Example sentences of "but [vb -s] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Power is not something that is possessed such as blue eyes or red hair but manifests itself in terms of relations with others . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 3 | This book focuses upon 1985 , a mid-way point in the Thatcher years , but places it in the context of the changing reporting which we have studied in the years 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1978 as well as 1985 . |
| 4 | The Prison Service is reviewing the leave system , but defends it in principle , saying : |
| 5 | He decided they are not , ‘ since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw , but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form — upon the printed page . ’ |
| 6 | But links them in a bird 's inhuman joy |
| 7 | In this way the plant provides the larva with somewhere to live and feed , but keeps it in one place where it can not damage the leaves , buds or other important parts of the plant . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 9 | Will he find time to consider the plight of my constituent , Mrs. Christine Williamson , who , after 25 years at home nursing a severely disabled child is now able to go back into the labour market , but finds herself in a Catch-22 situation ? |
| 10 | Notice that the square-wave generator must sink more current than it sources : it charges the capacitors in series , but discharges them in parallel . |
| 11 | , D O E. Er I 'm sure that members of the panel appreciate why I 've remained silent during the discussion of item two D , but does anyone in the room who does n't fully understand , it 's simply that the Secretary of State of exercises role in relation to a new settlement . |
| 12 | Treitel plays stimulating games with ideas of mathematical , biographical and fictional truth , but encloses them in a relentlessly ‘ comic ’ matter of the most put-downable kind . |