Example sentences of "[noun sg] but in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I 'm not saying Eddie 's incapable of violence but in this case I think you 're on the wrong track . |
| 2 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 3 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 4 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 5 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 6 | If you were to use a DOS word processor as well as a DOS spreadsheet in the Windows environment then you can use the same method but in this case you would have to use the Edit , Paste command in the Windows Control menu box . |
| 7 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 8 | Now it does n't have to necessarily be the same subject but in some way it 's a repeated measures , that 's where you . |
| 9 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 10 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 11 | It 's called a quality system standard but in actual fact it 's a code of practice . |
| 12 | It is difficult to determine what proportion of these ships had wire rigging and which used the improved hemp but in any case it is clear that the West was largely won with better rope . |
| 13 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
| 14 | Each state has , in some states you can be eighteen and carry a gun but in another state you 've got ta be twenty one , they make all different laws . |