Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 2 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 3 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 4 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 5 | The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents . |
| 6 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Kathleen Ethrington , 89 , had lived an active life at her home in Eastbourne Road , Darlington , but in recent months her health failed and she was obliged to move into hospital and then to the Wilton House nursing home . |
| 17 | The Jet project is formally er continuing until the end of 1992 but in recent months we 've had some very great successes in Jet , the work we 've done is of very high quality and , and certainly world leading , and we can see the way ahead to building an experimental reactor after Jet but there are some very important experiments that need to be done before then . |
| 18 | This section is mainly concerned with the initial stages of rising capital for Eurotunnel but in recent months there have been growing doubts about the financial viability of the project . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 21 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 22 | But in actual fact I think that for preliminary erm instruction I 'm , I would be better . |
| 23 | you know you just still bewildered because you do n't understand , I mean like I go to this night class and apparently I , I learn from it , but in actual fact I do n't , I come out I get eight out of ten , nine out of ten , or ten out of ten and I have n't got a clue what it 's about |
| 24 | This last might seem to be an asset if you are trying to lose weight , but in actual fact it merely acts as a mask to the body 's natural craving for food . |
| 25 | money in but in actual fact it 's , it 's going out faster than it 's coming in . |
| 26 | It 's called a quality system standard but in actual fact it 's a code of practice . |
| 27 | but in actual fact it , it was only really The Yorkshire House did anything direct |
| 28 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 29 | There was her job and her real liking for it , but in actual fact she never quite relaxed , never let her guard down . |
| 30 | It seeks the origins of the present not in the past which is temporally distant , but in external contacts which are spatially remote . |