Example sentences of "but in [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1980s the policy prescriptions of the New Right gained intellectual ascendancy not only in Western Europe and North America but in countries throughout the world . |
| 2 | But in spite of the bumps in the beginning he kept coming back to my little home studio and that 's how the second half of our lives together began . |
| 3 | But in spite of the assurances of the District 's Executive Committee , his salary was almost continuously in arrears up to 1930 . |
| 4 | Saga travellers are now jetting around the world , but in spite of the company 's undoubted success , as a 1989 report demonstrated there is little evidence that the British travel trade as a whole has fully understood the importance and increased spending power of the older and more prosperous customer . |
| 5 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 6 | But in spite of the difficulties , I 'll continue to live in Sheffield and tour the provincial circuit , if only to keep the London comics suspicious . |
| 7 | But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour . |
| 8 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 9 | But in spite of the immense authority which he now possessed , his poetry had ceased to be fashionable or " chic " in the way that The Waste Land or even Ash-Wednesday had originally been : the new , or at least young , poets were no longer particularly interested in what he had to show them . |
| 10 | But in spite of the insistent use of demotic speech in The Confidential Clerk , the very quality which seems to be missing from it is contemporaneity — it is worth remembering , in contrast , that John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger was produced only three years later . |
| 11 | But in spite of the multiplication of new basic research tools in the humanities , it is surprisingly difficult to point , in specific areas , to solid , uncontroverted gains to scholarship which could not have been achieved without the new technology . |
| 12 | In October and November the raids were taking place nearly every night , but in spite of the disturbed nights almost everyone turned up for work next day . |
| 13 | But in spite of the problems , there was never any question of giving up . |
| 14 | But in spite of the changes , Sir George insisted that Constantinople was still a fascinating city , superbly sited , full of interest , and worth visiting just to see Hagia Sophia . |
| 15 | But in spite of the unhappy marriages , people go on marrying and remarrying , do n't they ? |
| 16 | But in spite of the setbacks , the basic story of the last seven years for these campesinos is one of hard-won progress . |
| 17 | He justifies this as follows : ‘ If [ Bach ] is great , that is not because of , but in spite of the dogmatic and parching spirit of the Reformation . ’ |
| 18 | But in spite of the availability of extra officers and traffic wardens to help speed people on their way to the international , an early start was recommended for journeys . |
| 19 | He hopes they soon will , but in spite of the success they have experienced there are those who remain cynical . |
| 20 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 21 | If I use the DIR command on the problem directory there are no files listed but in response to the RD command I get the message : Invalid path , not directory , or directory not empty |
| 22 | Men from these Companies would be the first commando soldiers to fight a prolonged guerrilla war , not in the Middle East but in defence of the approaches to their homeland . |
| 23 | The cost of such an item in eleventh-century England is not known , but in Normandy in the 1040s it could be £7 . |
| 24 | Ever fair-spoken , Malekith said that he desired the kingship not for himself but in honour of the memory of his father . |
| 25 | But in favour of the latter is the awkwardness of the absence of a preposition before rendering , " they will grow wings " , and the Targum 's " and they will be renewed in their youth like the sprouting ( of plumage ) that rises up upon the wings of eagles " . |
| 26 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 27 | But in keeping with the healing theme of the new album , ‘ Natural Beauty ’ is an ode to preservation over annihilation and extinction . |
| 28 | But in keeping with the Littlewoods culture , he was a local man , Liverpool-born and working there for much of his life . |
| 29 | He was delighted to find himself not merely a Lord 24 years ago , but in possession of the regular expenses his status brings him . |
| 30 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |