Example sentences of "but in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in higher education , we hope that students will not just beaver away , in however committed a fashion , at their chosen discipline or profession . |
| 2 | In Saigon , for example , the US Minister was urging that his country 's influence must be felt ‘ not only through the gravitational pull of our aid program but in actual participation in certain controls and in accelerating certain French concessions ’ . |
| 3 | The Carvin has a panel of MIDI controls , which sounds like a hi-tech feature not in keeping with Carvin 's ‘ keep it simple ’ philosophy , but in actual fact the MIDI side of the deal is pretty rudimentary . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | money in but in actual fact it 's , it 's going out faster than it 's coming in . |
| 7 | I mean maybe the money , a lot of , is it , is anything to do with the , not the staff costs , but in actual fact the C A D equipment we 've bought ? |
| 8 | But in actual fact I think that for preliminary erm instruction I 'm , I would be better . |
| 9 | Now modal tag is one for seeking agreement whereas an effective tag is one that shows concern to the addressee and according to this study , if you looked and the sheer number of tags , women did use more tags than men , but in actual fact women used a higher proportion of the effective tags than men did . |
| 10 | It 's called a quality system standard but in actual fact it 's a code of practice . |
| 11 | There was her job and her real liking for it , but in actual fact she never quite relaxed , never let her guard down . |
| 12 | Er but in actual fact , it 's like a major thing here , but he did very well . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | but in actual fact it , it was only really The Yorkshire House did anything direct |
| 15 | But in actual fact , although it 's something multiplied by something , it gives you the answer . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 18 | You know , hardly get a go-round in the in the Dictionary of Quotations but at least you got the person there which is right , but in actual fact , how I might have treated that and I might what might have grabbed me a little bit more would have been the story which I would be looking for , I 'd be looking for my journalist to turn that into and therefore you might as well try and do it for us , because journalists like , like count on your labour , as I |
| 19 | Now the other side of that was a plea which came from our switchboard supervisor , which I 'll come onto in a moment , where she said people will often think that of her telephonist , but in actual fact , it 's because they have n't got the right information from people at this end , so there is another side to that story . |
| 20 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 21 | In mature persons interaction is usually initiated by speech ; but in ordinary life , isolated speech interaction , as in a telephone conversation , is rare . |
| 22 | The name " phenomenological " betrays its origins in University departments , but in ordinary language this approach is usually referred to loosely as the multi-faith or world religions approach . |
| 23 | But the greater proportion of goods traffic was not carried in specials but in ordinary merchandise trains , made up of all kinds of vehicles containing an assortment of commodities , raw and manufactured . |
| 24 | But in Cinderella-like fashion , he almost did ! |
| 25 | Algeria is responsible for 70% of Africa 's gas production but in 1983 oil production at just over 40 million tonnes was double gas production . |
| 26 | The cars were initially unvestibuled , but in 1929 car 153 had its driving platforms enclosed ( see p. 102 ) and the last two , 51 and 177 , were built with vestibules . |
| 27 | Few , if any , effective interventions come without any risk of harm — but in preventive medicine the risk may be very small , whether it is a small risk of a serious adverse effect or a larger risk of a mild one . |
| 28 | People do sit down to discuss and pool ideas , but in mainstream broadcasting boundaries are more rigid between technical and conceptual areas and she misses the opportunity to use her technical skills : ‘ If you see a shot that you really like you ca n't just grab the camera and say , ‘ Oh , can I have a go . ’ |
| 29 | But in grazing country these larger fields were soon reduced to a number of smaller fields of round about ten acres apiece . |
| 30 | There may be circumstances where an integration of different programmes can reduce duplication and sharpen policy effectiveness , but in general co-ordination achieves very little — it is extremely difficult to put into practice . |