Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was as well , similar but a whole step in advance , the why-dun-it , the book which depends for its interest on showing that someone who could easily enough have committed a certain murder but who on the face of it was incapable of that particular crime ( i.e. one who had J. C. Masterman 's aces of spades , hearts and diamonds but apparently not clubs ) is nevertheless seen eventually to be psychologically capable of that crime after all , once probed deeply enough . |
| 2 | As well as a balanced intake of vitamins A , B , C and D. But what of the child on the right ? |
| 3 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
| 4 | They said he understood the risks of the job but everyone on the case agrees it was a pointless killing . |
| 5 | On first acquaintance I found the keyhole cockpit did not give such a positive feel to the boat as the smaller cockpit rims of glass boats but none of the students noticed this . |
| 6 | In Chicago everyone knew Fingers but none of the promoters thought they were worth taking a risk on . |
| 7 | When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) . |
| 8 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 9 | On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF . |
| 10 | Her whole point in life is that people criticize her because she does erm she can only actually look after a very small percentage of the people in Calcutta who need help and they all sort of say , Well she does that bit but what about the rest of them ? |
| 11 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 12 | It was hot and muscular , not a smell but something in the air . |
| 13 | An austere Maronite Christian who commanded the loyalty of both Christian and Muslim brigades in the US-trained and equipped Lebanese Army , Aoun had many friends in the Pentagon but none in the State Department , which saw his ambition to let the Lebanese choose their own government without foreign interference as a threat to America 's interests . |
| 14 | This is sound judgement but nothing beyond the reach of average mortals . |
| 15 | HSE will doubtless take speedy action to secure in-built improvements to new tackle but what of the aging and battered equipment which has been given an extended life because of the current recession ? |
| 16 | He knows all about the figures but nothing about the reality behind them . |
| 17 | ‘ Passion 's prisoners , ’ she offered with acid amusement but none of the simple pleasure she usually took in alliteration . |
| 18 | He had some of the techniques but none of the instincts of a painter . |
| 19 | So much for the ‘ how ’ of hooliganism but what of the ‘ why ’ ? |
| 20 | I 've run a library comparison but none of the eigenvalues match with anything we 've seen before . |
| 21 | in some women , it sounds very nice they would do anything to have a baby but what about the baby , and what about the baby 's rights ? |
| 22 | Three of the four patients with a known neuropathy but none of the control group and none of the patients with a known myopathy had a persistent tachygastria in the fasting state . |
| 23 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 24 | The Irish News reported that the police had struck at the testicles of male demonstrators but none of the other papers reported this . |
| 25 | There are few studies on the prevalence of smoking in diabetics but one from the West of Scotland suggests there is little difference compared to their non-diabetic fellows ( Kesson & Slater , 1979 ) . |
| 26 | We would have all the risk but none of the advantages . |
| 27 | It 's been a reggae smash for weeks on end but no-one in the pop world has noticed yet . |
| 28 | As a result , the USA suffered a net outflow of gold in every year but one during the 1960s as pressure of the kind described by Triffin built up . |
| 29 | The school is a snapshot of the American West , the great swath of the Plains between the Missouri River and the Rockies that makes up one fifth of continental America but which in the last generation has become known as the Empty Quarter , or the Dying Heart of the US . |
| 30 | A common solution is for the instruction to imply a jump address , the next location but one after the instruction . |