Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] [noun] but [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By delightful coincidence I spent the evening in another wood-lined building but with more positive conversation . |
| 2 | Deserted in this quiet noon but for the sweepers |
| 3 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 4 | It did not happen in some weird sect but in one of the largest and most prestigious Presbyterian churches in the Los Angeles area . |
| 5 | It would be easy to be a prophet of doom and gloom in these difficult times but in business and in the Association , I sense a new spirit of optimism that better times are just around the corner and that we are at last seeing the tangible signs of recovery . |
| 6 | In the first quarter of this year we 've seen more moderate growth in those geographical areas but in nineteen eighty nine nearly forty percent of Pearson 's trading ca profit came from economies outside the U K and North America and we expect our activities in these other areas to continue to grow at a satisfactory rate . |
| 7 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 8 | The disintegration of space/time was still taking place ! — only this thought came to me not in any orderly way but as a confused recollection of a passage in Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar — |