineteen ninety but in the three long years when she was hospitalised . |
| 14 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 15 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 16 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 17 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 18 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 19 | Harris Corp 's current mix of home-grown to purchased products is around 80:20 but over the next three to five years , O'Donnell expects this ratio to be reversed . |
| 20 | The paradox of Pius XII 's reign was the acceptance of chunks of a new model — the encouragement of modern biblical scholarship in the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu , of participant liturgical reform in Mediator Dei , of an increasingly multi-faceted lay apostolate — together with slightly ineffectual but still painful attempts to silence Congar and many others ( the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin most of all ) , the signing of highly reactionary concordats with Spain and Portugal , and an even greater stress on Marian devotion ( culminating not only in the definition of the Assumption in 1950 but in the ‘ Marian Year ’ of 1954 ) . |
| 21 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | The component 0 in region III has an identical form to 4 in region II but with the null coordinate v replacing . |
| 24 | This was mainly at Level II but with an increasing achievement at Level III and above . |
| 25 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 26 | Where the death happens after 12/11/74 but before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , the termination of his interest is not a chargeable transfer . |
| 27 | In 1989–90 it took in £5 billion and paid out £9 billion , the following year 's net outflow was £1 billion but for the year just ended there was a £1 billion inflow and now that the government really needs cash , it is probably looking for about £5 billion this year . |
| 28 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 29 | Other societies would probably have followed Abbey National with stock market flotations in the early 1990s but for the hostility of the Building Societies Commission and the housing market recession . |
| 30 | In South Wales voluntary liquidations dropped from 311 to 284 but in the Midlands they rose from 1,756 to 1,773 . |