Example sentences of "but [pron] is [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 2 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 3 | Obviously many factors play a part , but there is over a twofold difference ( 179 v 364 per million ) between the worst and best served districts . |
| 4 | There is nothing authoritative about Greek , but there is about the New Testament which was written in Greek . |
| 5 | In practice , the LPA may offer advice to the chief constable on matters of policy , but he is under no legal obligation to accept it . |
| 6 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 7 | The palazzo itself will be dealt with later when the trip reaches its frontage , but it is worth a long look as you move past . |
| 8 | The walk around it is all on the road , but it is worth a quick circuit in the car . |
| 9 | The level of notional excess demand is the magnitude which is relevant to Walras 's Law , but it is of no operational significance either for firms or for households . |
| 10 | Porto Santo is not connected under the sea to Madeira but it is of a similar age — Miocene . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) The difficulty arises where there is some evidence but it is of a tenuous character , for example because of inherent weakness or vagueness or because it is inconsistent with other evidence . |
| 12 | So ‘ ideology ’ is important for Jessop et al. , but it is of a different form from that suggested by Hall . |
| 13 | Ralph Ellis , group managing director of the carpets firm , Stoddard Sekers International , said : ‘ We are confident that we are holding our share , but it is of a smaller cake . ’ |
| 14 | Laughter is permitted , but it is of the glutinous kind which tee hees over in-jokes . |
| 15 | in 1936 — but it is on the prosopographical works of his years of retirement that his scholarly reputation depends . |
| 16 | But it is at a high price . |
| 17 | It might make sense to the financial director faced with a demand which far outweighs supply ; after all , this recycling of other houses ' wines is perfectly legal , but it is at the same time deliberately hoodwinking the public . |
| 18 | That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago . |
| 19 | The monthly inflation rate has remained at four point one per cent , but it is below the German annual inflation rate for the first time since nineteen sixty-seven . |
| 20 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
| 21 | But it is as a superb teacher , over some forty years , that Fenton owes his prominence . |
| 22 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 23 | ( I realise this area is outside the AONB but it is within the conservation area . ) |
| 24 | The two-bedroom cottage needs refurbishment but it is in a superb location , in the middle of woodland owned by the National Trust and overlooking the River Yealm . |
| 25 | But it is in the new period of widely available physical reproduction of cultural artefacts , within already diversifying social relations , that asymmetries of a more complex kind than those of domination and subordination begin to appear . |
| 26 | But it is in the complex configuration of slopes , dips and valleys immediately behind the village that the greatest vines of Aÿ are found . |
| 27 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 28 | ‘ The caring may not be true caring , ’ Bloch explains , ‘ but it is in the right measure and it gets results . ’ |
| 29 | The shift of leadership to John Smith may seem temporarily convincing , but it is in the last analysis cosmetic . |