Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 2 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 3 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 4 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 5 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 6 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 7 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 8 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 9 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 10 | The Citroen BX has long been Britain 's most popular diesel-engined car but in recent months it has been overtaken by another model from the same French stable the ZX . |
| 11 | In tropical countries the importance of maintaining the cold chain is recognised , but in temperate countries it has been given little attention until recently . |
| 12 | It 's impossible to say if this element affected the Asian research scientist 's vote but in General Elections it is the issues , usually , which dominate . |
| 13 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 14 | Facts are events which are both authentic and significant ; in most cases we trust judges and juries , or less formal bodies , to determine them , but in complex cases it requires judgement and is by no means obvious . |
| 15 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 16 | That worked , temporarily at least , with the replacement of the poll tax , but in other areas it failed . |
| 17 | In some cases this is true , but in other cases it is not . |
| 18 | A depressive reaction of psychotic proportion frequently occurs alone but in other cases it may be replaced by a state of mania which may also , though more rarely , be found without swings into depression . |
| 19 | But in other cases it is a result of historical accidents in the development of the disciplines , and if the study of society were to be initiated all over again it would surely be divided rather differently . |
| 20 | In herbivores it is the larvated egg which is passed out in the faeces but in other animals it is the hatched L1 . |
| 21 | In Newport it was the Licensing Act of 1921 that brought about this decision , but in other places it was India , or Ireland , or public spending . |
| 22 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 23 | The political influence of the countryside remains disproportionately strong , but in other respects it is now the urban centres which dominate the economic , social and cultural life of Japan . |
| 24 | It was a bit of a disaster in some respects , but in other respects it was a lively vibrant conference . |
| 25 | In the past , that wholeness was to be found in the college or the institution and its organic community , but in modern times it tends to be located in the subject-department , which becomes in Burke 's phrase the ‘ little platoon ’ which provides the student with his or her identity , base and purpose ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 26 | In older systems , this will usually be a gravity-fed circuit separate from the pumped central heating circuit , but in modern systems it will be a pumped circuit which operates together with the central heating . |
| 27 | That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package . |
| 28 | New and expanded towns experienced the highest rates of population growth in the 1950s and 1960s , but in absolute terms it was the medium-sized cities , like Bristol , Leicester , and Southampton , which made the biggest contribution to overall population increase . |
| 29 | Once again , post-war performance was significantly above the level for the interwar years , but in international terms it was substantially below par . |
| 30 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |