Example sentences of "[adj] but in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 2 | The two tasks are interrelated but in this book we separate them and look in this chapter at the first and most difficult task . |
| 3 | Rev Jim Caterer , vicar of Standish , said : ‘ I never say something is impossible but in this case I wish I could say just that . |
| 4 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 5 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 6 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 7 | The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times . |