Example sentences of "but in [adj] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much remains unknown about viral persistence but in general it results from stalemate in the battle between the virus and the body . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Firbank had no close emotional attachments , save with his mother ; but in 1919 he seems to have become infatuated with the Hon. Evan Morgan , who rebuffed him by refusing the dedication of his only play , The Princess Zoubaroff , days before its publication in 1920 . |
| 6 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 7 | Special knowledge is important , though , as a characteristic of many trades , but in some it goes beyond mere ‘ know-how ’ or the tricks of that trade . |
| 8 | But in particular she recalls the time she first saw Kylie . |