Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 2 | These things have always been expensive but now the cost is terrifying . |
| 3 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 4 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 5 | The establishment is open but once a week at present and is then usually manned by a civilian worker . |
| 6 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
| 7 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 8 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 9 | He was eighteen but still a lad , awkward , like his arms and legs were longer than he could cope with . |
| 10 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |