Example sentences of "but in [adj] [adj] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head . |
| 2 | This is not an important issue for women of European origin , in whom non-insulin dependent diabetes is quite uncommon during their childbearing years , but in other ethnic groups it is a concern . |
| 3 | As the century grew older , this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common ; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century 's end . |
| 4 | The postmentum remains undivided in the Thysanura , Isoptera and some higher orders but in many Orthopteroid insects it is divided transversely into a distal mentum and a proximal submentum . |
| 5 | But in many real-life situations it is not possible to collect information about every case — or the whole ‘ population ’ , as we call it . |
| 6 | Erm that tends to be unusual but in this particular case it is very relevant . |
| 7 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 8 | He had , but in these new circumstances it might be unwise to admit it . |
| 9 | It used to be considered a deformity in other breeds and led to automatic culling , but in several continental breeds it is now selected for , although it can lead to problems in calving and perhaps fertility . |
| 10 | But in most small businesses it really is n't worth their while having accountants in . |
| 11 | At this stage the hand and gun mechanisms were still on a vertical , rather than horizontal , plane , but in most other respects it was the Dalek . |