Example sentences of "in [noun] but [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is staffed by a dozen officers working in shifts but supposed eventually to have three times as many . |
| 2 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 3 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 4 | The Quins , previously at ease , fumbled and fretted in defence but held on . |
| 5 | Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such . |
| 6 | Which is why all the products in the range are carefully formulated , not just to work in isolation but to work together as a complete programme — repairing , cleansing , caring and styling . |
| 7 | James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness . |
| 8 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 9 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
| 10 | He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself . |
| 11 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB is to buy the remaining 28% equity it does not already own in its Teleindustria Ericsson SA in Mexico but does not say how much it is offering : the shares are held by Mexican and foreign institutional investors , as well as by individual minorities . |
| 12 | He said Schmit had a considerable interest in aircraft but did not intend to cause damage . |
| 13 | In Fig. 4 ( a ) has been brought out in readiness but cut back until required . |
| 14 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 15 | Drummer Mark bears a spooky resemblance to the dodgy motor dealing brothers in Eastenders but do n't be put off . |
| 16 | Drummer Mark bears a spooky resemblance to the dodgy motor dealing brothers in Eastenders but do n't be put off . |
| 17 | ft , which makes Cramlington one of the major peripheral retail developments in Tyneside but does not produce the kind of balanced traditional shopping centre originally intended . |
| 18 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
| 19 | Stanley Kubrick 's 2001:A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) , produced in England but using both British and American effects specialists , was probably the first film to make extensive , and widely publicized , use of front projection . |
| 20 | There is another corner affected that remains in place but twists clockwise , giving URF →RFU →FUR →URF … , which we write as ( URF ) + . |
| 21 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 22 | Those who claim faith in Jesus but do not demonstrat This is what Our friends John . |
| 23 | He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough . |
| 24 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 25 | She had only three members of her immediate family left in Bosnia but did not hold out much hope of getting them out . |
| 26 | TB mares can be wintered in stalls but need daily exercise e.g. a horse walker |
| 27 | The mix of titles was excellent , but people were trading down — buying the same in volume but spending less on each item . ’ |
| 28 | He made no sketches in advance but got straight down to work with pencil and ruler , drawing the outline before filling in with emulsion paint . |
| 29 | Apple trees are its bread and butter in Britain but mistletoe clearly has no meal ticket . |
| 30 | Partisan nomination of senior judges used to be the rule in Britain but has not really been so since the 1920s . |