Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] but [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incidence of board theft is thankfully low but it does happen . |
| 2 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 3 | Yee … e … es , Melvin 's annoyingly adenoidal but he has the Common Touch . |
| 4 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 5 | The definition of connected person is somewhat complex but it includes a director , the director 's relatives and companies within a group . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's terribly sad but I do n't think I ever really loved her , either . |
| 7 | This , too , is entirely reasonable but it does require that attention be paid to compatibilities of systems so that future system integration remains possible . |
| 8 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 9 | This suggestion is not implausible but it remains to specify the mechanism by which the content of a memory might act to determine its retrievability . |
| 10 | To try to predict the state of the market in five years time is not easy but it seems likely that the products will be more integrated , have a degree of artificial intelligence to provide unskilled operators with advice on how to compose the pages and support colour both through local printing systems and via links to professional equipment . |
| 11 | Data on admission to hospital is not comprehensive but they suggest that admission rates rise with declining social class . |
| 12 | It is not perfect but I have no time to edit it further . |
| 13 | ( " he is not old but he suffers terribly from gout " ) . |
| 14 | It 's not dangerous but she loses power . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's not possible but it 's happened , ’ he said angrily . |
| 16 | I have my doubts but Morgan maintained : ‘ It 's not insurmountable but we have to work very hard . ’ |
| 17 | It 's not scientific but I felt like it . |
| 18 | It 's not bad but he do n't use them till they 've run out he just uses them and leaves them laying about and come and takes some more . |
| 19 | and it was dark green oh it it 's not bad but you know I 'd just lost ten pounds to the taxi driver to him giving me the wrong change so I was feeling in a very frugal mood an and this the green of this candlestick holder you know what I call the old fashioned dark green , of some china ? |
| 20 | Well if he 's not busy but he said he might go fishing . |
| 21 | This is more expensive but it has a particular advantage in television coverage . |
| 22 | It 's still disturbing but it does have a certain grandeur . |
| 23 | It is reasonably hardwearing but it lacks the springiness and suppleness of wool ; consequently , silk rugs tend to retain any creases or scuffing in the pile , and far greater care is needed to protect them from damage . |
| 24 | It 's probably right but it does n't actually count in that calculation it 's something quite separate . |
| 25 | I do n't think that 's strictly true but I do think that the discussion we 've heard so far er has fully justified erm the the raising of some fundamental questions about the the the the method of projections . |
| 26 | Food for Microwaving is also useful but it has some curious entries : under flour , for instance , it simply describes what flour is and what it is used for , but has nothing to offer on how microwaving affects it in pastry , cakes , etc . |
| 27 | The total number of people who specifically have addictive disease is known and the total number of people whose lives are significantly affected by addictive disease of one kind or another in someone else is also unknown but it seems unlikely to be less than 25% of the total population . |
| 28 | If you are not eligible to be put in if you do n't have a motor car then you 're discounting an enormous number of people who may have motorcycles or motor caravans or , you know , something which is perfectly valid but it invalidates the information that you think you are getting out of the file because you only put in certain perfectly reasonable , groups of er of things and i in , in , in Boots there 's a , there 's a er there 's a a wonderful expression or actually is , is the one I 'm particularly thinking about , you know we , we sell shall we say a million bottles of aspirin a year , it is in fact considerably more than that , and that is perfectly reasonable and valid and mm but in the definition of that we obviously only included what Boots the Chemists sold because that 's all the people who |
| 29 | I said the sharp one this one he 's fairly cheap but they use him a lot , . |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't easy but it has to be attempted . |