Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 3 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 4 | But in such circumstances they are all we have . |
| 5 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 6 | To be sure , the characterisations are low key , but in other pix they have manifested depth , plot propulsion and story meaning . |
| 7 | The Romans were in some respects good engineers , as is evident from their sophisticated heating systems involving plumbed hot water and their networks of roads , but in other ways they were often surprisingly primitive . |
| 8 | There are some similarities to the New Confucian officials , of course — they dressed alike , in saffron robes , and had similar rituals and ceremonies — but in other ways they were completely different . ’ |
| 9 | But in other ways they differ very strongly . |
| 10 | Such cats may be at a disadvantage when hunting , because their sense of directional sound will be poor , but in other respects they can lead normal lives and make good mothers . |
| 11 | Orc and Goblin units are called Mobs , but in other respects they are exactly like the regiments of Men and Elves . |
| 12 | But in other respects they were tribal hunters and food-gatherers . |
| 13 | Such models are much too simple to describe the complex viscoelastic behaviour of a polymer , nor do they provide any real insight into the molecular mechanism of the process , but in certain instances they can prove useful in assisting the understanding of the viscoelastic process . |
| 14 | They do not have the ego-satisfaction of having thought up a brand new idea but in practical terms they do well ; The pioneer has developed the field and born the development costs . |
| 15 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 16 | But in ritual liminality they are placed , so to speak outside the total system … transiently , they become men apart . |
| 17 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 18 | Similarly , the victims of pollution may be readily apparent in some cases , but in many others they may be dispersed and diffuse . |
| 19 | They rushed into a series of Bills which , it was alleged , would open monopolies to competition , but in many cases they simply changed a state monopoly to a private monopoly . |
| 20 | Inevitably they will not suit every need , but in many cases they can be adapted , used as models or as a source of ideas for a teacher-produced worksheet , which can target particular objectives and be tailored for a particular age or ability range . |
| 21 | In most insects they appear externally as mere slits but in many Diptera they form intracranial tunnels . |
| 22 | But in many respects they are very different , and they come from different times : they are separated from one another by three-quarters of a century . |
| 23 | These pressures I have described , both internal and external , invited change in almost every aspect of the curriculum , but in many respects they were also conflicting . |
| 24 | Spelling mistakes do not usually stop your writing being understood , but in many contexts they carry undesirable connotations which you may wish to avoid ( " does n't read " , " illiterate " , " badly taught " , etc . ) . |
| 25 | They did find high incidence of eye diseases among local animals , but in each case they concluded that the most likely cause was infection from a common pathogen . |
| 26 | These , in themselves , do not do much harm , but in unpainted ply they form little traps for moisture and bacteria and so lead to trouble . |
| 27 | At Chesterfield Inlet , northern Canada , in these conditions , Savile and Calder ( 1952 ) found willow shrubs ( Salix spp. ) and dwarf birch Betula glandulosa growing only 15 cm high on open ground ; in the shelter of boulders the willows grew to 1 m or more , but in exposed areas they became completely prostrate , with horizontal laterals close to the ground . |
| 28 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 29 | Will be passed on , but in this instance they all need to be shown how to work it , yes , mhm , so that concerned me a little bit , apparently because they were holding the mike right up to their mouth and it was distorting terribly what 's going on up there |
| 30 | But in this instance they highlight only one phase of the star 's action . |