Example sentences of "in [noun sg] but it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind of limitations imposed by restrictions of full-time caring are not normal to someone in midlife but it takes courage to change the pattern once the need to be restricted has passed . |
| 2 | The problem is one which can not ultimately be resolved in pedagogy but it needs to be recognized , not in negative terms as a licence either for imposing fixed ideas or for random expediency , but as a positive incentive for continuing enquiry , which will be sensitive to the circumstances of different learning/teaching situations . |
| 3 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 4 | Mr Christopher 's speech had been planned well in advance but it had the effect of underscoring US support for the Russian president as he battled with hardliners in parliament . |
| 5 | It did , however , provide that the Agency , through investigation , could help to ensure that employers promoted equality of opportunity in employment but it did not provide that employers had a duty themselves to promote equality of opportunity in employment . |
| 6 | Like every other intelligence agency the NSA is very good at giving politicians what they want to hear in peacetime but it has no wartime experience at all . |
| 7 | She had originally had it in childhood but it had disappeared at 14 years . |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody is against pedestrianisation in principle but it has been too harshly applied , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it does n't have a boundary or edge : if you sail off into the sunset , you do n't fall off the edge or run into a singularity . |