Example sentences of "but [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher agreed to allow the Report to be sent out for consultation , but asked for one alteration . |
| 2 | Kite , the US Open champion , had a seven at the fourth but recovered with six birdies for a 69 , while Norman failed to join Faldo in the lead by missing from 8ft at the 18th for a 71 . |
| 3 | Drug related adverse clinical events were mainly trivia , but led to three patients on cisapride and one on placebo withdrawing from the trial . |
| 4 | Investigations were then suspended for lack of police evidence , but reopened in 1987 when another judge accused the Dicomcar police intelligence directorate of being responsible . |
| 5 | Edis was there in the holiday season , but lived at 32 Ladbroke Square , West London too . |
| 6 | He would not , one might guess , have destroyed the ugly new houses left by the occupying power of his homeland but lived in one of them ; and though ( like the heroes of Tolkien and Lewis ) he likes beer as well as wine , he is not interested , as they were , in the cosy provincial life of the academic coterie . |
| 7 | Cut 4cm ( 1½inches ) off the ends of two of the rectangular cakes and sandwich all four cakes together with some of the buttercream , the shorter ones on top , centred widthways but aligned at one end . |
| 8 | The very principle of social insurance lies not merely threatened but broken by 12 years of abuse by the Government . |
| 9 | The man stands like a kouros , left foot forward , but differs from one not only in the calf and the arms raised to hold it , but in having a beard and a cloak . |
| 10 | But to lose in 1992 as well — consigning his front-bench colleagues to many more years of frustration — is the death-knell for his leadership . |
| 11 | The oxlip , P. elatior , is a rare , shade-loving , species with flowers like a primrose in size and colour , but hanging to one side at the top of a tall stem . |
| 12 | Duty on spirits was unchanged but rose by 5 per cent on other alcoholic drinks , putting 5.5p on a bottle of wine and 1.5p on the price of a pint of beer . |
| 13 | Duty on spirits was unchanged but rose by 5 per cent on other alcoholic drinks , putting 5.5p on a bottle of wine and 1.5p on the price of a pint of beer . |
| 14 | each year since the war but rose by 18 per cent . |
| 15 | 1956 Arrested and charged with high treason , but discharged in 1961 after five-year trial |
| 16 | Ventricular fibrillation following the first thrombolytic agent did not occur in any of the 26 patients , but occurred in 2 after the rt-PA while in hospital . |
| 17 | There were other rooms with more beds , but keeping to one room meant only lighting one fire ; the autumn weather had turned chilly early . |
| 18 | The Little Černín Palace ( 12/155 ) , originally by J. J. Wirch but rebuilt in 1952 , has a lovely garden beyond it . |
| 19 | The latter was begun in 1617 for William and Mary White , but rebuilt in 1633 ; when the iron-founding and gentry family of Freeman acquired it in 1666 , they refashioned the interior with some of the finest stucco work in Sussex , masking the simpler tastes of its earlier owners . |
| 20 | The examples at Kaupanger ( Sognfjord ) , built c. 1200 but rebuilt in 1862 , and at Fantoft , near Bergen are simpler but also of considerable interest . |
| 21 | Five years ago he began seeing a psychotherapist , but stopped after two and a half years of treatment . |
| 22 | This research builds on a study of development in sericulture carried out in South India , originally with the support of the SSRC in 1975 , but up-dated in 1988 . |
| 23 | Another asked the National Pharmaceutical Association , which said that there is no medicinal product licensed for sale but referred to one small firm 's product , a 400 µg folic acid tablet , licensed only as a food supplement . |
| 24 | The seasonal cycle reaches 15 ppm at Point Barrow , Alaska , but declines to 1.6 ppm at the South Pole . |
| 25 | One-and-a-bit pence per mile does n't sound much , but multiplied into billions , even trillions , of user-miles , it is a rich seam of gold for cash-strapped governments . |
| 26 | [ That this House condemns British Coal for its closure of the Coventry Colliery at Keresely with the loss of 1,300 jobs , completed in a mere 13 days from the announcement of the decision to the working of the last shift ; believes that the pit is not abandoned but mothballed with 40 million tonnes of good quality reserves of medium sulphur content which will be kept on a care and maintenance basis until a link-up is organised by a privatised Daw Mill Colliery should the Government be re-elected ; condemns British Coal 's refusal to attend two meetings of local authority and parish councillors , local honourable Members of this House and church representatives and notes the absence at the meetings of 24th October and 11th November of the local Tory honourable Members ; and calls for a public inquiry into the methods of the closure and the false economics which talk of losses ' yet fail to take into account the future cost to public funds of lost production and taxes paid , and of dole and unemployment payments to be made . ] |
| 27 | Stations will be unmanned but monitored by 120 remote-control television cameras covering the whole system . |
| 28 | But according to one central-bank official , not even the quality of government is a condition of economic success . |
| 29 | But according to one retailer who thinks that the mail-order operation needs a lot of work to modernise and improve it : ‘ It represents cannon rather than rifle shot — it is old fashioned and they do not target customers properly . ’ |
| 30 | Much depends on overall volumes , load factors and the type of contract , but according to one source , UK prices for , say , an 80MW load with a 60% factor are lower than all the major EC producers except France . |