Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun pl] [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 | It seeks the origins of the present not in the past which is temporally distant , but in external contacts which are spatially remote . |
| 21 | In tropical countries the importance of maintaining the cold chain is recognised , but in temperate countries it has been given little attention until recently . |
| 22 | It 's impossible to say if this element affected the Asian research scientist 's vote but in General Elections it is the issues , usually , which dominate . |
| 23 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 24 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 25 | Facts are events which are both authentic and significant ; in most cases we trust judges and juries , or less formal bodies , to determine them , but in complex cases it requires judgement and is by no means obvious . |
| 26 | Now , there are good reasons why we might want to do that , but in economic terms you 'll reduce the net welfare of the economy , or the world simply because you 're diverting resources away from efficient modes of production into inefficient modes of production . |
| 27 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 28 | But in two matters which concern primarily what we should consider the civil rights of everyone , the Church Courts long retained their jurisdiction : the disposition of the goods of the dead , and questions of marriage and divorce . |
| 29 | But in such circumstances they are all we have . |
| 30 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |