Example sentences of "but it is [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One sees this not only on the ground , travelling through these parts , but it is also brought out clearly on the Ordnance map . |
| 2 | This research influences the way volunteers work with victims but it is also passed on by Victim Support to other organisations that might find it useful : it provides an input into every police training course in Britain , and that has led to a potential new area of work . |
| 3 | The book is in fact a fourteenth or fifteenth-century forgery of uncertain Crowland authorship , but it is probably based partly on authentic contemporary evidence . |
| 4 | This could so easily have been a recommendable mid-price set of Mozart 's mature Piano and Violin Sonatas , but it is arguably put out of court by the early digital recording ( made between 1975 and 1978 ) which gives the violin an unpleasant rough edgy tone . |
| 5 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |
| 6 | No suitable candidates have yet been detected , but it is readily understood how such traces could arise : solar uv radiation and the thunderstorms which are known to occur in the Jovian atmosphere could act on various atmospheric constituents to produce a rich variety of coloured substances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 9 | It is thought that rice was first cultivated in India and Indo-China , but it is now grown extensively throughout the Far East . |
| 10 | Moreover , Emerald is late — originally the company said that it would be launched in the first quarter , but it is now expected sometime this summer . |
| 11 | No. 28 was formerly the wheel turning shop , but it is now used mainly for automatic machines . |
| 12 | Since Chaucer 's day this has been referred to as CATERWAULING , but it is often recorded not as an aggressive sound but as a sexual one . |