Example sentences of "in [adj] but [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He married first wife Sue Walpole at 17 in 1971 but the marriage ended after 11 months through his flings with other women . |
| 2 | He recalled that Venables and Sugar had been hailed as the ‘ dream ticket ’ team to run Spurs when they took control in 1991 but the relationship turned sour . |
| 3 | More than 65,000 grey squirrels were poisoned in 1991 but the law forbids bait to be laid in woods inhabited by both species . |
| 4 | This means that German coal producers can expect DM 550 million as coking coal aid and DM 184 million as investment help in 1984 but the government has expressed a disinclination to subsidise exports , which it plans to phase out . |
| 5 | Keegan led Newcastle to promotion in 1984 but the club failed to build on the success . |
| 6 | The best it has been able to achieve is loose , probabilistic associations which sometimes , in all but the terminology used , have treated individual offenders as at least partially free , rational and choice-making ( and in so doing , has to some extent converged with classical criminology ) . |
| 7 | An exact translation of the above English cleft structure would be very unnatural in Arabic but the structure opted for is also clumsy . |
| 8 | In fact the earliest exports to Australia had been in 1820 but the breed did not become established for another 30 years . |
| 9 | The tall spire was unfortunately lost in 1703 but the building remains a good example of a Medieval town hall ( 554 ) . |
| 10 | If you were to compare it with a really accurate map there would be very little in common but the map achieves its aim successfully through massive simplification and artificial emphasis of the important features , in this case the stations and interchanges . |
| 11 | Richard II granted the fair at Seamer to Henry de Percy , Earl of Northumberland , in 1383 but the charter reads ‘ … in the sixth year of his reign in the year of our Lord one thousand , three hundred and thirty-seven ’ . |
| 12 | More effective deterrents must be found for the minority of drinkers who persist in driving but the progress made in many countries is very encouraging . |