Example sentences of "but [pron] [is] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional Christian teaching has been removed from many schools and replaced by what may be in the minds of teachers clear and accurate material , but which is not infrequently received as a mish-mash of other religions and vague talk of spiritual development . |
| 2 | The way is then clear for a specifying definition of the ‘ aesthetic ’ , which is not the practical satisfaction of a determinate need , but which is also not offered as objectively real and demanding ( ‘ magico-religious ’ ) belief ; its images are closed and real in themselves . |
| 3 | " There needs to be some factor which when seen in its true light makes the reason for the murder obvious , but which is more easily seen in a false light . " |
| 4 | " But she 's only just met me . " |
| 5 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 6 | but there 's very well confused about the increase er regarded that when your foot , footways forward , cos I think that 's been er , been very essential really the standard of footpaths in charge of the roads and areas these day and er to spend money on that with great , great move . |
| 7 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 8 | Denis Diderot gained lasting fame as the energetic editor of the French Encyclopaedia , but he is also rightly celebrated as an art critic . |
| 9 | But he is only distantly related . |
| 10 | It was Thomas Paine who is said to have suggested United States of America as the name for the new country but he is perhaps best known for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania 1780 and for his important written works including ‘ The Rights of Man ’ . |
| 11 | Professor Laurence Learner is an English scholar at the university , but he 's also well known for his verse , and it 's about his verse I want to talk to him today . |
| 12 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 13 | He 's into sex , but he 's never once mentioned love … |
| 14 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |
| 15 | But it is surely generally accepted that some level of participation is necessary whatever approach to systems design and development is adopted . |
| 16 | The problem in relation to deaf people is nevertheless a challenging one since not only is their language different in vocabulary and grammar from spoken languages but it is also largely carried out in a different medium . |
| 17 | This arrangement can become part of a reproductive grouping , but it is also frequently observed in non-breeding groups , where a hierarchy develops in relation to food sources . |
| 18 | But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university . |
| 19 | It 's well worth doing in one go but it is also well suited to shorter walks — I 've outlined a couple of my favourites . |
| 20 | But it is also increasingly explored by the Right , concerned to explain the electoral disillusionment which drove Bush out of office and Major out of Thatcherism . |
| 21 | But it is also commonly found , more or less explicitly , in traditional grammar , as Chomsky himself pointed out , citing the Port-Royal grammar ( Chomsky , 1968 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ The power to create and manipulate culture as a means or controlling others is well entrenched in the social , Economic and political institutions of a society but it is also continually resisted by opposing cultural forms ’ . |
| 23 | No doubt this was the real point of the missive , but it is rather vaguely expressed and makes one wonder whether the author really had much idea what had happened . |
| 24 | Easily Accessible : Banbury lies on the edge of the Cotswolds and is therefore ideally situated for walking , but it is probably best known for both the nursery rhyme ‘ Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross , To see a fine lady , upon a white horse ’ and for its special cakes made from a 300-year old recipe . |
| 25 | The ‘ Little Bang ’ Theory can not be completely dismissed , but it is today generally discounted . |
| 26 | It is often difficult to distinguish from damp caused by the entry of rain and ground water , but it is nearly always accompanied by the formulation of mould — usually green/black . |
| 27 | ‘ Parents will often give a guardian the right to occupy the house for a certain length of time , but it is nearly always left in trust for the child . |
| 28 | A Court of Protection exists to defend elderly or mentally incapacitated people , but it is not widely known . |
| 29 | Not only does the site not have planning permission for office development but it is not even zoned for this use and would thus require a material contravention order or a Section 4 motion by the City fathers to allow any big office development here . |
| 30 | But it is not just played for easy excitement : this is alarming because it is so near the edge of what is possible , and yet it has just enough in reserve for tremendous final prestissimo . |