Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s . |
| 2 | The very worst time to take out a bond is when rates are low but then rise dramatically and unexpectedly , as they did at the end of the 1980s |
| 3 | Colleagues , I have members in my branches who are unemployed but still pay full contributions not because they have to cos they want to , |
| 4 | The lack of good results is here explained by faulty equipment ( an explanation also offered to me by other students ) ; however , students gain higher marks for lab work if the results are ‘ correct ’ than if they are wrong but adequately accounted for : |
| 5 | Notice now that the white one the two white ones are superimposed but now look the two reds and the two blues are now not superimposed any longer . |
| 6 | Lady Eleanor would have been comfortable but securely kept , and I would have been happy . ’ |
| 7 | Comparisons are obvious but well deserved . |
| 8 | Its berries are brownish-red but usually do n't appear until the tree is well and truly mature — hence , I suppose , the confusion about its gender . |
| 9 | If some continuously erupting , small-volume systems have short residence times , while other intermittent , large-volume systems are long-lived but continuously fed , this suggests that factors other than magma supply control eruptions . |
| 10 | Well the figures show that assessments of the over provision are incorrect but even had they been correct if circumstances were an over provision comes about not because of an increase in our provision of services , but because of expansion in the private sector . |
| 11 | Inflammatory fibroid polyps are uncommon but well documented as solitary polyps occurring typically in the stomach or ileum . |
| 12 | For example , the insulin or epidermal growth factor receptors retain surface expression of oligosaccharides are present but incompletely processed . |
| 13 | Those which are well but just look lost … are best left where they are to take their chances |
| 14 | From a personal point of view , the best interviews are the ones which become conversations , discussions which proceed on an equal basis , that are informal but still retain some kind of shape . |
| 15 | She was young-old : a brittle blonde whose face had probably been beautiful but now sagged just a bit , was creased just a bit , and had grown a lip of wattle behind the chin . |
| 16 | First , those who have a political interest to pursue will not in fact always do so , for example consumers , who are numerous but widely distributed , generally have never organized themselves as effectively or as efficiently as producers , who are much fewer in number but already have a business organization able to be adapted for political purposes . |
| 17 | Some of the international hotels are enormous but still manage to escape a concrete jungle image with the help of the island 's natural beauty , exotic plants and flowers and friendly , courteous staff . |
| 18 | And remembering it now , with the child of that night growing towards a life of its own in my body , I was appalled again by the memory of a frustration worse than any self-denial , which ended at dawn with us lying apart from each other , both pretending to be asleep but both staring with dry wide-awake eyes into a bottomless pit of dismay . |
| 19 | There are further curbs on union activity to think up , a pastime that used to be popular but now looks merely gratuitous . |
| 20 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
| 21 | Credit unions , which would be cheaper but still allow weekly payments , are ruled out for the great majority — simply because there is n't yet one they could join . |
| 22 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 23 | She said that until England returned to the Old Faith , her people would never be happy but always divided against themselves , always backbiting and fighting with one another . |
| 24 | If the child plays with it and makes a mess , the parent should not be concerned but just clear up the mess afterwards . |
| 25 | Now one of the criticisms that I 've had er from the people who prefer to be nameless but always come to me afterwards and say oh it was a waste of time coming . |
| 26 | Instead of the single , level playing-field for financial services that the Community talks of , the field will indeed be single but still sloping from one end to the other . |
| 27 | She began to understand that her working clothes had not just to be fashionable but also to cope with the vagaries of walkabouts , the intrusion of photographers and her ever-present enemy , the wind . |
| 28 | The IFM says an angling test should at first be voluntary but perhaps become compulsory in the future with anglers losing their licence for breaking a code of practice . |
| 29 | Packed lunches are available but please give prior notice . |
| 30 | Vegetarian meals are available but please order in advance . |