Example sentences of "but in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 2 | More , probably , has been written about this great hall-like chapel than any other building in the world ; but in fact no description , picture or photograph conveys the impact which it makes . |
| 3 | His memories of his Paris studio add spice to his account , for the facilities there were used not only by his students but in addition by such major artists as Miró and Picasso . |
| 4 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |
| 5 | The connoisseurship demonstrated in these two examples is built up from an accumulation of work by many scholars , but in the end , the cataloguer has to make a judgement , which for number 291 is in favour of Cranach 's authorship . |
| 6 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 7 | In truth the work exhibits great variety , not only in the gestures and postures of the different figures , but in the composition of each subject , besides which it is very interesting to see the various costumes of those times and certain imitations and observations of Nature . |
| 8 | But in passing , as they may be thought to have done , from journalism to fiction , Naipaul 's feelings , and their objects , underwent a change . |
| 9 | But in The Emperor no detail is adduced that might bring out what differences there could have been between the courtiers and petitioners of Ethiopia and their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 10 | They lived frugally but in style . |
| 11 | But in many respects they are very different , and they come from different times : they are separated from one another by three-quarters of a century . |
| 12 | These facilities differ in all parts of the world , but in Britain the evening class is probably the most accessible form of training . |
| 13 | Some schools will stipulate a number of Shakespearean speeches from which you may select , but in the main the choice of work is left entirely to you . |
| 14 | But in his motion like an angel sings , |
| 15 | But in the first term all students start from the base line , and take many classes , individual tutorials and work on production projects . |
| 16 | But in terms of the protestant — loyalist philosophy , the overwhelming majority of catholics oppose the state 's legitimacy . |
| 17 | But in all these instances , similar categories of differentiation occur — the insiders and the outsiders , the religious and the rough , the parent and the child , the female and the male . |
| 18 | But in justice I think a society needs civil divorce and that the real concern of the Church and the community should be to work at understanding prevention . |
| 19 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 20 | But in the end very disappointing . |
| 21 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 22 | But in the hotel and restaurant industry , the GRiDPad 's 12-hour rechargeable power pack and its genuine portability make it viable for operations like stocktaking . |
| 23 | But in the midst of these distractions , another side of reality was filmed — the lives of the people in the community who do n't make news . |
| 24 | I thought long and hard about it but in the end I decided it would be for the best . |
| 25 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 26 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 27 | My own landlord did , in fairness , give me veiled offers of money ( bribes ) to move elsewhere but in all honesty I simply was n't streetwise enough to figure out what exactly he had in mind . |
| 28 | The scheme had an interior logic to it but in order to see it you had to be , let me see , stark raving mad , I suppose . |
| 29 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 30 | Do more circuit planning flights with the last five hundred feet of the altimeter covered and try to guess ahead of time what the height and position will be ( not in feet , but in terms of very high , about right , or rather low ) . |