Example sentences of "but in the [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 2 | But in the 200 metres she finished second , three metres down on Retchakhan , whose time of 24.9 was a divisional record . |
| 3 | The trauma is still exerting an influence , but in the negative reactions it pushes against the trauma being recreated . |
| 4 | In the weeks ahead the loneliness would intensify , but in the early days there was too much happening to keep homesickness at bay . |
| 5 | Might the roots of this crisis lie , not among the victims of poverty who are now being blamed , but in the political priorities which devote our wealth to the destruction of life , and leave nothing over with which to care for the economic casualties of Thatcherism and Majorism ? |
| 6 | But in the final weeks she began to fall , and I organized a home help and district nurse . |
| 7 | Paige tried to pull her hand free , but in the close confines there was nowhere to go unless he let her . |
| 8 | When arrested , Allitt weighed 13 stone , but in the following months she became anorexic , refusing to eat , and her weight plunged to around seven stone . |
| 9 | But in the following days nothing changed . |
| 10 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
| 13 | Politics tends to develop and generate within all large groups of people , but in the bad organizations which I have described politics dominates everything . |
| 14 | But in the wrong hands they are as lethal a weapon as a gun . |
| 15 | But in the wrong hands it 's just another public relations job , a waste of public money . ’ |
| 16 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 17 | Charlie Hatton had always been cocky but in the past weeks he 'd become insufferable and most of the meetings had broken up like this . |
| 18 | But in the last months her body began to reject the donor organs and she and her parents , Mike and Sandra Good , were told there was nothing more doctors could do for her . |