Example sentences of "but [adv] [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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1 | The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it . |
2 | But eventually Aristotelian physics was falsified in a number of ways . |
3 | If they suggest that the legal sanctions against the abuse of power by company controllers are not wholly adequate , it must be remembered that it is but rarely that power is abused . |
4 | However , a light but bitterly cold breeze was a strong reminder of the horrors which had occurred to previous travellers , in far worse conditions . |
5 | But presumably that balance is n't something that 's encouraged either by the discipline of the job , or by a culture that assumes that men do n't have to take on responsibility for those things because women do . |
6 | ( In 1940 there were only four entries so it was cancelled ) , but presumably this arrangement was unsatisfactory for in 1952 John Chalcraft bought it from the Club for £15 . |
7 | HCIMA expressed doubts at the consultative stage about the lack of hotel and catering GNVQs , but little further information is yet available . |
8 | The concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 was significantly higher in malignant ascites ( 736 ( 213–165 ) ng/ml ) than in alcoholic ascites ( 16 ( <2–43 ) ng/ml , p<0.05 ) , and a similar but less pronounced pattern was found for plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 ( 43 ( <6- 140 ) ng ml in malignant ascites v <6 ( <6–28 ) ng/ ml in alcoholic ascites , p<0.05 ) . |
9 | The other important but less visible change is that those who operate the robots and computers are part-time women workers . |
10 | The traditional music of the villages continued much as before , but less Zambian music was produced in the towns , where young musicians tended more and more to copy the popular music of Britain , the United States and Zaire . |
11 | A similar but less marked pattern is to be found in other cases of sexual violence . |
12 | Unfortunately no one has yet written The Gro-Bag Gardener , but perhaps that theme is too down-market . |
13 | But perhaps this interpretation is rather too literal . |
14 | But perhaps this shift is not so distinct : for the interaction of power and resistance , which mimes the mutual contamination and transmutation of Freud 's death-drive and pleasure principle , also operates is a simulacrum of the ungraspable , vacillating manoeuvres of Foucault 's formulations of history . |
15 | In conclusion , this study shows that the rotary litotrite achieves stone emulsification with clearance of stones from the gall bladder , but much further work is necessary to overcome the complications found in the study before a true assessment of the technique can be made . |
16 | A similar but apparently stronger effect is seen in children hospitalised with measles , with a reduction of 66% , although this was not significantly different from the 30% seen in developing country community settings . |
17 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |
18 | For example , the program did not specify that in the year 1815 a battle would be fought near Waterloo and that the French would be defeated , but only that man is aggressive by nature , that he is condemned to wage war and that technical progress would make war more and more terrible . |
19 | In the autumn of 1915 the Government had assumed powers to requisition at fixed prices all cereal products ; in 1916 these powers were extended to sugar , milk and eggs , but only limited use was made of them . |
20 | But only one door was open and everyone was pushing and shoving to get through . |
21 | The searchers went immediately to investigate , but only one lamp was hanging there . |
22 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has published a strategy for repairing war damage in Croatia but only one project is nearing approval and there are no environmental projects as yet . |
23 | The passage was all about washing clothes , but only one group was told this in advance . |
24 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
25 | But already one thing was clear : the heat could not simply be due to deuterium dd fusion as this process should produce neutrons at a rate a billion times larger than they were recording . |
26 | But anyway that order is through so |
27 | But tonight Acoustic Shoe are star guests in their own right . |
28 | Just so long as the two of them were involved professionally , she was at ease with him , but once that link was severed , she could only feel antagonism towards him . |
29 | In general patients with chronic angina have diffuse coronary disease , with few blocked vessels , whereas the myocardial infarction group tend to present with at least one blocked vessel , but once that thrombus is cleared their resultant coronary disease is less severe than the chronic stable angina sufferer . |
30 | But once this absurdity is made clear , many of us today will probably find that extreme individualism , when thus exposed in its full aridity , is not a heritage that we want to claim . |