Example sentences of "but it [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements , and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation . |
| 2 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 3 | That is not to say that Parliament does not have a significant influence on the pattern of public expenditure , but it is exercised in various indirect ways at the formative stage of determining the pattern of public expenditure , and not through variations in the government 's proposals once they have been laid before the House . |
| 4 | But it is exposed above all in a letter of Alcuin ( 796 ) criticizing the whole policy . |
| 5 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 6 | , America ) is true in the start state but it is contradicted in some later states . |
| 7 | The style and feeling of the poem is exalted , but it is written with perfect lucidity , and a firm sense of the tradition of Christian conversion . |
| 8 | The first part describes the plain of the Temple , but it is written in strange tribal symbols , which you will have to decode . |
| 9 | Unlike the House of Lords it is elected , but it is elected by local councillors , an overwhelming majority of them from small country ‘ communes ’ . |
| 10 | The Court adjourned the matter until Thursday , ‘ but it is hoped by both parties that by then the current uncertainty and speculation concerning the future of Manchester will have been resolved ’ . |
| 11 | It may be a one-woman play but it is peopled by many other characters in Shirley 's life , from the stickin-the-mud husband to the snooty neighbour . |
| 12 | Electronics has been the fastest growing sector of the Scottish economy in recent years , but it is dominated by externally-controlled multi-nationals . |
| 13 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |
| 14 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |
| 15 | The habit is best known in tits , particularly great tits ( Parus major ) and blue tits ( P. caeruleus ) ; but it is found in other species too . |
| 16 | A directive is addressed to member states within the EC but it is left to each individual government to decide whether or not to implement the directive . |
| 17 | About sixty miles from Johannesburg and the same distance from the provincial capital , Pretoria , Rustenburg 's prosperity was based on mining , especially for platinum , but it is surrounded by good farming land in a warm , beautiful valley . |
| 18 | But it is torn by deeper internal divisions than those warring along ethnic or religious lines . |
| 19 | There is no shading on the rock here , but it is used on two out of three tiny , marvellous cups from Athens ( figs. 113 , 114 ) made by a potter Sotades and painted by the ‘ Sotades Painter ’ who may well have been the same man . |
| 20 | There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky . |
| 21 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 22 | But it 's fitted with modern parts to cope with changing traffic conditions . |
| 23 | It was almost the language of the papal chancery itself , but it was asked in such a manner that the pope could not concede . |
| 24 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 25 | Later , as capitalist work relations and practices were successfully implemented , rural labour organised a national union ; but it was built upon unsure foundations and , significantly , Essex witnessed its crushing defeat in 1874 at the hands of local farmers . |
| 26 | But it was built in 1751 as an inland lighthouse to guide travellers across what was then an empty open and desolate countryside . |
| 27 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 28 | The great Chertsey Road had been in construction for some while as it involved the building of three new bridges over the River Thames at Chiswick , Richmond and Twickenham , but it was completed in 1933 , and the entire achievement was formally opened by Edward , Prince of Wales , who drove along the route , cutting ribbons at each of the three bridges . |
| 29 | The special relationship was born of a common heritage , but it was nurtured by American and British self-interest as well . |
| 30 | There was still pleasure in it somewhere , but it was choked by exasperating routine : waiting for the staff to go , getting undressed , making up the bed , before the fleeting moment of physical relief was attained . |