Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
2 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
3 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
4 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
5 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
6 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
7 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
8 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
9 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
10 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
11 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
12 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
13 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | you know you just still bewildered because you do n't understand , I mean like I go to this night class and apparently I , I learn from it , but in actual fact I do n't , I come out I get eight out of ten , nine out of ten , or ten out of ten and I have n't got a clue what it 's about |
16 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
17 | But in actual fact I think that for preliminary erm instruction I 'm , I would be better . |
18 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
19 | In tropical countries the importance of maintaining the cold chain is recognised , but in temperate countries it has been given little attention until recently . |
20 | I expected to have my family ripped to shreds , even though my childhood was extremely happy , but in Freudian analysis you look to the family for the source of all your anxieties . |
21 | I am not mad , most noble Festus , but in sober sadness I have suffered this day more bodily pain than I had before a conception of . |
22 | Facts are events which are both authentic and significant ; in most cases we trust judges and juries , or less formal bodies , to determine them , but in complex cases it requires judgement and is by no means obvious . |
23 | ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have . |
24 | Interestingly , the word ‘ Riserva ’ ( spelt thus ) is also applied to Italian Chianti — but in that case it means the wines are three years old before being bottled . |
25 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
26 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
27 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
28 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
29 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
30 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |