Example sentences of "but in [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By twentieth-century standards the Thatcher governments have been radical and successful — not only in winning elections but in achieving so much of what they intended . |
| 2 | The way of doubt is not itself the path to truth , but in sealing off mistaken approaches it provides an impetus to the search . |
| 3 | But in printing especially — in literature and learning but also in scientific texts , in which accurately reproducible illustration played a crucial part — there was soon an evident asymmetry between the received and relatively rigid forms of social and cultural reproduction and this newly diverse and mobile cultural production and distribution . |
| 4 | But in swinging almost immediately towards the opposite pole , the heirs of the Reformation indulged the West in an excessive ‘ freedom ’ from which its culture has yet to recover . |
| 5 | ‘ But I ask you to be Americans again , to be interested not just in getting but in giving … not just in looking out for yourselves , but in looking out for others . ’ |
| 6 | Dr Eric Williams ' famous thesis linking the rise of capitalism to the slave trade probably overstated the extent to which capital derived from the infamous traffic fed into the growing industrial sector of the expanding English economy , but in pointing out that abolition came only when the slave trade was rapidly losing importance he can hardly be far from the truth . |
| 7 | But in considering where economies may best be made , they must , of course , take account of the likely effect on pupils and students . |
| 8 | But in considering how much oil and gas the USSR will produce , how much it will use at home , how much it will export to its Communist neighbours and how much will come to the West , it is important to remember that this is a totally controlled economy . |
| 9 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 10 | However , we are shown that success does n't only depend on technical skill , but in selecting just the right view to paint . |
| 11 | Microsoft Corp may be planning to port NT to the PowerPC like Computer Reseller News suggested last week but in sounding out the Motorola people on the subject it did n't seem like anything was imminent — and they want all the key operating systems on the thing . |
| 12 | But in retreating so hastily from my life in England , the decision to leave had been facilitated by the sheer lack of knowledge about what lay in store for me . |
| 13 | Physical injury was frequent , not only in notoriously dangerous places like mines , where gas explosions added to the threat of rock falls , gun powder mishaps and shaft falls , but in grinding where the huge wheels sometimes shattered into flying slivers . |
| 14 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |
| 15 | But in banging on to such an extent about high taxation , and promising to reduce income tax still further , they have probably missed the public mood . |
| 16 | Tom Mboya had supported these moves , not least perhaps because of his long-standing animosity towards Odinga , but in doing so sowed the seeds of his own downfall . |
| 17 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 18 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
| 19 | Joshua fills out the details of the orders , but in doing so clearly reads God 's mind , for he comes in for no heavenly rebuke . |
| 20 | Education does reflect social , economic and political needs or pressures , but in doing so it also subtly refracts the image and modifies the pressures — the balance within the relationship is not constant . |
| 21 | My own inquiry into God will try to make sense of the ‘ meaning ’ theist position , but in doing so I shall also be making clear — since they encounter one another on common ground — what the view of the ‘ meaning ’ atheist might be . |
| 22 | But in doing so they must not restrict the opportunities for one gender or racial group . |
| 23 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 24 | Our usual accounts of excitatory conditioning refer to associations between events referred to as CS and US , but in doing so they are guilty of over-simplification . |
| 25 | A headmistress in 1946 said that same thing at greater length , but in doing so collapsed into meaninglessness : In my opinion , such a school should not be an imitation of the old Secondary School ( that is , of the grammar school ) … |
| 26 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
| 27 | But in doing so , they burn the water 's dissolved oxygen . |
| 28 | Liverpool continued to power forward , but in doing so left too much room at the back — a foolish thing to do when they know just how Beardsley can exploit space . |
| 29 | The men in power see this as a menace and attempt to make their position more secure by fighting ; but in doing so they are forced to yield ground because of the losses they incur in decreased production . |
| 30 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |