Example sentences of "but [is] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the shortest par-three but is guarded by enough sand to build at least a four-bedroom castle . |
| 2 | Minor unevenness is inevitable , but is kept within acceptable limits by the skill of the calligrapher . |
| 3 | Some provide a protective barrier against the rain — your hair will still get wet , but is saved from damaging effects of pollutants . |
| 4 | One difference is that the fundic gland mucosa is often normal in patients with duodenal ulcer , but is affected by atrophic gastritis in those with gastric ulcer , especially high lying gastric ulcer . |
| 5 | This first object is therefore not a whole , coherent form , but is split between two forces which the infant tends to see as uncomplicated ideals : one wholly good object and one wholly bad object . |
| 6 | This is a problem whether the transsexual is operated on or not , but is seen in greater relief if he is not . |
| 7 | It is essentially a sales tax levied at a percentage of the final price of the product ( 17.5 per cent from 1991 ) , but is collected at each stage in the production process . |
| 8 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 9 | The Government is to press ahead with its £23 billion roads programme , but is looking for more help from the public sector . |
| 10 | The church is not , in this world , the perfect body of Christ , but is composed of sinful members under grace . |
| 11 | We offer a decent finance system that can sustain the functions that we give to local government , and a structure that is not piecemeal , but is based on identifiable communities — that is geared not to numbers alone , but to the ability to provide a decent level of service . |
| 12 | Yet even here deference for old age is not universal or unconditional but is based upon personal achievements or the special knowledge and skills that the individual can offer . |
| 13 | Barbados , in contrast , offers a straightforward haven structure but is favoured by Canadian investors income arising in Barbados is not caught by Canada 's equivalent of the Controlled Foreign Company ( CFC ) legislation . |
| 14 | Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge . |
| 15 | First of all , it is assumed that in any mode of production where surplus value is not returned to the producers but is taken by other members of society , some justification of this distribution of wealth is required . |
| 16 | In adult epithelia — for example , intestinal epithelium — it is present on the lateral cell surfaces but is concentrated in intercellular junctions known as the zonulae adherentes , which ring the cells in the apicolateral region . |
| 17 | Fresco also has a model view controller — an idea borrowed from the object-oriented SmallTalk language which does n't occur in XT intrinsics but is found in other technologies like the Andrew toolkit . |
| 18 | One group of the coins of the Roman Emperor Valentinian was minted at Siscia , in modern Yugoslavia , but is found in large numbers in Britain . |
| 19 | It is possible that the tyrosine phosphorylation caused by TAGH is not autophosphorylation of the receptor — that is , by activation of the receptors own tyrosine kinase , but is induced by other tyrosine kinases . |
| 20 | Mr Beavers , 37 , a married man with two children , won a bravery award for the rescue but is suffering from viral fatigue syndrome which strikes at the nervous system and brain . |
| 21 | It is probably not confined to black speakers alone , but is spoken to varying degrees by young white people . |
| 22 | It is important to understand that this ‘ code-switching ’ behaviour does not indicate an inability to keep the two varieties apart , but is used for stylistic effect , and is part of the complex linguistic repertoire of many bilingual communities all over the world . |
| 23 | A shirt originally cost £5 but is reduced to half price . |
| 24 | It foreshadows the work of Donatello or Verrocchio , but is decorated with minute details of nature so beloved by the ‘ International Gothic ’ . |
| 25 | Takes precedence at carcasses over Egyptian Vulture but is dominated by Black Vulture . |
| 26 | The process of making amends to others is in Step 9 and is not normally covered within a residential treatment centre but is left for later work with the support of the Anonymous Fellowship and guidance of a sponsor . |