Example sentences of "but it is [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may seem a macho way to treat the hair but it is also a sure way for pulling the hair out . |
| 2 | When we are fat , losing weight is important for our health but it is also a great boost to morale to feel more attractive because we have managed to shed surplus pounds . |
| 3 | Spitzer s approach may therefore seem less scientific than theirs , but it is also a great deal closer to most readers ' experience , as the revelatory quality of his best studies shows . |
| 4 | This war has another side : I have said that it is a miserable , dirty and very bloody war , but it is also a meaningless war . |
| 5 | But it is also a good idea to keep a nest egg for emergencies . |
| 6 | This feeling owes a lot to all the novels and films and to actual practice with condemned men being ‘ granted their last wish before they die ’ , but it is also a strong expression of trying to anticipate impending loss . |
| 7 | Change in rural transport is not only the key to many of the changes outlined in Chapters 4 and 5 , but it is also a central connecting factor linking service provision and rural deprivation . |
| 8 | Glycollic acid could be a precursor for the petrochemical feedstock , ethylene glycol but it is also a useful chemical in its own right , serving as a descalent and as a mordant in the dyeing industry . |
| 9 | The concern with stress reduction is valid in its own right , but it is also a vital prerequisite for successful engagement with educational innovation . |
| 10 | He glances uneasily out of the window " ( p. 44 ) , but it is also a noteworthy example of his conversational meandering . |
| 11 | But it is also a binding force , one that holds people together and sustains them ’ |
| 12 | This is a horrifying story , but it is also a moving testament to the courage of the child who grew up to become a man surprisingly free from bitterness or hatred . |
| 13 | The Agia Triadha sarcophagus is a marvellous work of Minoan art ; but it is also a positive and glowing affirmation of the Minoans ' beliefs concerning human mortality and the life after death . |
| 14 | As a cultural practice it is embedded in national traditions and subject to institutional constraints , but it is also a multi-interpretable art form , which may be opaque in its meanings , or a window on the world ( for feminist windows are different ) . |
| 15 | But it is also a psychological fact that immediate satisfaction can lead to disgust . |
| 16 | This Conservative environment may be one which encourages the development of an ordinary social life , but it is also an extraordinary environment . |
| 17 | But it is also an inflated price since it represents a healthy premium for control of the last really big established national player in the US cellular market . |
| 18 | But it is also an ideological statement : the housewife 's place is in the home washing and hanging out her own clothes ; not in the launderette where they are processed for her . |
| 19 | ‘ It is the sort of place I know I can do well at , but it is also an unusual sort of circuit too . |
| 20 | Contrary to what is often said , there is a law of trespass in Scotland but it is rather a complex and grey area . |
| 21 | But it is increasingly a professional and commercial business where " amateurs " are not welcomed . |
| 22 | To classify these units into different types is inevitably an over-simplification , but it is nevertheless a helpful exercise . |
| 23 | The biology may not be very convincing in this argument , but it is nevertheless a useful distinction to make , given Freud 's purpose of understanding the emotional structure of human groups . |
| 24 | The story of the Home Guard is well known thanks to ‘ Dad 's Army , ’ but it is nevertheless an amazing tale . |
| 25 | Architect Robert Luna 's remodelling of the second floor possesses a few postmodern touches here and there , such as angular cutouts in gallery walls , but it is otherwise a straightforward design in which many of the massive spaces remain daunting for viewer and smaller artworks alike . |
| 26 | But it is hardly a rational basis for a business decision . |
| 27 | This circuit is meant to be adapted to your specific needs , so rather than call it ‘ The Lakeland Way ’ or anything as horrendous as that , I would rather call it something antiquated like : ‘ Notes Towards a Considered Circular Pedestrian Peregrination Amongst some of the Major Fells and Dales of the County of Cumbria ’ , but it is hardly a working title . |
| 28 | The preferential replication of genes by means of natural selection may well be a necessary condition for evolution to take place , but it is hardly a sufficient explanation for how the enormous diversity of life in space and time has come about . |
| 29 | That may be an arresting statement , but it is hardly an exaggerated description of what they did . |
| 30 | It is liable no doubt to be avoided for fraud but it is still a good contract … ’ |