Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun sg] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To be sure , the characterisations are low key , but in other pix they have manifested depth , plot propulsion and story meaning . |
| 3 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 4 | They did find high incidence of eye diseases among local animals , but in each case they concluded that the most likely cause was infection from a common pathogen . |
| 5 | These , in themselves , do not do much harm , but in unpainted ply they form little traps for moisture and bacteria and so lead to trouble . |
| 6 | But in this instance they highlight only one phase of the star 's action . |
| 7 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 8 | But in this case they refer to licit , socially approved , marital sexual intercourse , to manliness in general , and are also directly connected with goats , the main livestock of the Kaffirs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But in this case they do have some basis in physiology . |
| 11 | Traditionally , African beer is drunk from a large cup , passed round the groups of drinkers , but in this village they had a different technique : they brewed the stuff in an old oil drum and served it up in buckets . |
| 12 | Also in this study another pupil 's comment was ‘ But in this school they see you 're different from them — like you would wear glasses — and they 'll be calling you names . ’ |
| 13 | These reality principles may be alluded to , or they may be disavowed in various ways , but in either event they set limits and conditions to what is articulated about racism . |
| 14 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 15 | But in another respect they take issue directly with Richards , following the guidance of Eliot . |