Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when it is hot , it is very hot ; but mostly it is just wet . |
| 2 | But mostly it 's either something I 've written or something old . |
| 3 | That lead singer can be quite funny , but mostly he 's just like a maddie . |
| 4 | Prime Minister David Lange may be know internationally as the David who slew the nuclear giant , but locally he 's better known as the man whose monetarist Minister of Finance , Roger Douglas , has led a successful crusade to corporatise government and unshackle the economuy . |
| 5 | Bardolet has gone on to win three rounds in a row — the first hat-trick by a GM Spain driver — but remarkably he is n't leading the championship . |
| 6 | It 's difficult as far as the alternatives are concerned , is that no alternatives , but effectively it 's about four times the cost to administer , because you can dip a hundred sheep off one of the er , packs and it 's a smaller pack . |
| 7 | But perhaps what is most noticeable from this and other research is that the differences seem marginal . |
| 8 | Some people say there is more sniffing in the summer , but perhaps it 's just more obvious in the long summer evenings . |
| 9 | But perhaps it 's just as well . ’ |
| 10 | We 're sorry that his Mum , what 's her name ? , died , and that his Dad did n't come along with his new stepmother , but perhaps it 's just as well . |
| 11 | But perhaps it 's more a question of what I can do for you ? ’ |
| 12 | But perhaps it 's as well I did . |
| 13 | I imagine it to be like the worst kind of monthly cramp and the most fierce of labour pains but perhaps it is even worse . |
| 14 | But perhaps it is not too simple to suggest that we are also conscious of Zuckerman as a deflection of the wrath over Roth which works by making Zuckerman responsible for the outrage . |
| 15 | Shortage of time is a common complaint in every walk of life , but perhaps it is only a perception . |
| 16 | Erm that 's putting it bluntly because erm obviously being a volunteer is a sort of two way thing , we could n't run without volunteers , we 're very grateful for the ones we 've got but So it 's clearly a matter of whether you decide and whether you like the way we like to run things or or not . |
| 17 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 18 | Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that . |
| 19 | But apparently he 's all right for the weekend because Saturday is a courting-free day ! ’ |
| 20 | The speed of them and everything you know , you you 'd think the film was speeded up but apparently it 's not . |
| 21 | This has a certain ring to it , but apparently it is not entirely accurate . |
| 22 | Well that will seem to me to be a bit more but obviously it 's up to you but it may not quite work out as neatly as erm but you may well like to think about the role of women as perceived , the way they treat men and relationships . |
| 23 | but obviously it 's pretty busy now but you know we can go to them and say this is what we found , you know |
| 24 | ‘ But inside she is only dust . |
| 25 | ‘ But personally he 's well stimulated and satisfied ? ’ |
| 26 | He 's not supposed to be first , he 's only supposed to be the exhibits man , but suddenly he 's there , running down the hallway . |
| 27 | The southernmost part of Korea was a mere 90 miles ( 145 km ) from Japan ; Korea resembled Japan in having a large number of islands but only one is politically significant — Cheju-do , to the south-west of the peninsula . |
| 28 | The excitement rises with the plane but soon it is just another flight . |
| 29 | The expression " That shady City of Palme trees ' is more conventionally homophoric ; but nevertheless it is metaphorically " displaced " and encoded through the use of a distal demonstrative . |
| 30 | Of course , the effort required is a true social cost ( it reduces the manager 's utility , and the manager is a part of society ) and so it should be an offset on the social benefits , but nevertheless it is not clear that this mechanism described will lead to the socially efficient amount of effort being supplied . |