Example sentences of "[noun pl] but in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the more important of these was the quota sample , an attempt to approximate to random sampling methods but in a way that minimised the practical difficulties often involved in selecting and contacting respondents , so offering considerable advantages in cost and convenience . |
| 2 | But er Nottingham 's er city that 's proud of its nature it 's not generally realized that there 's about a hundred nature reserves in the City of Nottingham maintained by the city of the Notts Wild Life Trust and er this is great on the outskirts but in the city centre there 's too little nature in it . |
| 3 | This is evident not just in the personalised PWL number plates on the directors ' cars but in the results . |
| 4 | In all walks of life wives have to deal with emergencies but in the farming industry these can occur regularly and can assume considerable importance . |
| 5 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |
| 6 | Amongst them are subject pictures but in the main they are portraits , including a major group of Mary I , to whom Eworth acted as court painter , albeit without any official status . |
| 7 | In Hamble village , their first precious spare hours were spent not in the pubs but in the Tesco 's supermarket watching shoppers walking up to overburdened shelves and putting all manner of goods in their baskets . ’ |
| 8 | The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ . |
| 9 | Its innovativeness did not so much lie in the originality of the separate ingredients but in the recipe itself . |
| 10 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 11 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 12 | Before he left he wrote to Routh suggesting that if some of the money now wasted utterly in relief works were instead put into interest-free loans to the Irish railways , a great deal of employment would follow , not only on the lines but in the trade they would stimulate . |
| 13 | Poor rates mounted , and many magistrates and overseers continued their moral obligations but in a spirit of growing hopelessness . |
| 14 | Much of the contact-making happened not at diplomatic functions but in the marketplace , he recalls . |
| 15 | This means that it is not only effective for those who suffer from spinal disorders but in the treatment of many other conditions too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ It is possible that a slow economic recovery and lower beef prices will coincide to increase consumption in the next few years but in the wake of consumer scares , such as BSE , the market needs a push . |
| 18 | And finally treatment with er formaldehyde or ethanol has no effects on endotoxins but in a number of instances formaldehyde or ethanol will lead to er , the production of toxoid . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The breach with the inherited system lay not in Godoy 's policies but in the relegation to impotence of the trained bureaucrats who had been the servants of Charles III ; it lay in the scandalous origins and untrammelled nature of his power as the queen 's supposed lover and the ‘ dearest friend ’ of the complaisant Charles IV . |
| 21 | People come from all over Darlington for some of the activities but in the Denes area the church is regarded as a genuine focal point for non-churchgoers as well as regular worshippers . |
| 22 | The French are pragmatic to the point of openness over their illegal activities but in the end it is the smallest and most immoral of them all , Mossad , which is the most efficient . |
| 23 | It is now widely accepted in political science that democratic activity and representation not only consists of the electoral choice between parties and their programmes but in the contribution to policy making made by interest groups . |
| 24 | Nor of course , if we dismiss the idea of ‘ memory molecules ’ , could we ever anticipate a pill to restore lost memories , for , as I have argued , these are represented in the brain not in the form of particular molecules but in a multitude of specific neuronal circuits . |
| 25 | Jupiter is the planet of increase , which is worth considering not in terms of financial and material improvements but in the expansion of your awareness and self-understanding — an expansion which will lead to better things in the future . |
| 26 | The SLF has been pushing Government to ensure the interests of landlords are taken care of in the regulations but in the meantime , Mr Barlow said the advice not to relet was the only choice even although it would have a serious effect on entrants wanting to get into let holdings . |
| 27 | The signatory of the letter in the case of the miners was Mr Roy Lynk , President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers but in the case of the general population this was the patient 's general practitioner . |
| 28 | 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 . " |
| 29 | You might try to sell dreams but in the end people do n't buy them . |
| 30 | The stories have arisen in the first place because cannibalism is a fairly standardized imaginary attribute of the bestial " others " , not just among Europeans but in the world at large . |