Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many girls at school say , ‘ Bloody hell , I must go on a diet ’ , but mostly they 're not serious about it . |
| 2 | They might be surfers looking for surf , or spectators looking for surfers , but mostly they are just wave-watchers , bearing witness to the shifting moods of the ocean , timing the pulse of the patient . |
| 3 | ‘ It gets a bit rough round here from time to time , there 's a power station out past the ridge and the boys do their drinking here , but mostly we 're pretty friendly . ’ |
| 4 | They are not in a position to make professional judgments but rather they are more like the craftsman who inherits techniques and modifies them with experience . |
| 5 | There is never only a ‘ core meaning ’ of an utterance but rather there are always alternative models ; novel contexts are being re-created with each utterance ; language users are continually establishing and transforming social reality in their communications . |
| 6 | The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids . |
| 7 | The buyers are still there but perhaps they are now behaving rather more discreetly . |
| 8 | But perhaps we are not very far from finding such proof , if the stratigraphical record of the Moon or Mars proves to parallel in any way that of Earth . |
| 9 | But perhaps I 'm just dreaming . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure you do , but perhaps I 'm not ready to hand it over . |
| 11 | ‘ But perhaps you 're not addicted . ’ |
| 12 | But perhaps you are already aware of that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But perhaps you are not real , like everything else in Seville at the moment , a fantasy being created to send sane men out of their minds . ’ |
| 14 | Red-brick universities , inner-city polytechnics and the Open University have dented that assumption ; but perhaps there are still features of the student experience which we should hold on to if higher education is to offer a cultural enlargement ? |
| 15 | For example , they believe corporate encourages open discussions , but basically they are not influenceable . |
| 16 | But basically there are n't any real really or there are very few decent schemes where they actually take graduates |
| 17 | Well , well see how it goes , but erm I do n't , the thing is you see they can teach you so much about laying different bonds and making patterns and doing portholes and things like that , that 'll be handy to know , but obviously you 're not gon na learn that until much later on |
| 18 | Well I thought I was adequately , adequately provided for the er future but obviously I 'm not , I 'll have to bump that up a little bit . |
| 19 | You 'd be right , but obviously I 'm not the only supporter left feeling frustrated . |
| 20 | Yeah but obviously I 'm not going to waste time putting tights on . |
| 21 | ‘ Paula 's welfare is paramount so I am not making waves with the Hutchinsons at a traumatic time like this but obviously I 'm extremely anxious , ’ he said . |
| 22 | ‘ You get young people who appear to be socially confident and assured in the outside world but inside they are remarkably immature and insecure . |
| 23 | You talk tough but inside you 're just like all the rest of us . |
| 24 | But inside you 're so angry you could kill her , you really wish she were dead . |
| 25 | I 've never thought of her in any other way and never will ; she may look like you , physically , but inside you 're as different as you can possibly be . |
| 26 | This will be difficult to arrange and will certainly not be efficient , but personally I am not sorry at the turn events have taken . |
| 27 | Tons of people have said to me , ‘ Oh , it 's nice to have a rounded body ’ , but personally I 'm not very happy with the body I 've got . |
| 28 | SUMMARY : Zechstein carbonates form important gas reservoirs in Germany and the Netherlands and in at least one commercial field in the U.K. southern North Sea but elsewhere they are largely unexploited . |
| 29 | In George Square the original buildings dating from 1776 still stand on the west side , but elsewhere they are largely modem . |
| 30 | I wan na see what she 's gon na do but anyway we 're not going anyway . |