Example sentences of "[num] but a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had once put his ear to the door during one of his colleagues ' classes and had been able to hear nothing from Class 2 but an eery silence . |
| 2 | His regular visits to the hospital for treatment finally ended in 1991 but a psychiatric nurse still visits him every fortnight to help him with the bouts of depression he suffers . |
| 3 | Gothin et al , studying six adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and growth failure ( three with Crohn 's disease and three with ulcerative colitis ) , showed a normal sleep related serum growth hormone response in all six but a blunted response to arginine in one patient and to insulin in three patients . |
| 4 | There 's a conscious rejection of the sonic values of the '80s but a bright-eyed optimism about the 1990s . |
| 5 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 6 | She took the first set 6-4 but a sideways stretch to make contact with an English passing shot had the Belfast girl in trouble . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a normal CDAI of less than 150 but a high scan score indicating active Crohn 's disease was recorded in three scans . |