Example sentences of "but are [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 2 | They are not corridors , as , of course , the exigencies of local traffic scarcely render that sort of coach desirable , but are built specially for the service between Watford and Euston , and Watford and Broad Street . |
| 3 | For this species , our data refute the hypothesis that female ornaments are functionless but are expressed merely as a result of a genetic correlation between the sexes . |
| 4 | A rattlesnake 's fangs are neatly folded away when not in use but are swung forward for the strike . |
| 5 | ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning . |
| 6 | ‘ These bacteria are normally harmless but are triggered off by a rise in temperature . |
| 7 | These topics are discussed in detail in textbooks dealing with microbiology but are outlined briefly in the remainder of this section and the main points of the first three subjects are summarised in Figure 6.1 . |
| 8 | For budding artists who would like to stage their own exhibition , but are put off by the costs of framing , a visit to the Melford Fine Arts is a must . |
| 9 | For budding artists who would like to stage their own exhibition , but are put off by the costs of framing , a visit to the Melford Fine Arts is a must . |
| 10 | In the poem 's final radiant lines , his thoughts remain with Hartley , but are linked now to an evocation of the natural world of Stowey in all its beauty , even the strange beauty at work outside his cottage that February midnight , where ‘ silent icicles ’ are ‘ Quietly shining to the quiet Moon ’ . |