Example sentences of "but in [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the year , for defence against the Scots , convocation granted a tenth , but in 1298 it refused a possible second instalment on the ground that the Scottish threat had passed . |
| 2 | Much remains unknown about viral persistence but in general it results from stalemate in the battle between the virus and the body . |
| 3 | The underlying reasons for this will be considered more fully below but in general it seems clear that large , volume production industries were characterised by low throughput per worker because of over-manning and insufficient intensity of capital use [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1971 , 1976a ] . |
| 4 | But in general it was good for mankind to look outward to the stars . |
| 5 | But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire . |
| 6 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 7 | There is , of course , much argument about what is ‘ normal ’ , but in general it should mean that every adult person lives in a home of his or her own or with chosen friends or family members , that he or she has daily purposeful occupation , whether in paid employment or not , and that the person has social contacts and interpersonal relationships which are emotionally satisfying . |
| 8 | In some areas the agency model holds good ( for example , county councils serve as agents of the Department of Transport in constructing motorways and trunk roads ) but in general it conveys an exaggerated picture of central domination , particularly as there is a great deal of evidence of continued local discretion in service provision . |
| 9 | All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly . |
| 10 | Often it will be completely identical , but in general it will tend to end with finality and with an added touch of interest ( e.g. quicker movement , reaching a greater height , using larger leaps , etc . ) . |
| 11 | But in general it just means that we 've arrived , we 've discovered that nobody 's trapped , and we go away . |
| 12 | But in 1838 it was Malthus 's theodicy of ancient empires , not his political economy of the modern state that bore decisively on Darwin 's biogeography and ecology ( Bowler , 1976 ) . |
| 13 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 14 | But in 5 it is at least canonical . |
| 15 | It set up a succession of bodies to deal with the problem , but in 1922 it actually cut back expenditure , already insufficient , in this sphere . |
| 16 | Administratively the unit was originally part of the direct responsibility of the Assistant Director , Scotland but in 1974 it was transferred to the Continental Shelf and Geophysical Division of IGS . |
| 17 | Gamma Cassiopeiæ in the W-shaped northern constellation of Cassiopeia is usually about magnitude 2.2 , but in 1936 it flared up to 1.6 before fading back to below its normal brightness and then making a slow recovery . |
| 18 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 19 | This rose to 50% in the mid 1980s , but in 1991 it shot up to 55% . |
| 20 | According to the former directors , the company increased its network of offices but in 1991 it was hit by ‘ the ravages ’ of the recession . |
| 21 | But in 1980 it would be only one person in every … ( how many ) ? |
| 22 | Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join . |
| 23 | It was made an oblast of the Russian Federation and repopulated largely by Russians , but in 1954 it was ceded to the Ukraine . |
| 24 | But in 1937 it switched to Kirov , in honour of a local party commissar ( it transpired he was assassinated by Stalin , who thought him too popular ) . |
| 25 | On average workers ' pay in Belorussia had dropped by 1922 to 73.5 per cent of the 1913 level , but in 1923 it was to rise to 112.5 per cent . |
| 26 | It disappeared for centuries but in 1725 it was rediscovered in Ballinabeck graveyard in the parish of Scarva and is now in the National Museum in Dublin . |
| 27 | In 1980 unemployment was 3.8 per cent , but in 1981 it rose to 5.5 per cent and in 1983 was 9.2 per cent . |
| 28 | The rough is only about six inches high , but in 1961 it was three or four feet of thick , willowy scrub . |
| 29 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 30 | The feast spread over four days for a number of years , but in 1987 it began with an open-air service on Feast Sunday at which the Bishop of Whitby gave the address . |