Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 2 | A long , lean man with an ascetic face , he looked the celibate monk he had always been , but in private conversation he was unpompous , outgoing , witty . |
| 3 | But in remote Kazakhstan he 's finally spotted the last one on his list . |
| 4 | Until 1892 Townsend 's practice was made up of minor domestic and ecclesiastical work , but in that year he won the competition for the design of the Bishopsgate Institute , the first of the three outstanding public buildings that were to make his reputation . |
| 5 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 6 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
| 7 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 8 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
| 9 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 10 | I managed to keep boys away from him , but in one alley he disappeared . |
| 11 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 12 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |
| 13 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 14 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
| 15 | This artist is less interested in ornament than Euphronios , often content with borders in black silhouette rather than red-figure ; but in other respects he takes on from him and goes further . |
| 16 | Merceron was not reappointed as a justice of the peace , but in other respects he was as much in control ( either directly or through his brother-in-law , who became vestry clerk ) as he had been before 1809 . |
| 17 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 18 | He is likely to be very bright and to find learning easy but in many cases he will be coached and encouraged by a parent ( usually the father ) in that one direction so that he becomes a prodigy or a ‘ genius ’ at mathematics . |
| 19 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 20 | It was not necessary , he could have rung once he had arrived , but in this way he committed himself . |
| 21 | But in this return he sometimes found something as horribly inane as the tedium of the city clerk 's world . |
| 22 | Eisenhower conceded that the West was suffering from " the tyrannies of the weak " , but in this instance he did not question the legality of the act of nationalization . |
| 23 | As in scene five , Anderson risks a loss of positive face , but in this instance he is not under an obligation to take a turn . |
| 24 | He was famous for picking sportsmen young and preparing them for success ; but in this case he had picked an apparent no-hoper like Harley , who immediately confirmed his judgement by notching up three tournament victories . |
| 25 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 26 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 27 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 28 | The stock editor generally concentrated on stock revision and supervision of withdrawals , but in some authorities he or she also played a large part in the selection of new books . |
| 29 | But in some respects he seems to be left over from a previous age . |
| 30 | Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall . |