Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] [am/are] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But luckily I 'm a quick learner ’ , she says . |
| 2 | Most crystals are initially unreachable , but luckily there are several numbered blocks on each level which allow you to build a bridge across the void — if you stand on a block marked ‘ 4 ’ and move off the platform you create a block marked ‘ 3 ’ , the original turning into a standard unmarked jobbie . |
| 3 | Not many women are totally happy with their body but luckily there are lots of ways it can be improved upon . |
| 4 | There are few predatory starfish offered for the aquarium but thankfully there are some really excellent non-predatory species such as the Fromia starfishes , Fromia elegans and Fromia monalis , and the dramatic blue Linkia laevigator . |
| 5 | So many girls at school say , ‘ Bloody hell , I must go on a diet ’ , but mostly they 're not serious about it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes people jog past , dressed up in tracksuits and that , but mostly I 'm on my own . |
| 9 | But mostly I 'm pushing bits of paper around . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm still finding my way around , but mostly I 'm enjoying it . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As with older children we use the story as the possible starting point , but shift the point of view , so that they are not simply acting out what they have heard but rather they are making decisions which affect the drama . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | E. Generally people are attracted towards the south of Britain , but locally they are attracted towards the towns . |
| 15 | In most cases , they are constructed mainly of bryozoans and capped by a unit of stromatolites ( Füchtbauer 1972 ; Smith 1958 and 1981 ; Peryt 1978 ) , but locally they are formed entirely of stromatolites ( Paul 1980 ) . |
| 16 | When you are driving a racing car and you are taking it up to the limit , you can be nice , you can be charming , but somewhere there are undercurrents going for you that make you a pretty aggressive individual . ’ |
| 17 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 18 | But eventually we 're gon na get people in , if the C E C take up our recommendations from Manchester 's one one five branch , that we 're gon na get people who represent the members of the G M B , the working class , the people that we want to be represented . |
| 19 | As they drew up to Belmodes , Rose said , ‘ I know you 're a rotten little tyke in many ways , but professionally you 're the tops . |
| 20 | But perhaps they are devalued precisely because of their association with femininity ; and perhaps it is therefore one important task of feminism to revalue them , even to celebrate them . |
| 21 | The buyers are still there but perhaps they are now behaving rather more discreetly . |
| 22 | The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids . |
| 23 | But perhaps they 're allowed a new perspective . |
| 24 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 27 | But perhaps I am shirking my responsibilities by being here , in the police force . ’ |
| 28 | But perhaps I 'm just dreaming . |
| 29 | But perhaps I 'm going to be proved to be over innocent in thinking that is a viable approach . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure you do , but perhaps I 'm not ready to hand it over . |