Example sentences of "but [prep] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've solved the ulcer problem for nearly everyone , but for one in a hundred it does n't work . |
| 2 | ‘ Bills must be a headache , ’ I sympathized , ‘ but worth it in the end . ’ |
| 3 | It 's expensive but worth it in the long run . |
| 4 | The age of the victim was not always clear , but about one in eight of the cases involved children under the age of 10 . |
| 5 | ( Many of us take a few days off a year due to PMS , but about one in five women takes a fortnight or more ) . |
| 6 | We are talking not about an industry in decline — no matter what some right hon. and hon. Members may think — but about one in which oil and gas production will rise from more than 2 million barrels a day now to a new peak of almost 3 million barrels a day by the end of the century . |
| 7 | ‘ It was about 5.30pm , pouring with rain outside and I was making Sophie 's tea when a preacher came to the door and broke the news , but like everyone in that situation you just do n't believe it . |
| 8 | About 40,000 men a year undergo vasectomy , but with one in three marriages ending in divorce , increasing numbers are forming new relationships and wanting to have a second family . |
| 9 | But with her in the same building is the new Social Security Secretary , Mr Peter Lilley , an unreconstructed Thatcherite , in charge of the Government 's biggest budget — the £66 billion spent on welfare benefits . |
| 10 | Ward was very much the old Etonian now , his manner still mild , but with something in the voice that held Rodriguez riveted , both hands on the table and his bottom half out of his seat . |
| 11 | but with us in work all the time , time we get home from work the chiropodist 's gone |
| 12 | a col , because it is no more than I , 200 feet high , but from it in fact you can see a great distance to both north and south , over the low hills and wide , cultivated valleys in the direction of Orthez and Pau , or into the forests and middling mountains towards the frontier . |
| 13 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 14 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself in extreme cases the fish has been known to leap from the tank . |
| 15 | Everyone knows the fantastical splendours of that fairy-tale citadel called St Pancras and the lost magnificence of the Euston Arch , but beyond them in the rest of Britain stood other wonders : the medieval Gothic abbey that was Richmond Station , the handsome Jacobean mansion that was Stamford East , the elegant French Renaissance château of Southport Lord Street , the trim Alpine hunting-lodge that was Kendal , the airy Edwardian summer-house that was Wemyss Bay . |