Example sentences of "a [noun] but it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is usually seen as a weakness but it is equally a strength . |
| 2 | A woman may not be bound by her role as a housewife but it is still the case that in so far as any one person is left with the main responsibility for the housework , that person is the woman . |
| 3 | ‘ There is an exotic dancer who you could say , in modern terms , is a strippogram but it is actually set in 1870s Russia so she is an exotic dancer . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 5 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 6 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 7 | Non-executive directors , that is a strength erm it 's also a threat but it is also a strength but basically it 's acting as a sort of yardstick to control or actually guide the actual management right down from board level right down the company there . |
| 8 | The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her . |
| 9 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 10 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 11 | One might forgive the hyperbole in a politician but it is less easy to take from academic or journalistic critics . |