Example sentences of "[noun pl] but in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This is evident not just in the personalised PWL number plates on the directors ' cars but in the results . |
2 | There is always interest in all aspects of the show — not just in the dogs but in the displays , the trade stands and special events . |
3 | It was the logic of their medium ( the camera filmed what it saw ) and the need for stories that led producers to film aspects of their times but in the movies themselves the supremacy of fiction relegated society to a background . |
4 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
5 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
6 | My beliefs were based originally on the research and work of Dr Raymond Moody , Dr Ian Stevenson and others who have worked in the field of regression and reincarnation — not in the flamboyant , almost ‘ show-biz ’ , way of some earlier regressionists but in the interests of serious study of human spiritual evolvement . |
7 | This means that the accuracy of our picture of God is not shown in the orthodoxy of our creeds or testimonies but in the truths which we assume and count on in the concrete situation ; those moments when the heat is on , the chips are down and reality seems to be breathing down our necks . |