Example sentences of "but in a [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 But in a strange way the desperate state of the house opened up its history and construction to our eyes : in an eighteenth-century building everything is usually concealed behind plasterwork .
2 One should not attribute human qualities to natural phenomena , but in a strange way the gentleness with which Mt Pelee buried its victims seemed like a sort of atonement for their deaths .
3 ‘ John David ’ does not question the child 's ‘ right to live ’ but in a real sense the ability of parents — mainly the mother — to accept the child into their home .
4 If the client recovers nothing , the lawyer receives no fee , but in a successful case the lawyer receives a percentage of the damages recovered .
5 Nowadays methods vary from teacher to teacher , but in a typical lesson the pupil is likely to find himself lying , sitting or standing on a hard table while his teacher , using hands and voice , gently guides his head and gets him to release his neck and shoulders .
6 His mother and a council of nobles were appointed to act as Regents , but in a short time the queen had fallen out with her colleagues , not least because she was an avowed supporter of the house of York , while several of them stood for Lancaster .
7 One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do …
8 When frozen , some of these waterfalls can offer ice-climbing practice , but in a hard winter the cloughs often fill with deep snow and their ascents can vary in difficulty from Grade I to impossible .
9 But in a primitive way the view that the upper classes were a higher type of humanity , developing its superiority by endogamy , and threatened by mixture with the lower orders and even more by the more rapid increase of the inferior , was widely held .
10 For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) .
11 But in an affluent society the problem of poverty is fundamentally different from what it is in an underdeveloped economy .
12 Christopher Glen 's complaint against whingeing Scots ( Points of View , today ) is understandable , but in an overcrowded world the consequences of large-scale immigration must be faced .
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