Example sentences of "but [adv] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | This , incidentally , causes some warm regard in Auckland , but less in other parts of the country where rugby buffs asked why they should be presented with telecasts of club matches from those willy-woofers in the north each week while their own club games did not gain equal exposure . |
2 | Then you could blend all these different backings together by choosing the same frame for them all , but perhaps in different sizes or shapes . |
3 | All these qualities provided by the academic course are valued by the gate-keepers of the foreign language-teaching profession — PGCE tutors , advisers to L.E.A.s headteachers — but especially in recent times the degree of spoken language fluency is stressed . |
4 | Stable Fe(II)-oxygen complexes have been claimed but only in non-aqueous solvents like benzene or pyridine and only at sub-zero temperatures ( haemoglobin works most efficiently at body temperatures and in an aqueous environment ) . |
5 | But only in certain areas of historical linguistic research is it appropriate to use standardization and ‘ the standard language ’ as our main reference point and focus of interest , and sound-change is not one of these areas . |
6 | In order to avoid this obviously ridiculous result , the German scientist Max Planck suggested in 1900 that light , X rays , and other waves could not be emitted at an arbitrary rate , but only in certain packets that he called quanta . |
7 | In such cases , but only in such cases , the child 's decision should not be allowed to determine the matter . |
8 | She would often pick up finger foods and eat them , but only in small quantities , and developed a preference for lumps of butter which she would eat in her fingers . |
9 | For Linnaeus , in contrast , each species had its own essential characteristics — its essence ; individual members of a species may differ , but only in non-essential ways . |
10 | The military regimes in power have never been averse to arresting leaders of the political opposition , but only in recent years has this become a systematic practice . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Some Marxists , among them Rosa Luxemburg and the Austro-Marxists , were early critics of the Soviet dictatorship , but only in recent years was there a widespread and fundamental questioning of the whole idea of dictatorship , and a revaluation of peaceful , democratic forms of political change , especially by those intellectuals and political leaders associated with the Eurocommunist movement . |
13 | There were no relevant standing rules governing applications for declarations and injunctions before the enactment of rule 3(7) because before then these remedies could not be applied for under Order 53 , but only in private actions . |
14 | In both cases the inspector issues a reasoned report , but only in transferred cases will he give the decision ; in non-transferred cases , he gives a recommendation which the Secretary is free to accept or turn down . |
15 | Interviewers invariably had a list of questions in front of them , but only in exceptional circumstances were these made known in advance to the interviewee , and they were never rigidly adhered to . |
16 | People were changed — as Piatakov was dismissed , or the Ukrainian section purged — or checked , but only in extreme circumstances . |
17 | One of the most recent , from Sweden , revealed that statistically , pups born in the winter in that country are more likely to develop hip dysplasia than pups born in the summer … but only in some breeds , not in others . |
18 | Reduce calorie intake to 850 if you must , but ONLY in these circumstances : |
19 | The sardonic arrogance and irresistible irony that flavoured ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ was still there , but only in fleeting moments . |
20 | Non-consultation may be justified on one or more of these grounds , but only in unusual circumstances . |
21 | It is clear from Part II of Schedule 12 , that the relevant maladministration , and hence administration , is not the conduct of the building societies ' business as a whole but only in those spheres of their activity falling within the prescribed matters of complaint . |
22 | The size was also important , but only in those patients who had single tumours at presentation . |
23 | In 1987 county courts issued 160,000 warrants of execution but only in 2,882 cases were goods actually seized and sold . |
24 | Since then , the hierarchy has met more or less three times per year , but usually in secret sessions . |
25 | But self-evidently in some instances such a jurisdiction , or the exercise of such a jurisdiction , would be truly extraordinary . |
26 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
27 | It was produced not only on large British-owned estates , but also in small gardens owned by the indigenous inhabitants , the Kandyan Sinhalese . |
28 | Once they were in place , not only could peasants buy ( rather than just occupy ) their dwelling-places , but also in certain circumstances they could " acquire in full ownership " the land which the charters assigned them . |
29 | From 1909 , when Cubism emerged as a fully mature idiom , through until the months immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1914 , it was to be not only very self-contained as a movement , but also in certain respects curiously unaccentuated . |
30 | Yet too rigorous a pursuit of that objective might result not only in failure but also in net losses to the United States . |