Example sentences of "but in [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 2 | ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’ |
| 3 | But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions . |
| 4 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 5 | Usually the date of publication may be taken as given , but in a few cases — particularly where publication in book form follows several years after original research — imprint date should be compared against any dates given in the foreword or introduction . |
| 6 | But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above . |
| 7 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 8 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 9 | The outer-arc ridge is usually a submarine feature but in a few cases , such as Barbados in the West Indies and Middleton Island in the Aleutian Arc in Alaska , parts of it are exposed above sea level . |
| 10 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 11 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 12 | But in a few days ’ time it might look a little different . ’ |
| 13 | On average they rise some 2 km above the surrounding ocean floor but in a few localities , notably at Iceland , they reach above sea level . |
| 14 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 15 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 16 | In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) . |
| 17 | But in a few places conditions remain unaltered and they suit the original design to perfection . |
| 18 | It probably looks a bit like hieroglyphics now , but in a few months , I guarantee that you will understand this and will begin to see a difference in your playing . |
| 19 | The Electricity Boards ' defence ( that the offers reflected their costs because small consumers were expensive to supply ) was plausible in principle , but in a few Boards collapsed under more careful probing , and allegations of unfair competition continued to flow both ways between the industries . |
| 20 | The charms of Lochinver are not found in the village , however , but in the immediate environs and in the hinterland . |
| 21 | But in the right circumstances , ‘ hot metal ’ is capable of some remarkable feats . |
| 22 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 23 | She lifted her head to look into his eyes , see his face , read his expression , but in the long shadows thrown by the torchlight it was impossible to read . |
| 24 | But in the short-term AS-levels are the only instrument we 've got for change . ’ |
| 25 | But in the 1970s students were flooding into English studies in previously unparalleled numbers across the range of relatively diverse institutions of higher education including the ancient and newer " civic or provincial " universities , the postwar " plate-glass " universities , and the polytechnics . |
| 26 | Our politicians still speak of help coming just around the corner , but in the inner cities of England and America , among the chronically unemployed , among the young faced with the long-term prospects of AIDS or the imminent threat of annihilation , there is little talk of hope . |
| 27 | But in the anti-colonial revolutions and the Soviet Union today external oppression is as commonly the fundamental source of the creation of a national group , no matter how much that group defines itself in relationship to inherited cultural symbols or a supposedly common past . |
| 28 | But in the economic conditions of the 1920s in the Soviet Union , there was little chance of workers ’ control . |
| 29 | They differ not in respect of reaction patterns but in the economic characteristics of the market concerned , and it is a matter of fact , not logic , to decide which model is appropriate for any particular market under study . |
| 30 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |