Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What follows in part two is not meant to be a gloomy cataloguing of specific doubts but a look at seven of the most common ‘ families ’ of doubt . |
| 2 | Microsoft Graph offers 84 graphing styles but a number of commonly required types are supplied among PowerPoint 's Time Savers . |
| 3 | But I think of course we can all debate er the various individual proposals and I think if we were in control of the council not only of course would we have different policies but the sort of detailed matters which would come up in debate would be discussed in committee , things would be in the normal way . |
| 4 | Mrs Khalid had a soft expression and lively eyes but a never-say-die-ishness that quite reminded Ellen of Rhoda . |
| 5 | This could imply that individuals with portal hypertension are protected against these degenerative vascular disorders but the possibility of a selection bias against referring patients with bleeding varices who have multiple non-hepatic pathologies can not be excluded . |
| 6 | Again , oligo ( dG ) sequences are the most prevalent sites but the presence of the tethered intercalator leads to secondary binding , mainly at AG sites . |
| 7 | In western movies they all seem to be chewing tobacco or smoking brown cheroots but a cigar sits well in Elliot 's lips . |
| 8 | Around two-thirds of works on show have been drawn from British public collections but a number of other exhibits have not previously been published . |
| 9 | A. vole molar from barn owl assemblage with no evidence of digestion ( ×14 ) ; B. enlargement of another specimen from the same barn owl assemblage with slight surface digestion of the salient angles ( ×38 ) ; C. vole molar from long-eared owl assemblage showing rounding of the occlusal edges of the salient angles but no penetration of the enamel ( ×38 ) ; D. enlargement of same ( ×150 ) ; E. murid molar from barn owl assemblage showing slight surface digestion of the enamel ( ×22 ) ; F. vole molar from short-eared owl assemblage showing extensive superficial digestion along all the salient angles , producing an uneven surface but no penetration of the enamel ( ×25 ) ; G. enlargement of same ( ×110 ) ; H. shrew molar from barn owl assemblage , undigested ( ×36 ) . |
| 10 | The Iraqi authorities ordered all foreign embassies in Kuwait to close by Aug. 24 , on which day the British and US embassies , together with others which defied the order , were surrounded by Iraqi troops but no attempt was made to remove the diplomats by force . |
| 11 | The more important part of a plan is not the detailed figures but the quality of the thinking from which the ligures are developed . |
| 12 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 13 | Different religions may have different symbols but no symbol should become a fetish in order to enable one religion to claim superiority over another . |
| 14 | There would need to be rebates for low-income families and for long-stay patients but the idea was that the working population would be required by law to obtain health insurance . |
| 15 | The different sorts of Goblins can do this in different ways but the objective is the same : either attack an enemy unit and bog it down in a protracted combat , or stand in the way of an enemy unit to prevent it attacking your core units . |
| 16 | There seems little doubt that all over the country inventive minds were working on the problem in different ways but the solution came in an unusual fashion . |
| 17 | For example " the members of the family " who gather at a funeral may be related to the deceased in all sorts of different ways but the group as a whole is unlikely to be associated with any particular household or married couple . |
| 18 | Winter and pre-breeding aggregations are a feature of all N. lapillus populations but the summer hunting packs are only notable on extensive shores , such as the Lias of Robin Hood 's Bay ( Lewis , 1964 ) . |
| 19 | Indeed , the hero of the tale , Jean , son of the count of Dammartin , not only inherits his father 's French lordships but the earldom of Oxford as well . |
| 20 | Many doctors are very scathing about anti-cellulite creams but the secret is not to expect too much of them . |
| 21 | A further eight patients with villous adenomas but no evidence of malignant change were deemed unsuitable for the study and were given laser treatment only . |
| 22 | The obvious example here must be that of the family , not one of sociology 's high points but the setting for much of the greatest work in the novel , film and drama . |
| 23 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 24 | Cooke is not explicitly trying to resolve structure-action tensions but the approach he adopts implies a resolution , albeit one which is essentially historicist . |
| 25 | A number of nationalities , indeed , had altogether disappeared ( or become fully assimilated ) over the period of Soviet rule : the census of 1926 recorded the existence of 194 ethnic groups but the census of 1959 only 109 and that of 1970 just 104 ( although there was subsequently a slight increase ) . |
| 26 | Our study shows an increased proportion of unnecessary operations among patients presenting in the early hours but no relation between the proportion of complicated appendicitis and time of presentation . |
| 27 | Such an interpretation could give rise to practical difficulties in appropriate cases but the wording of the legislation had to be simply applied . |
| 28 | Slaven put the ball in the net in the dying minutes but the goal was disallowed for offside . |
| 29 | In Cariniana , there are similar pollinators but the androecium is somewhat one-sided , while in Couroupita , it is very irregular in that , besides a ring of stamens with fertile pollen around the stigmatic surface , there is a one-sided ligule bearing stamens with sterile pollen curved back over the others . |
| 30 | If this structure is not generated the patient will be left with a collection of content words but no argument structure in which to insert them . |