Example sentences of "but [pos pn] [noun] can [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN FACT , Pop Judgement Day hit Manchester years ago , but its effects can still be felt here today . |
| 2 | The Nuclear Free Zone Treaty is open only to South Pacific Forum States , but its objectives can not be fully achieved without some commitments from third parties . |
| 3 | This is now the nearest railway to Bishop 's Castle and Clun , but its future can not be assumed . |
| 4 | The Scarman Report formed a part — and a vital one — of this process of political debate , but its role can not be understood in isolation . |
| 5 | A particular lexical unit , of course , expresses its semantic identity through such relations , but its essence can not be exhaustively characterised in terms of any determinate set of such relations . |
| 6 | But its reality can scarcely be doubted . |
| 7 | But their actions can only be explained by the infinitely complex interaction between general causes — economic , social , cultural and ideological — and their individual personalities , moulded by a particular experience of childhood and maturity . |
| 8 | Individual saints may testify to God 's supernatural provision , but their experience can not be universalised . |
| 9 | The red thing A is colour-similar — as distinct from shape-similar or size-similar , although it can be all of these to the red thing B. But their colour can not be defined in terms of their colour-similarity . |
| 10 | Successful borrowing and taxing were different sides of the same sound coin of reputation , but their relationship can best be understood if we look at the pattern and structure of each in turn . |
| 11 | But his motives can not be viewed in isolation from the contemporary situation . |
| 12 | But his motives can not be viewed in isolation from the contemporary situation . |
| 13 | His anti-Semitism may be a separate issue ( though many of course will deny even that ) ; but his Fascism can not be , since it represents a disastrously false judgement made in the course of following through a conviction not self-evidently false — about there being a connection between the health of letters and the health of the commonweal . |
| 14 | ‘ But our relationship can never be a permanent one . |