Example sentences of "[adj] but in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts are made to teach them German but in practice it is easier to teach the factory foreman enough Turkish to communicate with them . |
| 2 | This sounds very bland but in practice it is complicated by the fact that what is nice for one person is nasty for another and vice versa . |
| 3 | The concept of the student with a broad scientific base is fine but in practice it does not work . |
| 4 | That sounds fine but in practice it means that people from black and ethnic groups get a raw deal because their particular problems are seldom acknowledged . |
| 5 | Your comment that there should be ‘ a clear distinction between medicolegal intervention requested by the police and health care ’ may be an ideal but in practice it is often difficult if not impossible to distinguish clearly between the two . |
| 6 | I carried the coffee jug and filter and two cups back into the living-room and put them down on my coffee table , which sounds posh but in fact it doubles as a dining table , poker table and ironing-board . |
| 7 | through that but in total we are . |
| 8 | hip hop culture may not have meant an awful lot in Britain in 1992 but in America it remains a hot spot of commerce , musical cred and political dialogue . |
| 9 | In detail the class system is complex but in essence it is simple : the major division is still between capital and labour . |
| 10 | In some of them the retinotopic organization is quite loose but in others it is very precise . |
| 11 | Physically the brothers had much in common but in personality it seemed they were very different . |
| 12 | And what Mao is saying is quotes such talk may sound plausible but in fact it 's wrong . |
| 13 | Salt in itself is not bad but in excess it stimulates the adrenals , encourages hypertension , arteriosclerosis and the retention of water in fatty tissue ( cellulite ) . |