Example sentences of "[noun] but it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is an exotic dancer who you could say , in modern terms , is a strippogram but it is actually set in 1870s Russia so she is an exotic dancer . |
| 2 | The prolonged oesophageal acid exposure seen in patients with hiatus hernia is because of reduced acid clearance but it is only seen in patients with lower oesophageal sphincter deficiency . |
| 3 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 4 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 5 | It is the kind of system with which experts can quickly get to grips but it is also targeted at non-technical authors , enabling them to quickly edit text , sound and images either to create multimedia presentations or to produce interactive multimedia applications . |
| 6 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 7 | Poverty not only exists as a consumption experience but it is also related to labour market experience . |
| 8 | It 's project engineering Roger but it 's actually saying that the project manager needs to be trained to ferret out certain information . |
| 9 | But the heading is enterprise but it 's open ended enough |
| 10 | Most of it is covered in water but it 's still called Earth . |
| 11 | We try to keep it under the surface but it 's definitely become much more of a problem . |
| 12 | Not only is it pitting top provincial players against each other but it is also providing them with opportunities to play even tougher , more competitive rugby . |
| 13 | Like Kos , Rhodes has many fine , deserted beaches but it 's best getting there by car . |
| 14 | Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters . |
| 15 | Mr Kinnock is not obliged to include Mr McNamara in his first Cabinet but it is widely expected in the province that the Liverpool-born Roman Catholic would assume the portfolio that he has shadowed for more than five years . |
| 16 | Agriculture campaigner Robin Maynard said : ‘ £31 million over three years might build a few ornamental ponds in the countryside but it is hardly going to generate a major shift in agricultural policy from over-intensive agriculture to sustainable farming practice . ’ |
| 17 | The term ‘ plough-witches ’ is local to this area but it is also recorded in Huntingdonshire . |
| 18 | It was evasive about why IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard did n't show up as licensees but it 's obviously expecting their announcements by and by . |
| 19 | Computer aided instruction ( C.A.I. ) strictly should cover other techniques such as simulation and computer based procedures but it is usually intended to mean a situation where a student sits in front of a screen on which the presented formats relate to his developing cognitive activity as expressed by his manipulations of the associated key-board . |
| 20 | Software might be restricted , as in this book , to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information . |
| 21 | This is then the complete fall of the family unit as the two sisters grapple over an issue they believe to be , once more , love but it is merely desire for Edmund . |
| 22 | It is presumed that they were then introduced at BMK but it is also recorded that hand loom weaving had already stopped at Burnside in 1881 when second hand power looms rom Crossleys of Halifax were introduced . |
| 23 | There is an element of danger in the show but it is thoroughly checked , but there 's always a first time . |
| 24 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 25 | Chinese parents do , of course , shower love and attention on their children but it is always made quite clear that child's-play has to remain well within the limits of normal social behaviour . |
| 26 | Changes for the better may be in the pipeline but it 's clearly going to take some work to convince the sceptics . |
| 27 | The council will balance its budget this year but it 's only getting an increase of 6.5 per cent and it needs 8 per cent . |
| 28 | Not , not there is a side chapel there , the east chapel and that 's the catholic chapel but it 's also used by the non- catholic group . |
| 29 | Your doctor prescribes it as Prozac but it 's already earned the nickname the happiness pill , but is it safe ? |
| 30 | It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 . |