Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have problems in the Labour Party but we ai n't that barmy . ’ |
| 2 | They needed two wickets in the final over but picked up only one as Hightown held out at 110–9 . |
| 3 | The small angle caused by pointing the camera downwards hardly causes any distortion in the final photograph but does avoid the dreaded fish reflection . |
| 4 | St Dunstan 's emerged from the play-offs to challenge the King 's School in the final contest but had to be satisfied with the runners-up spot . |
| 5 | This suggests an important point which will be taken up in detail in the final chapter but which should be mentioned here . |
| 6 | The Ulster veterans also retained their title beating Leinster 5–2 in the final match but the U-21 squad lost 6–0 to Leinster and finished in second place . |
| 7 | Sportsmanship might be an old-fashioned concept to many in the modern game but it has to be protected . |
| 8 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 9 | A particularly interesting pair of variables to which to apply this is provided by the energy E and the time t : unc At first sight this is a puzzling relation , because time is not quite an observable property of a system in the normal sense but is rather a parameter marking when an observation is made . |
| 10 | Under the project , the banks lend money in the normal way but the Department of Industry agrees to refund 80 per cent of it if the firm goes bust . |
| 11 | The allied general counts as a character in the normal way but he does not benefit from any of the special rules for generals . |
| 12 | Under a voidable contract ownership passes to B in the normal way but will pass back to A if and when the contract is later avoided . |
| 13 | The issue system will issue and discharge books and items in the normal way but can also be used to search for information and to produce overdues . |
| 14 | For some branches it may not be possible to offer vacancies in the immediate future but the enquiry process will include advice about suitable Navy career options and timescales . |
| 15 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 16 | The mansard roof and dormer windows were added in the nineteenth century but the predominant style of the château interior was Louis XV rococo , with traditional Picardian emphasis and additions . |
| 17 | It is a fortified monastery , restored in the nineteenth century but still containing a beautiful Romanesque nave ( see p. 11 ) and taller Gothic choir . |
| 18 | It was significant in the nineteenth century but declined rapidly in the twentieth , as class became more important . |
| 19 | The Highlands and Islands Integrated Development Programme in the UK has its equivalent in the Lozere department but no IDP exists in the Auvergne and the implications for nature conservation of these programmes would have to be the subject of a specific study when their impact is clearer . |
| 20 | More interestingly , however , this switch somehow indexes a culture for which this goal stands as an ideal : building your own place is a plausible goal in the Jamaican culture but very unusual in Britain , especially for a black person . |
| 21 | For example , compare the standard molar enthalpy for the following reaction with that for the reaction represented by equation ( b ) above : In reaction ( b ) above the water formed in the liquid state but in reaction ( c ) it is a gas ( steam ) . |
| 22 | Servette qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the Swiss League but last November it looked like they would be in the Champions ' Cup . |
| 23 | I er I du n no I think you maybe do in the fifth year but I doubt it , but I mean it 's so stupid though we got it opposite our school I mean it 's not as if it would be that difficult for the people in our school to pay for us . |
| 24 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 25 | Erm , it 's very much shorter because as we were saying earlier on the the short take off and landing capability , erm with er I 'd prefer to talk about distances perhaps in the closed session but the er the simple answer is very much . |
| 26 | On the Soviet side , the main figure is a young economist , Grigori Yavlinsky , who has no formal job in the Soviet government but was the originator of the ‘ Shatalin plan ’ for radical economic change . |
| 27 | Letters : WLW writes : The Czech reformers in their moment of victory were particularly shaken by the death of Andrei Sakharov , the pre-eminent champion of civil rights not only in the Soviet Union but in its sphere of influence as well . |
| 28 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 29 | OF the many delightful quotations in Peter Robertson 's book , the one I like best tells us that ‘ in creating the Universe God perversely located all the most interesting regions of our galaxy in the southern hemisphere but all the astronomers in the north ’ . |
| 30 | Readers of this paper will need no reminding of the way in which the important recommendations of the Warnock committee were encapsulated in the 1981 Act but accompanied by a clear negative statement : ‘ There will be no additional funds ’ . |