Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have problems in the Labour Party but we ai n't that barmy . ’ |
| 2 | Sportsmanship might be an old-fashioned concept to many in the modern game but it has to be protected . |
| 3 | The allied general counts as a character in the normal way but he does not benefit from any of the special rules for generals . |
| 4 | In such areas the landscape was as much medieval as in the open-field lands but it was very different and had a different pattern of settlement within it . |
| 5 | I er I du n no I think you maybe do in the fifth year but I doubt it , but I mean it 's so stupid though we got it opposite our school I mean it 's not as if it would be that difficult for the people in our school to pay for us . |
| 6 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 7 | Not in the biblical sense but you know what I mean |
| 8 | We have some people on training courses who could tell that they 're quite theorists cos question of challenge if you actually put forward some ideas they 'll , they 'll question them , not in a negative way , but they just want to know well where have these come from and why and why is this and on your training courses what theorists will do is if you 're actually putting together forward and processing procedures that C U follow , they 'll question why they wo n't just accept it , they 'll actually question it , not in the negative way but they 'll want to understand it . |
| 9 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 10 | No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have |
| 11 | Simmons entered the Test with two centuries in his two innings in the One-Day Internationals but he did nothing to erase the doubts over his credentials as a Test batsman , airily driving a low catch to mid-off . |
| 12 | Evidently the sound that has been heard in the upper room is not just in the upper room but it 's er it 's audible within the whole district . |
| 13 | There was a good layer of algae in the Victorian tank but I never noticed any of them feeding on it . |
| 14 | Now , his car had been unscathed in the wee knock but he felt aggrieved that she had not checked . |
| 15 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 16 | Sea bathing developed in the mid-eighteenth century but it still remained somewhat select until the railway arrived . |
| 17 | He , he home last in the fifty fly but he finished it for once . |
| 18 | there was an appeal for a penalty late on in the 2nd half but it was turned doen . |
| 19 | There was surprise expressed when Downey was included in the semi-final line-up but he made an invaluable contribution in the second half through his positional sense and slick distribution . |
| 20 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 21 | or how about Ray Wilkins … still playing of course in the premier league but he 's surely made of the right stuff to be a manager … |
| 22 | or how about Ray Wilkins … still playing of course in the premier league but he 's surely made of the right stuff to be a manager … |
| 23 | As a politician , Alan Keen may not yet be in the Premier League but he thinks the Boro will be next season . |
| 24 | De Lattre was a commander in the Napoleonic style but he was also a desert general who relied on an arc of Beau Geste-type forts . |
| 25 | Henry VII intended to have the remains reinterred in the new chapel but he himself died the day after its consecration and no one else bothered themselves with Queen Katherine 's corpse . |
| 26 | ‘ There will be some more repeats in the New Year but I hope it will not be too evident , ’ he added . |
| 27 | The applicants were formally offered work in the new premises but they refused to move and were dismissed . |
| 28 | His one-man show yesterday failed to prevent the Hammers moving to fourth in the First Division but it saved Pompey from embarrassment . |
| 29 | They did n't want the Health Service in the first place but we rapidly came round to it . |
| 30 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |