Example sentences of "but in [art] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats , not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too . |
| 2 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 3 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 4 | But in the Sixties we did n't feel that way . |
| 5 | Germi had begun his career directing serious , realistic features on postwar Italy , but in the sixties he changed to broad , satirical sex comedies , the best and most popular being Divorce Italian Style , which received three Oscar nominations . |
| 6 | But in the 1810s their studied simplicity must have made the post-Adam school of design then current in Edinburgh seem fussy and dated to a degree hard to appreciate now . |
| 7 | By the mid-century Freemasonry was strong in Austria and Bohemia , but in the 1780s its activities had come under close scrutiny from the new emperor , Joseph 11 , and the Austrian secret police . |
| 8 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |
| 9 | She had intended to take a bus , but in the dark everything looked unfamiliar and slightly forbidding . |
| 10 | In the short-term it might work as a morale-booster for players to see a fresh face , but in the long-term I do n't think anybody else could do any better than Howard . |
| 11 | but in the twenties I was better at the pictures or somewhere like that , which you could get for a few pence , but you 're not walking about or doing tiring thing . |
| 12 | This later led to more troubles than they could have expected , but in the 1630s they seemed to be effectively independent . |
| 13 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 14 | The family were to be closely associated with Gloucester in the 1470s , but in the 1460s they were Neville men , and Thomas and his brother William suffered forfeiture in 1470 for their support of Warwick and Clarence . |
| 15 | But in the mid-eighties it developed a line of kitchenware going completely over to this at Christmas . |
| 16 | They soon spread to a variety of habitats , but in the Palaeozoic they were conspicuously abundant in relatively shallow environments . |
| 17 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
| 18 | But in the main her mother had continued to live in her own world and her father in his , and she herself had been waging an inward war of words against the narrowness of her existence and with no hope of seeing a way out : she had given the final ‘ no ’ to Henry Stalwort and convinced Peter Chambers that it was useless him thinking she would change her mind . |
| 19 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 20 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 21 | But in the 1860s they were in full flower . |
| 22 | But , but in the fifties you were probably one of the only shops in Harlow that sold |
| 23 | As a civil lawyer he was much employed in diplomatic business , but in the 1320s he was twice appointed treasurer and spent his time in that office supervising and organizing the more efficient collection of taxes , fines and forfeitures . |
| 24 | Recently , there has been a moving together again , but in the 1930s there developed at the University of Chicago a tradition of social research that is now known as the ‘ Chicago School ’ . |
| 25 | Initially , Barlaston had been put to a series of uses by Wedgwood ( and had been leased to the Bank of England during the Second World War ) , but in the 1950s it developed dry rot and become an embarrassment to the company . |
| 26 | My father is naturally ebullient but in the 1950s my mother suffered from ‘ nerves ’ . |
| 27 | But in the 1980s we are in a new recession ; morale is getting low , and soon the government will seriously turn to the arts as a ‘ booster ’ . |
| 28 | Specialism never entirely disappeared , but in the 1980s there was a quite definite return to specialisation , especially in mental health and child care . |
| 29 | He admitted in the first of the series that providing serfs with land seemed to pose insuperable practical difficulties , but in the last he argued " that the acquisition of landed property on the part of the peasants can be accomplished durably and even quickly " . |