Example sentences of "[noun pl] but in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may seem obvious steps but in many cases aspects of the detailed planning for quarry development have been missing and delaying progress . |
| 2 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 3 | The democratic forms of the Council and committees and the rigid hierarchical structure of the service have some great strengths but in many ways are not geared to the modern task of managing thousands of people and hundreds of millions of pounds of assets . |
| 4 | In the first chapter of his autobiography , we have an interesting record of this struggle , which he wrote down in English words but in Greek characters , in order that his thoughts erm should n't be accessible to his family . |
| 5 | The initial strategy planned by APU was to examine pupils ' performances not in the recognized school subjects but in certain areas of development — the verbal , mathematical , scientific , ethical ( subsequently changed to social and personal ) , aesthetic and physical . |
| 6 | ‘ Attempts were made to conciliate between Diameter and their clients but in many cases the bureau suffered the same frustrations experienced by the complainant , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It is covered by scales ; in small specimens , disk diameter c. 2.5 m , it is possible to distinguish the centrodorsal and primary plates but in larger specimens they become inconspicuous . |
| 8 | It will prove essential reading for a wide range of physicians , dentists and health care workers not just in tropical countries but in other regions of the world too . |
| 9 | It will prove essential reading for a wide range of physicians , dentists and health care workers not just in tropical countries but in other regions of the world too . |
| 10 | The two sheikhs managed to keep control in their communities but in other ones there were disturbing incidents . |
| 11 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 12 | In general wives were now thoroughly enjoying the experience after initial reservations but in two cases the wives were unhappy . |
| 13 | It is undoubtedly the case that many AJRs raise matters of urgency for applicants but in such cases the applicant , who is usually the party with the interest in obtaining information , can choose not to seek discovery etc . |
| 14 | These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves . |
| 15 | Bull has confirmed its intention to re-group several development teams within Bull Systems Products , ‘ which are working on common programmes but in different establishments . ’ |
| 16 | In South Hams , for example , the towns of Totnes , Kingsbridge , Ivybridge and Dartmouth have not been designated ‘ rural ’ , and they contain more than half the council 's stock , with many houses located not on large estates but in pleasant settings . |
| 17 | Words can be split either according to a set of pre-defined rules or from a table of correct hyphenations but in both cases ensure that English English is being used rather than American . |
| 18 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 19 | He also imagined men photographed in colour , sprawled alone or holding each other , doing extraordinary things but in ordinary rooms , living rooms ; doing things on sofas , on sheepskin rugs , stretched across a coffee table . |
| 20 | Long before Plowden many teachers had rejected traditional approaches to learning because they seemed to deny the way children thought and reasoned , the way in which children could grasp complex ideas , the way in which children dealt with information ( not in the neatly boxed subject areas beloved by academics but in broad chunks ) . |
| 21 | Sinn Fein failed to get on top of the SDLP in other constituencies but in some areas such as Fermanagh-South Tyrone it ran it a very close second , and it remains to be seen how it will develop its position and policies . |
| 22 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
| 23 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 24 | Genetic relatives will tend to be alike not just in facial features but in all sorts of other respects as well . |
| 25 | We must consider the mandate not in party terms but in personal terms . |
| 26 | Few deny the importance of capital inflows as a means of accelerating economic development in LDCs but in past decades most development capital was provided by private and institutional investors purchasing medium and long-term bonds ( dealt with in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 27 | Usually , where subsidiaries have shares in issue which are not held by another company in the group they are reported in the consolidated financial statements within minority interests but in some cases they are required by the [ draft ] FRS to be reported within liabilities , that is , as debt . |
| 28 | When the two types unite in a new amalgamated cell the genes are once again in two sets but in new combinations with genes from not just one parent but two . |
| 29 | The recognition of Saxon settlements , not under medieval villages but in open sites which were later abandoned , has also indicated that settlement patterns themselves have altered and the desertion of individual settlements within the pattern , even in quite recent times , means that settlement patterns are as dynamic and changing as the settlements themselves . |
| 30 | However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another . |