Example sentences of "but in [det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tower House will never be grand but in this it is timely . |
| 3 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 4 | But in this I have . |
| 5 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 6 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 7 | Special knowledge is important , though , as a characteristic of many trades , but in some it goes beyond mere ‘ know-how ’ or the tricks of that trade . |
| 8 | In one way it is more limited , in that it is restricted to rodents , but in another it is less limited because rodent incisors are less variable between rodent taxonomic groups than are the molars . |
| 9 | Lunch on the mountain is the norm in many areas , but in most it is consumed in cafeterias designed more for efficiency than atmosphere , and even these are not immune from crowding . |