Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These things have always been expensive but now the cost is terrifying .
2 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 .
3 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 ?
4 Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed .
5 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 .
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