Example sentences of "in [adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compare these potential losses with the fall due to the recession , estimated by the Henley Centre for Forecasting at 9% in 1990 and a further 6% in 1991 but for the national press at 11% in 1990 and a further 12% in 1991 ( Media Week 8.7.91 — and the recession will be coming to an end by the time any tobacco advertising ban is introduced . |
| 2 | Hindenburg was elected President of the Republic in 1925 ; he was re-elected in 1932 but in the following year , by then virtually senile , he was persuaded to appoint Adolf Hitler chancellor . |
| 3 | Above Eaux-Bonnes is the ski resort of Gourette , which has been created in the kind of setting ski resorts ought to have , in pasture-land but at the foot of the formidable mass of the Pic de Ger to the south . |
| 4 | The paradox of Pius XII 's reign was the acceptance of chunks of a new model — the encouragement of modern biblical scholarship in the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu , of participant liturgical reform in Mediator Dei , of an increasingly multi-faceted lay apostolate — together with slightly ineffectual but still painful attempts to silence Congar and many others ( the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin most of all ) , the signing of highly reactionary concordats with Spain and Portugal , and an even greater stress on Marian devotion ( culminating not only in the definition of the Assumption in 1950 but in the ‘ Marian Year ’ of 1954 ) . |
| 5 | The illustrations , like those he subsequently did for Reginald Arkell 's Old Herbaceous ( 1950 ) are printed not in black but in a softer sage green . |
| 6 | It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train . |
| 7 | the roots of reductionism seem to drive not so much from a free-floating tolerance on the part of the people in general but from the convictions of the most influential elites that crime is best combated by social and institutional , rather than specifically penal means . |
| 8 | The power of United States federal courts to take evidence in aid of foreign proceedings was first introduced in 1855 but as a result of a series of what are now seen as misunderstandings fell into disuse . |
| 9 | The pleasure of parody 's irony comes not from humour in particular but from the degree of engagement of the reader in the intertextual ‘ bouncing ’ ( to use E. M. Forster 's famous term ) between complicity and distance . |
| 10 | Rates had cost £14,093 million to collect in 1988-89 but in the following year when they were replaced , the collection of the poll tax and non-domestic rates cost Scottish taxpayers £23,735 million . |
| 11 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |