Example sentences of "but in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material . |
| 2 | Speyside , Orkney and Powys all had a 95% ownership figure but in North Wales and Wester Ross the land owned amounted to only 16% and 6% respectively . |
| 3 | Calluna vulgaris is the most frequent shrub , accompanied by E. cinerea on drier soils but in north Britain E. tetralix or even Empetrum often replace it . |
| 4 | But in North America modernity , while retaining this basic meaning , has become a term that is not only descriptive of the central features of modern life in advanced societies but increasingly contains a moral dimension ; that is to say , modernity is viewed with concern as a source of conflict , contradiction and danger . |
| 5 | The UK evidence ( Labour Research Department , 1987 ) confirms the view that outward investment by home-based manufacturing concerns has concentrated not in the Third World but in North America and western Europe ( rather than the Commonwealth ) ; it is the wish to have a stake in economies that are growing more rapidly than the UK which is the key factor in company decision-making . |
| 6 | As has been mentioned , this system of sales solicitation is used very rarely for end customers and only sparingly in industrial markets , but in North America it has reached a position where there are many complaints about such telephone calls being classed as an ‘ invasion of privacy ’ . |
| 7 | A regular brisk walk will improve muscle tone , but in winter protect your cheeks with a generous application of moisturiser and a soft woollen scarf pulled up round your face . |
| 8 | In summer when the leaves were thick travellers were still within easy bow-shot of cover but in winter and spring when leaves were sparse the danger of ambushes was much lessened . |
| 9 | Cover the area and keep the joints damp in warm summer weather , but in winter cover the area for at least 24 hours to prevent frost attacking the mortar before it is thoroughly hardened . |
| 10 | But in winter , ‘ As the darkness thickened the wind increased , and each blast raked the iron railings before the houses till they hummed as if in a song of derision ’ . |
| 11 | In the summer we can go out and draw from direct observation , but in winter it is too cold , but when we get back to the classroom we can draw from memory the tree we have just examined and put down on paper as much as we have learned and remembered about the tree , its form , its colour , and its texture . |
| 12 | The tram journey , although long and monotonous , was usually fun , but in winter the compartments were bitterly cold . |
| 13 | In summer readily distinguished from Black Tern by conspicuous white forewing , rump and tail , shorter stouter reddish-brown bill , but in winter hard to separate except by lack of dark spot on side of breast , paler rump or brighter red legs . |
| 14 | It should be suppressed in spoken language interpreting , but in sign language interpreting it may not be , since speech and sign , at least on the surface , will not compete for the same articulator . |
| 15 | To confront the anger of God , not to hurl it in others ' faces , but in humility to confront it ourselves , is to find a knife to cut through our pious cant , and a fire to burn up our sentimentality and our complacency . |
| 16 | But in theology we commit enormous howlers . |
| 17 | In county cricket it is rare enough , happening only once last summer when Warwickshire played Hampshire in the NatWest semi-final and both teams had two Smiths on their side , but in Test cricket , the Christchurch match chalked up what looks like a first . |
| 18 | They lived frugally but in style . |
| 19 | But in style and technique it denoted a big advance , notably in terms of realism ; this involved such elements as exact motion control , detail in modelling , quality in matte printing , and inventiveness in the creation of robots , monsters etc . |
| 20 | But in spite of clear signals from Virgin Records that it wants to remain independent , speculation was rife that the purchaser might be Sony . |
| 21 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 22 | But in spite of his words there was a fusliza , ’ Tilda said as we walked back slowly along the path of Robina 's scruffy garden bordered by dark , unclipped shrubs . |
| 23 | But in spite of its long history of resistance to the throne , the Commons still bans direct criticism of the monarch , and it was evidently decided that Mr Wilson 's motion implied criticism of the Queen for dubbing Sir Johannes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is assignable in writing by the owner during his lifetime ; but in spite of any assignment or agreement made by the author , it will revert to his representatives twenty-five years after his death . |
| 26 | It can be argued that he won the election not because of the Tory campaign but in spite of it . |
| 27 | But in spite of the assurances of the District 's Executive Committee , his salary was almost continuously in arrears up to 1930 . |
| 28 | But in spite of her slightly forbidding looks , Mrs Webster was kind , if in a rather unimaginative way . |
| 29 | But in spite of all the commotion , I am relatively happy . |
| 30 | But in spite of this I feel I am as well able to overcome them as anyone else . |