Example sentences of "but in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 2 | The marriage primarily affects the parties thereto ; but in the second degree it may be an object of interest with a near relative , and in that sense a benefit to him . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 5 | Er , but in the long run we 're on the lookout to continue to build both organically and by acquisition where appropriate er , on , on the main sectors . |
| 6 | But in the long run it only makes me feel worse about myself . |
| 7 | It seems certain that Louis-Napoleon would have preferred a prolongation of his power by legal means , but in the long run it was equally clear that he would not shrink from a confrontation with the opposition . |
| 8 | Weber notes that ‘ Property as such is not always recognized as a status qualification , but in the long run it is , and with extraordinary regularity ’ . |
| 9 | In the short run capital or plant capacity is fixed but in the long run it is variable . |
| 10 | Of course one must put a lot of effort into marginal seats , but in the long term you must not forget the safe ones too . |
| 11 | Teaching does indeed take time , but in the long term it is a great time saver . |
| 12 | But in the long term it could be predicted that Vietnam also would lose interest in a South Asian neutralisation since it was an ascending regional power . |
| 13 | You can adjust them , but in the long term it does damage them . |
| 14 | But in the long term he opened the way to the great revolution in industry that came with the advances on his original idea , made by such as James Watt and Richard Trevithick ( qq.v . ) . |
| 15 | Cramlington seems to be still planned but in the inner city we are now very definitely after the planners . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 19 | But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun . |
| 20 | But in the present case it appears that there was no sufficient evidence . |
| 21 | But in the present case it is contrary to fair play for Mr. Tully to prevent the plaintiffs from recovering damages caused by wrongdoing inflicted on Abbey . |
| 22 | But in the present case it was time to take a stand , to declare once and for all that on this occasion at least the truth was as obvious and evident as it appeared to be . |
| 23 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 24 | " Ownership " is a word of many meanings , but in the present context we can take it to signify a title to a subject matter … |
| 25 | Con seemed oblivious of it but in the enclosed space I found it overpowering . |
| 26 | But in the four-man final it was the Hawaiian goofy Ronnie Burns who , despite riding the longest tube , finished last . |
| 27 | This is not a wholly negative development , but in the new atmosphere it creates antiracist initiatives can only appear to be a patronizing and unacceptable form of special pleading . |
| 28 | But in the New Testament we encounter a change : the tense is a resounding present indicative — the Kingdom is here ! ’ |
| 29 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 30 | But in the preceding half-century it would be possible to speak in terms of an Angevin seaborne as well as land-based empire . |