Example sentences of "but [num] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the London Borough of Southwark remained under Labour control after the May 1982 local elections , but two-thirds of the Labour councillors were new , following ‘ de-selections ’ and defections to the newly formed Social Democratic Party . |
| 2 | But two-thirds of the profits rebound , or £9.3 million , came from Brossette , acquired last year , and the balance from the US , where trading profits rose 33 per cent to £18 million , and from manufacturing , which contributed 17 per cent more at £10.7 million . |
| 3 | Gooch was chief hero with 92 and Lamb again showed what a good one-day player he is , but 22 of the total of 269 were wides that West Indies could ill afford . |
| 4 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 5 | No , dear Marines , these are n't mobile buildings looming out of the obscurity — but six of the mightiest war machines ever crafted ! |
| 6 | The Halifax increase takes effect from 1 November , but four-fifths of the society 's 1.6 million borrowers are on semi-fixed mortgages and will not face any changes to their monthly payments until 1 April next year . |
| 7 | Eighty-four bolts used to secure the windscreen were 0.026 of an inch below the diameters of the specified bolts and another six were the correct diameter but 0.1 of an inch too short . |
| 8 | BA will find posts for 400-600 of them , but 26 of the 38 Dan-Air aircraft will be sold , its charter operation will cease , and the airline 's scheduled service network will be cut from 28 routes to 12 . |
| 9 | The Israeli collection also came from a cave , but three of the four British collections are from open sites , in a hollow tree ( Stratton ) , an old house ( Salthouse ) and from beneath a tree ( Barton Turf ) . |
| 10 | But three of the poems which follow were published in 1807 — Alice Fell , Stepping Westward and Elegiac Stanzas — and when we consider that the major part of The Prelude dates from this time there seems no reason to challenge the usual critical dictum that this was Wordsworth 's major creative period . |
| 11 | But three of the region 's Tory MPs — Mr Jenkin , Mr Lord and David Porter ( Waveney ) — are due to vote against it . |
| 12 | If one of them had escaped from Whitely we 'd have known about it , but three of the cunts ? |
| 13 | But three of the supermarkets involved insist that their hygiene standards are high and their own tests found no evidence of bacteria . |
| 14 | Philistus was rated high in antiquity , but forty-one of the seventy-seven surviving quotations are all from the same late geographical dictionary . |
| 15 | But 16 of the 89 residues in the polypeptide chain are missing from the model , mostly at the C terminus , and poorly defined density is visible in the region containing the missing residues . |
| 16 | I discussed the evil of drift-netting as but one of a number of kinds of ecological terrorism . |
| 17 | When the structures of these salts were determined by X-ray crystallography , an oligomeric ionic structure was found — but one of a most unexpected type . |
| 18 | Thus they claim that modern Western science is but one of a galaxy of alternative explanatory schemes , and that what constitutes knowledge and reasoning is relative to norms defined by society . |
| 19 | Rather like his brand new sponsored Mercedes , in fact ; but one of a strange series of incidents reported in the press , and not always on the cricket pages , was the fact that Beefy 's car was broken into and the radio stolen the night before he scored a century . |
| 20 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 21 | At one time the Rowdies were mainly Skinheads for whom the terraces were but one of a number of arenas for collective action . |
| 22 | However , the statement of aims was but one of a large number of written and oral policy statements about primary education which the Authority issued between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 23 | What we do know is that in the autumn of 1869 Nietzsche was contemplating a large book , but one of a different kind . |
| 24 | Sub-contracting or contracting out was but one of a number of cost-cutting strategies . |
| 25 | ‘ You have beautiful legs , ’ Ray tried , but one of the other men had already told her that . |
| 26 | It is now revealed to be Blue period — but one of the last paintings of this series . |
| 27 | In 1950 the electors consisted of a board of the vice-chancellor and eight persons of whom five were at Cambridge and three from outside Cambridge ; but one of the five was away in America , and absent persons can not vote . |
| 28 | There is a little evidence that the final choice lay between George Chase , the Bishop of Ripon , mature in years and experience , a scholar , solid , stable , absolutely reliable , shy , and at times remote , and Michael Ramsey , without experience , untried , but one of the leaders of a party in the Church and someone who would do more to represent learning among the bench of bishops . |
| 29 | The little V10 car was hardly competitive at the 6000ft altitude , but one of the highlights of the weekend was Rosberg 's all-out qualifying lap , only three seconds away from pole . |
| 30 | But one of the main problems highlighted by the report was ignorance of existing health and safety guidelines , produced in 1988 by the Health and Safety Commission ( HSC ) and the Sports Council in a document called Safety in Swimming Pools . |