Example sentences of "but [pers pn] are [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we are mistaken if this leads us to suppose that there is any question of truth or falsehood here in the sense of conformity to fact . |
| 2 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 3 | Not all the impulses of the repressed find simple expression in dreams , but they are filtered and censored , even during sleep . |
| 4 | So we must accept that the creatures we will encounter in the Scottish hills are not the stuff of big game hunters ' after-dinner bragging , but they are varied and thrilling in their discovery nonetheless . |
| 5 | The Rock transformed the motifs of city and savage found in Sweeney Agonistes , but they are preserved because essential to Eliot 's thought . |