Example sentences of "this [noun sg] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your Royal Highness , Ladies and Gentlemen my name 's Rod I normally masquerade as the Chief Racing Coach for the Royal Yachting Association but I 'm not here in that capacity this afternoon but the coordinator rather a grand title for the Year of Youth Sailing and I 've been asked to give you a short ten minutes or so briefing on where we 're up to with th this project this year erm I know there are many familiar faces around so I apologize to those of you that may know some of this information already . |
| 2 | The board itself saw the advantage of this course but the chairman , Humphrey Browne , was worried that privatization would lead to a crippling strike . |
| 3 | In most cases it is not the jury who takes this decision but the prosecution , who , with the judge 's agreement , accepts the defendant 's plea of guilty to manslaughter under section 2 . |
| 4 | Two solicitors challenged this decision but the House of Lords held that since , in administering the scheme , the Society was acting in a public capacity in the interests of all solicitors and members of the public who employed them , the legality of its decision was to be judged according to principles of public law , not private law ; and so judged , what the Society had done was a proper use of its statutory powers . |
| 5 | It is inevitable that much will be omitted in this study but the bibliography lists several larger and more detailed works on specific aspects of Charles and his effect upon European history and culture . |
| 6 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it . |
| 7 | The summary table above makes use , in several places , of a more finely detailed task classification than elsewhere in this chapter but the range of success rates is still very wide . |
| 8 | There is no general agreement as to the answer to this question but the figure may lie somewhere between 50 and 80 per cent . |
| 9 | We lack up-to-date and large-scale British data on this issue but the model of linear flows , in which children are net beneficiaries , does seem to fit the evidence of smaller studies discussed elsewhere in this chapter . |
| 10 | Not only this room but the cinema itself . |
| 11 | Nothing nakedly visible , indeed not even a faltering step could be discerned during this event but the imprint was there , the unsettling moment had begun . |
| 12 | We know they can play this game but the defence is shocking . |
| 13 | Jeremy , 30 , and Ruth Leech were due to marry earlier this month but the love-match was called off because Jeremy had to play a tournament in the States . |
| 14 | Wickham told them : ‘ The note to Wainfleet was written this week but no paper like this was found in the office . |
| 15 | Nearly a half consider it to be fairly useful in this respect but a quarter to be not very useful , and 10 per cent not at all . |
| 16 | If , however , Rueschemeyer were making not a positive statement about substantive differences between law and medicine in this respect but a statement about general beliefs in such differences he would be on surer ground . |
| 17 | We feel we do a great deal of work in this area but the majority of it is incorporated in thematic work or incidental . |
| 18 | Few TVs now use this frequency but the government has yet to announce the end of 405-line TV . |
| 19 | A considerable proportion of euro-credit lending takes this form but the granting of large loans of over $50m has encouraged banks to provide funds via loan syndication . |
| 20 | We 're only suggesting a start on this project but the attitude of mind , our mind , in taking that particular step is important . |
| 21 | RUSSIAN and US nuclear submarines collided in Arctic waters this weekend but the crash , 105 miles off Russia 's northern coast , caused little damage to either craft , officials said yesterday . |
| 22 | Perhaps the future which Linton perceptively visualized has not yet been realized in this way but the basis of energy has certainly been advocated in the branches of physical geography , and perhaps most c ! early in climatology . |
| 23 | THE divorce came through in April of this year but the couple have remained on friendly terms . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 25 | Romany King has done nothing this year but the fact that he ran so well last time at Aintree has kept him short in the market . |
| 26 | ‘ To be honest , we have not been any busier this year but the accident toll has been higher than in previous times . ’ |
| 27 | The union 's officers advised their shop stewards to obey this order but the advice was rejected . |
| 28 | ( 1989 ) makes use of this possibility but the mechanism involved need not be the one they describe . |
| 29 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 30 | Within the South West of England a wide distribution of second homes was found ; 10 per cent of the total building stock in the extreme north-west of Cornwall were used for this purpose but the figure was between 1 and 5 per cent in most districts ( South West Economic Planning Council 1975 ) . |