Example sentences of "[num] [noun] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match looked set to be a close affair when the two neighbours were level pegging after three heats but then a run of four successive 5–1s for the home side virtually settled the issue . |
| 2 | Day-trippers and weekend visitors have filled the streets and riverside paths every summer for more than sixty years but only a tiny percentage are aware of the village 's remarkable gastronomic distinction , about which most communities would continually drum up a publicity fanfare . |
| 3 | After that she was installed ante post favourite for next season 's One Thousand Guineas but then a pulled muscle forced her to miss her next outing , the Lowther Stakes at York . |
| 4 | Newsflash — maximum ten lines but otherwise no rules . |
| 5 | Not , this time , the 1975/6 droughts but now the coldest February in 40 years . |
| 6 | An incomer friend — all of seventeen years but forever an incomer — in Ness had wailed . |
| 7 | He got up and down again and this was a real tough hole , 475 yards but still a par-4 . |
| 8 | The oldest inhabitants were black , though they were not one people but quite a variety . |
| 9 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 10 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
| 11 | It is not only the Indians that divide life into two compartments but also the Buddhists . |
| 12 | Ernst and Young has cut its annual graduate recruitment by 110 to 540 over the last two years but generally the big firms , some with workforces of over 7,000 , have been slow to react to the downturn . |
| 13 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 14 | I have n't cut the lawn for two days but tonight the garden smells of freshly mown grass nonetheless because next door have just done theirs . |
| 15 | There may be some value in examining not only the differences between the two approaches but also the common ground since each is part of one and the same process . |
| 16 | Reports say they will bid £8 million to buy out Swales , chairman for 20 years but now the subject of a concerted hate campaign by supporters following the sacking of manager Peter Reid . |