Example sentences of "but in the [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon could have made double figures … with a little more accuracy and determination … but in the second half they eased back … the hard work had been done … |
| 2 | Six Finger Satellite might look unpleasantly like a '90s misappropriation of Devo , but in the dressed-down flesh they are a groovesome hardcore update of Wire with a head honcho given to lurching about like an adolescent , erm , Lurch . |
| 3 | So , themes of nationalism , self-identity , industrial power , anti-intellectualism and xenophobia had all featured in working-class rhetoric , but in the postwar period they derived particular effectivity by being reworked into a unified discourse of labourism . |
| 4 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 5 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 6 | Agrarian , ethnic , and religious influences will be examined here , but in the post-revolutionary situation they all had negative rather than active political influence on the conduct of high politics . |
| 7 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
| 9 | But in the wrong hands they are as lethal a weapon as a gun . |
| 10 | The cathedral clergy were to take the profits from the mint they ran , but in the short run they were evidently short of cash . |
| 11 | The Stanleys promptly married the girls into their own family , but in the short term they were unable to dislodge the Harringtons from Hornby , and the dispute dragged on into Edward 's second reign . |
| 12 | The Stanleys promptly married the girls into their own family , but in the short term they were unable to dislodge the Harringtons from Hornby , and the dispute dragged on into Edward 's second reign . |
| 13 | Love and death have always been themes exciting the imagination of poets ; but in the last century they figured in works of art and literature to an extent that was almost obsessional . |
| 14 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |