Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Annesleys had settled in Ireland in the 17th century but did not build Castlewellan Castle until the 1850s , when the bachelor 4th Earl Annesley commissioned William Burn to erect an austere granite pile . |
| 2 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 3 | The Liskeard Grammar School also survived into the nineteenth century but was described by Polwhele , early in the century , as ‘ … a low , mean edifice , bad without and worse within , the business of education … having been of late years , it seems , less understood at Liskeard . ’ |
| 4 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 5 | Antisemitism was not the creation of the nineteenth century but it revived in intensity about 1880 . |
| 6 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 7 | The mill at Ballygrant is of the nineteenth century but one would expect that there was an older one at Baile Grana Grain Township , and one at Cornabus Corn Farm , comes as no surprise . |
| 8 | The mansard roof and dormer windows were added in the nineteenth century but the predominant style of the château interior was Louis XV rococo , with traditional Picardian emphasis and additions . |
| 9 | Inside , the roof is of the nineteenth century but the fresco painting on the walls is one of the oldest decorative schemes in Germany , dating from c. 1000 . |
| 10 | It is a fortified monastery , restored in the nineteenth century but still containing a beautiful Romanesque nave ( see p. 11 ) and taller Gothic choir . |
| 11 | ‘ Social Darwinism ’ and racist anthropology or biology belong not to the science of the nineteenth century but to its politics . |
| 12 | It was significant in the nineteenth century but declined rapidly in the twentieth , as class became more important . |
| 13 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 14 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 15 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Part of the Semper wing of the Zwinger palace , the historic collection was known as the ‘ Rustkammer ’ ( armoury ) from the sixteenth century but renamed the ‘ Historisches Museum ’ after World War II . |
| 17 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 18 | Terry was still making League appearances for us in 1968–69 when Palace again gained promotion , this time to the elite of the 1st Division but , to his disappointment and the chagrin of all Palace followers , he was never able to turn out for us in Division One . |
| 19 | Muir 's nimble footwork merited a second Rovers goal at the start of the second half but Heald 's save prevented it . |
| 20 | Barnes kicked two more penalty goals to put Bath 15–9 ahead in the second half but Gloucester fought back and drew level again with two more goals by Smith . |
| 21 | Rod Wallace put Leeds ahead early in the second half but their inability to strike any kind of attacking rhythm obliged them , and the Elland Road faithful , to live on their nerves until Lee Chapman and Eric Cantona both scored in the final three minutes . |
| 22 | Bristol overtook Gloucester 's 14–3 lead in the second half but two late tries by Morris for Gloucester gave the score a more one-sided look than this mid-table contest had actually been . |
| 23 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 24 | Wales actually led 6–3 into the second half but tries to Damien Smith and Garrick Morgan and a conversion and three penalties by full-back Marty Roebuck put the Aussies 24–6 ahead . |
| 25 | Arsenal lost Danish international Jensen with a hip injury and England defender Adams in the second half but still have no real excuses . |
| 26 | Barlaston had most of the pressure in the second half but the opposition always looked dangerous on the break with both sides making light of the heavy weather conditions and playing some attractive football . |
| 27 | ‘ We were under a bit of pressure in the second half but it was our fault . |
| 28 | Well , Penguin always makes er , er , most of its profits in the second half but , but James would you like to answer . |
| 29 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 30 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |