Example sentences of "[noun] but [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 32-year-old Bein played in Germany 's 1990 World Cup campaign but won the last of his 14 caps in a friendly a year ago . |
| 2 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |
| 3 | At Oxford he lost his faith but gained a first at Balliol , in Law . |
| 4 | The t-PA of saliva from the vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) is homologous with human t-PA but lacks the second kringle domain and the plasmin cleavage site for conversion to a two-chain form . |
| 5 | Go to Roules for our usual meat but buy the third chop down at Blance 's . ’ |
| 6 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |
| 7 | Rab then , his watch gone , a new hard concentration ; short shrift , he won that game but lost the next and back to nothing . |
| 8 | It seems that the professional game , in contrast to our European and world rivals , has revered the second tenet but stifled the first . |
| 9 | Your text and your paragraphs are indented by one tab stop but accept the first line . |
| 10 | Instead , the selectors opted for Peter Richardson , who silenced the critics by qualifying for Barcelona but suffered a first round knockout by Stone 12 months ago . |
| 11 | Bruce , a second-hand dealer for 15 years , said he had taken away the items in a van but returned the next day because he wanted to buy a chest of drawers . |
| 12 | The obvious candidate for such an intragenic NF-L element would be the strong hypersensitive sites HS5A and B. We therefore analysed the expression pattern of a human NF-L gene construct containing 300bp upstream promoter sequence linked to the rest of the gene but lacking the first intron strong hypersensitive sites ( HS5A and HS5B ) ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 13 | The fact that family circumstances gave the school-leaver little option but to take the first available work , and the highest paid , was appreciated by exchange officials . |
| 14 | Really , they had no other option but to board the next train bound for Kefalov . |