Example sentences of "but [verb] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | Ideally one needs to subdivide the original low-ROI businesses into those at the beginning of their life-cycle and those at the end , because one would expect ROI to increase in the former but to fall in the latter . |
| 3 | Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’ |
| 4 | In fact love has been defined as not looking at each other , but looking in the same direction . |
| 5 | In an interview with police , Smith , who at the time was going through divorce proceedings but living in the same house as her husband , told them : ‘ It was him or me . ’ |
| 6 | Similarly , if a director is thinking of selling the company in the near future , but continuing in the same employment thereafter , it might be better not to restrict salary . |
| 7 | They had agreed to live as if they were divorced , but continue in the same house together . |
| 8 | Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before . |
| 9 | Cautiously she admitted it but said in the same breath that it was of no consequence because her father had died for political reasons . |
| 10 | It is not how much we read , nor even what we understand in our heads , but receiving in the same spirit in which the scriptures were first written . |
| 11 | He did n't run but hurried in the same direction , and he kept him in view until Joe disappeared into the belt of woodland . |
| 12 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |