31.   But British authorities placed the girls in a temporary foster home after a judge in Little Rock said that the adoption might not have been valid.

32.   But British authorities in the Colonies shut it down.

33.   But British authorities have rejected the claim, saying he was in London for health reasons, not diplomacy.

34.   But he ran afoul of British authorities - again on firearms charges - and was convicted.

35.   But the British authorities also insist that evacuees pay their own way to any destination, whether nearby Caribbean countries like Antigua and St. Kitts, or London.

36.   But the Irish prime minister, John Bruton, blamed the British authorities for mishandling the march crisis and thus causing the violent protests.

37.   But the moment he landed on Friday, the British authorities, through an unusual cooperative agreement, took him into custody.

38.   But the British authorities said Sunday that, back in July, Home Secretary David Blunkett, asked France to move the camp at Sangatte, near Coquelles.

39.   But there has been little evidence of a broad crackdown by British authorities against Muslims.

40.   By last June, British authorities had contacted the FBI about possible money-laundering through Benex accounts at the Bank of New York.