Example sentences of "but [be] [vb pp] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I attempt champagne again but am given but cursory attention from director . |
| 2 | These houses ( 140 were identified and illustrated ) still stand , but are neglected and decaying and in desperate need of new owners and new uses . |
| 3 | Since historicity and textuality are no longer imagined as smooth pegs sliding into smooth holes , but are seen as irregular and variable-sided , fitting them together will presumably involve some difficulty . |
| 4 | The dark fine-grained rocks lie not in horizontal layers like all those above , but are twisted and buckled and riven with veins of pink granite . |
| 5 | This may not correspond to any major structural difference between languages ; for example , the spoken forms of Urdu and Hindi are almost identical but are perceived as different apparently because of their strong association with Muslim and Hindu ethnicity ( Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 : 45 ) . |
| 6 | Much work has centred on activities that are criminal , by contemporary definitions , but are hidden and undetected — one of the greatest benefits of power being the privacy and impunity that it seems to guarantee ( see Geis and Stotland , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | Some are dismantled entirely into separate components for generative reassembly in reference to grammatical rule , others are partly dismantled but are left as adaptable formulaic frameworks to be adjusted to circumstances ; some again remain as holistically fixed , essentially large-scale lexical items . |
| 8 | Ideas that arise in Quadrant 4 may be very exciting to the person concerned , but be seen as trivial by those who have to implement them , with the result that the innovation process is less effective than it might be . |
| 9 | Some of the refugees originally refused to touch East German territory again , but were reassured when two of the West German diplomats said they would accompany the train , to ensure that the rules were followed . |
| 10 | They included reforms within the Inland Revenue Service ( raising $3,000 million ) and Bush 's controversial capital gains tax changes , dropped from the fiscal 1990 budget under congressional pressure [ see p. 37036 ] , which actually involved reducing the rate of tax , but were assessed as encouraging sufficient declarations of capital gains in fiscal 1991 to raise an additional $4,900 million . |
| 11 | Opponents point out that competing services ran on Britain 's first railway , the Stockton-Darlington line , opened in 1825 , but were abandoned as impractical after 1830 . |
| 12 | But be warned that some species react badly to a change of water chemistry , and a ‘ home quarantine tank in which the fish may be further conditioned and observed before releasing them into an established aquarium , is an asset . |
| 13 | But be prepared and able to speak without it just in case it is not available or an electrical fault develops . |
| 14 | The Ahmadiyya community , numbering over three million members in Pakistan , considers itself Muslim but is regarded as heretical by orthodox Muslims . |
| 15 | Having lost one job he was interviewed at the Feltham Ordnance Factory , but was rejected as useless , ‘ having fallen asleep while waiting to be given instructions ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |
| 17 | I also took on the position knowingly of the bad reputation in Scotland of Sports to the trade regarding hotel sales of your equipment , but was promised that this practice would be cut out . |