Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whipped Cream are Scandinavian but even the odd accent does n't drag this version far enough from the original to make it an interpretation rather than a facsimile . |
| 2 | The following four German folktales relating to this theme , as collected by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century , are typical but only a fraction of the many variants known . |
| 3 | So again we do need to practise coordination it needs to have lots of practice , it is of course frequently affected by certain types of illnesses er and , and again that may be inevitable but again the more past experience you 've acquired and the more , the greater your ability to fight back , even though you 're fighting a losing battle if it 's an illness , can you see it 's going to delay the difficult bit the difficult part longer , you 're going to be able to cope . |
| 4 | These things have always been expensive but now the cost is terrifying . |
| 5 | Where the damage is insidious and not discovered until later , eg industrial diseases , the provisions of s14 of the Limitation Act 1980 which define " knowledge " may delay the running of limitation even further , until the plaintiff knows not only that he is ill but also the likely cause . |
| 6 | Formally , B is A 's subordinate but informally a good part of the organisation centres upon B with little reference to A. |
| 7 | By doing so , I shall demonstrate a point which is paradoxical but all the more interesting for that . |
| 8 | First-hand experience is invaluable but only a limited amount of it can be arranged and you certainly ca n't have large numbers of trainees sitting at the back of the same class . |
| 9 | Information obtained retrospectively from case notes is unreliable but generally the correspondence to be found in case notes showed the clinician 's reason for referring a patient and gave reliable clues to the prediction of the result . |
| 10 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 11 | Despite this Jon Newsome 's lovely new wife thinks he 's wonderful but apparently the other players ' wives think she 's a bit of a bimbo . |
| 12 | The establishment is open but once a week at present and is then usually manned by a civilian worker . |
| 13 | But you see the thing is , that 's true but sometimes the way they deal with it , they deal with it say eight weeks , so which makes it what ? |
| 14 | Precisely how many were ejected in 1662 is unknown but possibly a third of the ministers became ‘ Nonconformists ’ or ‘ Dissenters ’ . |
| 15 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 16 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 17 | The term ‘ an efficient farm ’ has defied description from many authorities but from this survey it appeared that it was not a farm or a system or an enterprise that was efficient but rather the man who ran it . |