Example sentences of "but in the [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DPT polishing can be done on the same machine , using graduated diamond pastes , but in the Edinburgh workshop we have found that better results are obtained on a separate polishing machine . |
| 2 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 3 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 4 | But in the art world it 's not allowed to be mentioned . |
| 5 | He was nominated in January 1649 to the high court of justice for the trial of Charles I ; he did not attend the early stages of the court , but in the trial week he attended busily , and was in the group of commissioners who stood up to pass the sentence of death on Saturday 27 January . |
| 6 | In the annals of the theatre 1956 was the year of Look Back in Anger , but in the West End it was the year of Enid Bagnold 's The Chalk Garden — a full-dress Binkie Beaumont presentation , directed by Gielgud , starring Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft . |
| 7 | A stressful situation , such as having to catch a train or make a speech , might make a normal person 's stomach churn a little , but in the IBS sufferer it can provoke a violent attack of diarrhoea . |
| 8 | But in the Lake District it was exceeded no less than 17 times , with the top of Great Dun Fell having the most severe recorded incidence with 97 parts per billion , compared with London 's worst at 63 parts per billion . |
| 9 | The configuration and deployment of diving bells is defined , but in the air range it is not clear cut and therefore controversial . |
| 10 | I did n't like the beer factory all that much — it was wet all the time , but in the yeast factory I quite liked that , because I was working with machines … |
| 11 | Why is it that in the 12 months to September this year unemployment in Europe rose by 7 per cent. , but in the United Kingdom it rose by 40 per cent ? |
| 12 | Why is it that among men in the 11 other EC countries unemployment rose by 86,000 , but in the United Kingdom it rose by 609,000 ? |
| 13 | The wedding bells that sounded on the last page of so many ‘ romantic ’ novels of the last century are still sounding in certain genres but in the adventure story they seldom sound at all . |
| 14 | In those paintings where Kahlo wears European dress she is passive , weak and unable to control her own destiny , but in the Tehuana costume she is strong , powerful , hopeful . |
| 15 | What Ben did in his own time was up to him , but in the morning classes he was to do as Peng Yu-wei instructed ; learn what Peng Yu-wei asked him to learn . |