Example sentences of "[num] but [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Banks indicated to the Labour Court , at that stage , that the numbers required for this task would be approximately 700 but despite the fact that full Extended Opening Hours are now in place , the figure actually employed by the Banks falls very far short of that number . |
| 2 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 3 | The stress σ is applied to spring E 1 and dashpot η 3 ; it is also shared by E 2 and η 2 but in a manner which varies with time . |
| 4 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 5 | Numbers will increase gradually from the mid-1990s but by the turn of the century they will still be below current levels . |
| 6 | In return for this co-operation the French asked that the child queen should be affianced not to Edward VI but to the Dauphin of France , and that she should be brought up there . |
| 7 | I mean I used to , I can chart the American way you see cos but the American way is different to the British way cos we just count number one to eight but with an American they go one one , one two , one three , one four , one five , one six and then they come this way . |
| 8 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 9 | Where the death happens after 12/11/74 but before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , the termination of his interest is not a chargeable transfer . |
| 10 | In 1989–90 it took in £5 billion and paid out £9 billion , the following year 's net outflow was £1 billion but for the year just ended there was a £1 billion inflow and now that the government really needs cash , it is probably looking for about £5 billion this year . |
| 11 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 12 | Other societies would probably have followed Abbey National with stock market flotations in the early 1990s but for the hostility of the Building Societies Commission and the housing market recession . |
| 13 | The power of the court to disallow a mortgagee 's costs sought to be added to the mortgage security is a power that does not derive from section 51 but from the power of courts of equity to fix the terms on which redemption will be allowed . |
| 14 | 22 And in his review of O'Keeffe 's 1924 show , critic Virgil Barker had maintained that O'Keeffe 's emotions were balanced by her intellect : ‘ Miss O'Keeffe 's pictures embody intelligent passionateness. ’ 23 But from the beginning , most critics had responded to her art ( and continued to do so ) primarily in agreement with the position maintained by the Stieglitz circle , a position restated without equivocation by Rosenfeld in 1924 , when he wrote that O'Keeffe was ‘ one who shows no traces of intellectualisation and has a mind born of profoundest feeling . ’ |
| 15 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 16 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 17 | Singapore had been under Japanese occupation from 1942 but by the time Bernard reached there it was under the control of the British Military Administration . |
| 18 | To overcome this , some employers operate a policy a common retirement age of 65 but with an option to retire up to five years earlier if the employee wishes . |
| 19 | Next came the Class 58 , functionally similar to the Class 56 but with a number of radical design features such as external walkways along the sides of each locomotive ; a fleet of fifty entered service between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 20 | This may succeed for a week or two but in the end is bound to be as banal as the preacher 's brain , returning with monotony to well worn paths and well worked passages . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know what it is about the ‘ 68 but as a Fender Jag it 's got a real thin sound . |
| 22 | Normally , CGA can resolve 640 by 200 but on the Zenith it runs at 640 by 400 , which gives nice looking text in Text mode . |
| 23 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
| 24 | She had sought £43 million but outside the court she said : ‘ There 's no price you can put on this . |
| 25 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 26 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |