Example sentences of "but the [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The episode may seem to illustrate sheer bloodymindedness , but the platers ' action was not unreasonable from their point of view . |
| 2 | But the employers ' organisation says the rate of manufacturing pay rises is overstated because of the number of pay freezes . |
| 3 | But the bishops ' warning may harm Herri Batasuna and sober up the many Basques who have persuaded themselves that ETA terrorists are a kind of latter day Knights Templar , wielding car bombs and Uzzis for greater Basque liberty . |
| 4 | But the bishops ' statement does not say so . |
| 5 | Nicol , capped four times last year , was due to fly home yesterday but the Lions ' anxiety about Jones 's throat infection caused the management to ask Nicol to travel from Western Samoa to New Plymouth . |
| 6 | Nicol , capped four times last year , was due to fly home yesterday but the Lions ' anxiety about Jones 's throat infection caused the management to ask Nicol to travel from Western Samoa to New Plymouth . |
| 7 | But the refugees ' horror stories have not changed . |
| 8 | Midfield dynamo Dave Gilbert and striker Mendonca linked well on the left , but the visitors ' defence held firm , ensuring Grimsby 's forward thrusts rarely progressed further than the midfield . |
| 9 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 10 | But the girls ' whispering had been right . |
| 11 | But the conservatives ' influence has lately seemed on the wane . |
| 12 | They established that , in the first instance , shipowners would automatically meet the cost of oil spills , through insurance cover which they would be obliged to carry ; but the owners ' liability was to be limited to a maximum of $18m . |
| 13 | But the officers ' dedication led to the conviction of Carl Dodds , of Blackfell , Washington , who was jailed for six years at Durham Crown Court last December for robbery . |
| 14 | But the miners ' sense of anger at the prolonged destruction of their industry is also worthy of note . |
| 15 | But the miners ' attitude was frightening . |
| 16 | But the miners ' roadshow did n't work . |
| 17 | But the miners ' strike did not only reveal that èlite groups of police officers were operating to some extent under national co-ordination and control . |
| 18 | Pebbles was an outstanding racehorse , but the Breeders ' Cup bid was none the less a characteristically bold move on the part of trainer Clive Brittain , for the Turf race is over one and a half miles and she had never raced beyond ten furlongs . |
| 19 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |
| 20 | But the theorists ' belief that our changing world requires an alternative to hierarchical organization is simply wrong , and all their proposals are based on an inadequate understanding of not only hierarchy but also human nature . |
| 21 | But the Founders ' vote for Manchester was also supported by Walsh , who was excited by the possibilities of fund-raising from the northern councils . |
| 22 | Specialist , outside manufacturers still make some component parts for Caterham , such as the chassis and the suspension , but the cars ' aluminium bodies are produced at Dartford . |
| 23 | But the Wallabies ' World Cup campaign and ultimate victory has resulted in a nationwide level of rugby union interest which has never been previously registered . |
| 24 | CALL IT teamwork , call it intuition , or perhaps summon that perennial old-stage Lady Luck , but The Joyriders ' opening gambit in the face of a non-committal Saturday night gathering bears the hallmark of an almost supernaturally-gifted outfit . |
| 25 | The pilots ' strike ended in November , but the machinists ' dispute continued . |
| 26 | But the Springboks ' strength in the scrum will also worry England . |
| 27 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 28 | But the Economists ' Bookshop , near the London School of Economics , which seemed the most likely to be interested in such a topic , failed , after an extensive search of its microfiche catalogue , to find any trace of it . |
| 29 | His predominant mode , in the Clarendon Building and All Souls designs and at Queen 's , as well as in other works , such as the Christ Church buttery ( 1722 ) and his Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College ( 1728 ) , was a simplified version of the baroque of Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] ; but the fellows ' building at Corpus Christi College , of which he may have been the designer as well as the builder , was close to the proto-Palladian manner of the Peckwater quadrangle , while his Radcliffe quadrangle at University College ( 1717–19 ) — again devised under Clarke 's direction — and his additions at Oriel College ( 1719–20 ) were faithful copies of the traditional Jacobean style of the adjoining buildings , the former including a skilfully executed Gothic vault . |
| 30 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |