Example sentences of "but in [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharks have huge oily livers , which increase buoyancy , but in general they are obliged to keep swimming to provide enough lift to avoid sinking ; though some species , in practice , are happy to rest on the bottom . |
| 2 | Giant tortoises in the past have existed on continents or quasi-continents ( both on South America and Madagascar ) but in general they are island animals . |
| 3 | Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them . |
| 4 | But in general they must be the same as those discussed for the replicators of Chapter 2 : longevity , fecundity , and copying-fidelity . |
| 5 | He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register . |
| 6 | Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 7 | But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out . |
| 8 | The lives of articulate people can be more interesting than fiction , but in general they would bore viewers more than the new vogue of delving into every aspect of sexual behaviour in discussion programmes . |
| 9 | Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs . |
| 10 | They were later to acquire the vague title of ‘ Nepmen ’ , but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon , and even by the end of NEP it was not possible , despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts , to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole . |
| 11 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |
| 12 | The People 's Party and the Democrats had between them polled over 5,500,000 votes in 1928 , but in 1932 they polled less than a million . |
| 13 | We do accuse the Liberal Democrats of jumping on the bandwagon at a late stage , but in this they are running true to form and they are confusing the issue by doing their own irrelevant thing . |
| 14 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 15 | At first , they took a flat in Chelsea , opposite the Royal Hospital , but in 1969 they bought a beautiful nineteenth-century house in Paulton 's Square , originally built for army personnel . |
| 16 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 17 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 18 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 19 | Initially the two wings were linked by a tunnel , but in 1880 they were joined by a six-storey addition . |
| 20 | The company refused an offer of £925 in 1924 , but in 1928 they accepted £250 for the engine , boilers , steelwork , rope etc. as and where they lay . |