Example sentences of "but [det] [is] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say either that someone acts authoritatively or that someone is responsible for his actions may depend upon the possibility of ascribing mental states or capacities but neither is merely a shorthand way of ascribing them . |
| 2 | You pay , of course , but that 's rarely a problem for his clientele . |
| 3 | For instance , sometimes the Profitboss will disagree with a decision made by his boss ; but that 's rarely a reason to resign . |
| 4 | But that 's just a way of changing key . |
| 5 | That 's my teacher at school but that 's just a lady . |
| 6 | I was high on LSD probably , but that 's just a guess . ’ |
| 7 | It also sounds a bit like the late Joan Crawford — but that 's just a guess ! |
| 8 | ‘ There 's Cockfosters , sir , but that 's just a cage , too , and the school opposite Wandsworth Prison . |
| 9 | ‘ But that 's hardly a crime . ’ |
| 10 | yeah , no , but that 's still a paper though is n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , but that 's only a technicality . |
| 12 | But that 's only a story . |
| 13 | You see something advertised like ‘ The Four Seasons ’ : well , everyone knows the famous bit , but that 's only a quarter of it . |
| 14 | They have to keep a logbook but that 's only a check to make sure that nobody 's leaving a mess in the common areas and we only have it because we 've found that some residents can have problems because they 've become deskilled in certain things . |
| 15 | But that 's only a palliative . ’ |
| 16 | But that 's really a marketing thing , it is n't too scientific . ’ |
| 17 | I said , no , actually but that 's always a lie ! |
| 18 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 19 | At the simplest level , the forest around a village is being gently ‘ harvested ’ — there is a scheme for gathering seeds of shrubs and climbers , for export to the garden-centre pot-plant nurseries of the US , but that is just a start . |
| 20 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 21 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 22 | ‘ In another location I would probably have a full dining room every night , but that is only a part of what is important to me . |
| 23 | This can be seen throughout Formen in his struggles with the word ‘ property ’ , but that is only a beginning . |
| 24 | But that is only a reason for saying that the value is not really there in the world if we presuppose a scientistic view of reality for which it is of itself necessarily ‘ motivationally inert ’ and cognizable in a manner which has nothing essentially to do with being attracted or repelled by it . |
| 25 | The heads of the different divisions might feel that it should be so but that is only a claim of ego and emotion . |
| 26 | But that is only an expression of how the lioness is feeling within herself . |
| 27 | But that is perhaps a matter which is best looked at er over lunch . |
| 28 | It is just conceivable that the Inland Revenue , thicketed about with legislation and case law , might think these provisions of the Income Tax Acts had some concern for a transaction of that nature , but that is hardly a view which could be shared by one who got out and looked at the wood as a whole . |
| 29 | ‘ I usually say something about going for boldness and colour , but that is really a question of choosing artists by their style . ’ |
| 30 | But that is truly a narrative , including a series of songs that advance the action in definite stages before it collapses in the lover 's rejection by his ( married ) mistress . |