Example sentences of "[noun prp] but [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet we hear so much in chapters 1–3 of the faithlessness of men in high positions in Israel ( chapter 4 will tell us that Eli was not only high priest at Shiloh but for forty years ‘ judge ’ in Israel , the one in whom resided the greatest political and spiritual as well as judicial authority among all the tribes ) . |
| 2 | Roxburgh will be in Lisbon next week to watch Portugal play Italy ; the home team having one point less than Scotland but with two games fewer played , while Arrigo Saachi 's side are level on points with one game fewer played . |
| 3 | This section is mainly concerned with the initial stages of rising capital for Eurotunnel but in recent months there have been growing doubts about the financial viability of the project . |
| 4 | After all ceremonial and courtly pomp inspired many of the most important works not just of Purcell but of whole centuries of composers , and record companies , egged on by the period performance boom , are more and more investigating them . |
| 5 | Having become the political expression not just of the state appropriate to Ireland but of Irish catholics as well , the Irish nationalist tradition contained and still contains within its confines a culture of violence antithetical to the church 's traditional teaching . |
| 6 | Boro battled well for a hard-earned point in a poor game and they remain six points behind Cambridge but with four games in hand . |
| 7 | And then the Company brought craftsmen who laboured mightily and restored this historic building to its original splendour for the delight and wonderment of people not only from the district of Montgomeryshire but from diverse parts . |
| 8 | At the start North Down man Ian Lyle shadowed Rowan but after two miles he lost contact and Albertville 's Paddy Branagh took up the pursuit , moving to within 30 metres of Rowan . |
| 9 | Smith , born Down Under but with Irish grandparents , leads Oxford against a World XV in a match to raise funds for GOAL , an Irish-based international charity which provides financial assistance to the Third World . |
| 10 | ‘ So would I. But about these letters . |
| 11 | Another squally young French counter-tenor , Gérard Lesne , often appears in works by Purcell and Handel but with unfortunate overtones of Ethel Merman belting out a razzmatazz show tune . |
| 12 | The series was eventually re-run in August but with several revisions . |
| 13 | ‘ The tunnel will create an opportunity not for BR but for foreign railways , because they have an infrastructure . ’ |
| 14 | He weighs more than Joe Frazier but in these days of the super tanker heavyweights like Bowe and Lennox Lewis , he 's lacking in competitive firepower , even if his heart is totally disproportionate to his size . |
| 15 | It has also become well established not only in mainland Britain but in other countries . |
| 16 | And it is the fact of being the written form which means that it is used not only in Britain but by all writers of English throughout the world , with remarkably little variation . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the move to Easingwold , a small market town that was similar in many ways to Pocklington but with fewer saddlers , was a beneficial one , for the family certainly did better once they were there . |
| 18 | ‘ You can be perfectly well with HIV but at other times it 's hard to do even basic things . |
| 19 | The £92 million difference between the was plain enough , but how much was the unspoiled beauty of Twyford Down worth , not just to present-day citizens of Winchester but to future generations ? |
| 20 | I 'm interested in the role of women all over the world , particularly in terms of what effect development strategies have had on women 's position , not merely in India but in other parts of the world as well , because I feel that there are a lot of common experiences which impinge on the problem as it relates to India . |
| 21 | The New Towns programme quickly unfolded , not only for London but for other parts of the country . |
| 22 | In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain . |
| 23 | As I heard more stories about the measuring rod , not just from Alec but from other boys as well , I began to realise that it would be as big a problem for me as it always was for Alec . |
| 24 | According to a report in NIN ( 9 November 1986 ) , the memorandum claimed that the prewar Comintern was hostile to Serbia , that the Serbian delegates to the second session of the Anti-fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia in 1943 ( at which major decisions were taken about the postwar composition of Yugoslavia ) were elected not by organizations within Serbia but by Serbian personnel who were in the partisan armies in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time , and that postwar Yugoslavia was largely under the control of Tito , a Croat , and Kardelj , a Slovene . |
| 25 | Since then , rock has been brought from Trefor Quarry in North Wales but in recent times the use of Ailsa Craig rock has been resumed . |