Example sentences of "[adj] but it be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evaluation is still rudimentary but it is increasingly accepted that with services as massive and costly as those described we must develop techniques for measuring their impact and comparing the success and failure of different approaches . |
| 2 | Erm he , I think what he really must have had was er a sort of mild form of polio when he was young and he 'd got a shoulder , not completely paralysed but it was partially paralysed . |
| 3 | This has come to be regarded as normal but it is now looking rather transient . |
| 4 | Animals bear no comparison , lacking this potential ; the care and protection due them is no less peremptory but it is dramatically limited in scope by their ‘ primitive ’ status . |
| 5 | A plant you do n't water , it droops but it does not die/your collection of erotic images is considerable but it 's always happening to someone else . |
| 6 | Inhibition of MAO-B is also of topical interest since this may prove to be the first manoeuvre that has slowed the progression of Parkinson 's disease ; the mechanism is uncertain but it was originally thought of because this approach blocked the toxicity of the selective dopaminergic poison , MPTP . |
| 7 | This is likely to be approximately 36–40 h post-hCG but it is best determined by experiment on the particular strain of mouse available . |
| 8 | The site was bought by UPH in November 1988 but it was never owned by it because UPH transferred its interest in the contract to buy the site to another company called Chestvale Properties . |
| 9 | The government published its White Paper on the Environment on Sept. 25 , 1990 but it was widely criticized both by politicians and by environmentalists as merely reiterating measures already incorporated into the Environmental Protection Bill which was going through parliament and was enacted on Nov. 1 , 1990 . |
| 10 | I doubt it 's true but it 's certainly worked . |