Example sentences of "but [adv] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goal of tolerance and mutual respect is not one , all-embracing religion , but rather unity in diversity . |
| 2 | Their one desire was to get out of this place ; but perhaps flight in the present circumstances might seem ungracious . |
| 3 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 4 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 5 | There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on . |
| 6 | Literacy , too , has the potential to generate logic and scepticism — but not literacy in general , only that form of it which developed in classical Greece . |
| 7 | The Victorians understood ‘ The environment ’ to mean the background to human activity , in particular , industrial activity — a subject of concern to public health inspectors and philanthropists , but not society in general . |
| 8 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |
| 9 | So he said erm , well in that case , he said erm , you were walking together but not arm in arm ? |
| 10 | Problems would also be experienced if the authorities sought to control the narrow monetary base : namely , banks ' balances with the Bank of England ( but not cash in tills ) . |
| 11 | There may be an alveolar closure immediately preceding and overlapping with a velar closure ; there may be simultaneous alveolar and velar closure , or a velar closure followed by slight contact but not closure in the alveolar region . |
| 12 | Employment opportunities include not only work with the traditional large-scale centralized business system but also involvement in database systems , distributed systems and small business systems . |
| 13 | He acts redemptively with regard to culture , which includes judgment on some elements , but also affirmation in other areas , and a transformation of the whole . |
| 14 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 15 | But now interest in cold fusion was beginning to grow and experiments began in 1982 at Los Alamos New Mexico . |
| 16 | But why school in France ? |
| 17 | But why record in mono ? |
| 18 | Innuendo — but doubtless truth in that . |