Example sentences of "[adj] but it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is not clear but it is believed to be related to surface characteristics such as defect chemistry . |
| 2 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 3 | The basic professional stand against censorship is sound but it is weakened by inaction when opportunities arise to be decisive and it is further weakened by elements of the profession which seek to censor , while often interpreting this as positive discrimination . |
| 4 | They were from the North of England , working-class , unemployed but it was thought only temporarily . |
| 5 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 6 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 7 | A number of different positions were taken there and nothing was clear-cut but it was paralleled by the story of Terry finding out that his wife , Sue 's baby is not ‘ his ’ . |
| 8 | No doubt this could be made more sophisticated but it was judged better to oblige the user to adjust the illumination . |
| 9 | There 's a half-moon but it 's obscured ninety per cent of the time by a lot of low , fast-moving cloud producing occasional freezing gusts of rain . |
| 10 | This can be useful but it is limited . |
| 11 | The interactivity does not in fact run very deep but it is pitched well to suit children 's interest levels and attention spans . |
| 12 | Full details were not available but it was reported that it would be a balanced budget despite a doubling of general government expenditure to R 24,000,000 million ( about US$16,500 million at the floating rate ) . |
| 13 | European funding can be lavish but it is tied to cooperation with public bodies . |
| 14 | The details of the talks were secret but it was thought that a UN discussion paper for reform of the army , a key FMLN demand , was on the agenda . |
| 15 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 16 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 17 | Adventure in Kingston 's stones is fast and active but it is handled with a light touch . |