Example sentences of "[noun sg] but in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's still much about meningitis which remains a mystery — why , for instance , cases of the disease come not in isolation but in localised clusters . |
| 2 | Sometimes the relationship is one of co-existence — two cultures exist side by side but in separate compartments . |
| 3 | ‘ When you are retiring , Your Majesty , ’ he was urged by K. P. Pobedonostsev , who had been his boyhood tutor and from 1880 to 1905 was Procurator of the Holy Synod , ‘ do shut the doors behind you not only in the bedroom but in all adjoining rooms , the hall included … check every evening underneath the furniture . ’ |
| 4 | As we shall show in Chapter 8 , the Labour Party entered office in 1974 with a radical programme but in severe economic conditions that restricted the freedom of manoeuvre enjoyed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his cabinet colleagues . |
| 5 | Since the invasion is illegal , it is often met with some sort of opposition but in general , the shanties remain , mostly because there is nowhere else for their inhabitants to live . |
| 6 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 7 | The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism . |
| 8 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 9 | For , if pressed , many are likely to say that they feel more in common with others in the same discipline in other institutions — even on the other side of the world — than with academics in the same institution but in different subjects . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not saying Eddie 's incapable of violence but in this case I think you 're on the wrong track . |
| 11 | It 's impossible to say if this element affected the Asian research scientist 's vote but in General Elections it is the issues , usually , which dominate . |
| 12 | Is not it about time that the Government stopped this practice of recruiting and exploiting young people who are deemed not old enough to cast a vote but in some cases are being forced to continue in the Army and can be put into armed combat , as they were during the Gulf war ? |
| 13 | These great trees are filled with rooms and staircases , not just in the big main trunk but in most of the other branches as well . |
| 14 | MUST BE NOTIFIED IMMEDIATELY IN WRITING TO SUCH CARRIER BUT IN ANY EVENT WITHIN THREE DAYS OF DISCOVERY AND IF POSSIBLE A REPORT OBTAINED AT THE TIME OF ARRIVAL . |
| 15 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 16 | Not in one village but in thousands . |
| 17 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 18 | Some people have notions of using the technology as an ambitious static analysis machine but in most cases it simply presents more data than anybody needs and will have to be restrained . |
| 19 | Peloponnesian and Cretan sculptors work at first not in marble but in local limestones ; later sometimes in marble imported from the Cyclades , but the softer and more readily available stone is long used everywhere for building and for architectural sculpture . |
| 20 | Judge David told them , their lives had been devoted to the relief of pain and suffering but in this case they chose to inflict considerable pain on a young woman in their care , isolated by their way of life . |
| 21 | I have known others like Jackie , not in motor sport but in other areas . |
| 22 | Initially the grants were concentrated mainly in the higher education sector but in recent years attention has been switched to the schools sector . |
| 23 | Certain specialists such as female dieticians and nutritional experts may be employed in the health sector but in general positions in the contract catering field remain exclusively male . |
| 24 | because it is the creation of wealth that creates employment , not in the thing that is creating the wealth but in other things . |
| 25 | Jean Harlow , alias the teenager Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City , was doing all she could to pull Hollywood out of the slump but in general the more respectable critics were more prepared at this time to hand the plaudits to the male actors , who were seen very much as the cutting edge of the new realism . |
| 26 | He thinks this is an question but in small societies may be a much higher level of democratic erm intervention at all levels would be possible , but it 's only in modern societies that participation on a very extensive scale becomes absolutely impossible . |
| 27 | North sea operators are given dispensations , not only when there are equivalent or higher alternative arrangements in place but in some cases when it is well known to the authorities that the platforms are operating at a level that would not be allowed if they were completely new platforms . |
| 28 | In five of these seven , the stones were also found by ultrasonagraphy but in two , recurrences were identified by oral cholecystectography , which had not been detected by echography . |
| 29 | Then , of course , you saw the development of the kind of tycoon trustee who wanted not only his own wing but in extreme cases to appoint his own curator to that wing . |
| 30 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |