Example sentences of "but in [adj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this was all done in preparation for his wedding is not certain , but in 1744 he married a daughter of Richard Osborne from neighbouring Wortley House . |
| 2 | But in 1659 he won a landslide victory over a crypto-Royalist , and in the Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v. ] he proposed Chaloner Chute [ q.v. ] as Speaker and rose to his feet ‘ 20 times a day ’ . |
| 3 | The defendant squatter , Tillson , had occupied several acres of agricultural land belonging to the council since 1967 , but in 1983 he had apparently acknowledged the plaintiff council 's title by becoming their tenant of the land . |
| 4 | Later in the year , for defence against the Scots , convocation granted a tenth , but in 1298 it refused a possible second instalment on the ground that the Scottish threat had passed . |
| 5 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 6 | Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them . |
| 7 | Later this year we will be publishing a more comprehensive paper on this topic outlining what we feel needs to be done to ensure the integrity of official statistics , but in general we believe that there are three principles : 1 . |
| 8 | But in general I warmed to his fresh and unmannered account of this Concerto , and the orchestral accompaniment under René Leibowitz is especially supportive . |
| 9 | But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example . |
| 10 | Much remains unknown about viral persistence but in general it results from stalemate in the battle between the virus and the body . |
| 11 | In some areas the agency model holds good ( for example , county councils serve as agents of the Department of Transport in constructing motorways and trunk roads ) but in general it conveys an exaggerated picture of central domination , particularly as there is a great deal of evidence of continued local discretion in service provision . |
| 12 | The underlying reasons for this will be considered more fully below but in general it seems clear that large , volume production industries were characterised by low throughput per worker because of over-manning and insufficient intensity of capital use [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1971 , 1976a ] . |
| 13 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 14 | But in 1766 he came to the notice of Peter Beckford [ q.v. ] , then travelling in Italy , who , in return for payments to the father , brought the boy to live at his home in Stapleton Iwerne , Dorset , for seven years . |
| 15 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 16 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 17 | Only the grandmother seemed above it all , but in private she confided that the atmosphere of bickering recrimination made her feel sad and insecure . |
| 18 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |
| 19 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 20 | In the event Edward was to have no qualms about dismantling the power of the second earl in the 1470s , but in 1469 he wanted to keep his options open and , in particular , to keep the support of the surviving members of the Herbert connection . |
| 21 | In the event Edward was to have no qualms about dismantling the power of the second earl in the 1470s , but in 1469 he wanted to keep his options open and , in particular , to keep the support of the surviving members of the Herbert connection . |
| 22 | Gamma Cassiopeiæ in the W-shaped northern constellation of Cassiopeia is usually about magnitude 2.2 , but in 1936 it flared up to 1.6 before fading back to below its normal brightness and then making a slow recovery . |
| 23 | His family had regularly provided MPs for the adjacent borough of Plympton Erle since 1437 ; but in 1597 he became the first to represent the county . |
| 24 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |
| 25 | This rose to 50% in the mid 1980s , but in 1991 it shot up to 55% . |
| 26 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 27 | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music , a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time . |
| 28 | Lesley , our first child was born in 1988 in Rutherglen , but in 1989 we moved again . |
| 29 | Ungo went briefly into exile , but in 1979 he returned to take a seat on a civilian-military junta , resigning after three months [ see pp. 30045-46 ; 30322 ] . |
| 30 | But in 1937 it switched to Kirov , in honour of a local party commissar ( it transpired he was assassinated by Stalin , who thought him too popular ) . |