Example sentences of "[is] [adj] but [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is understandable but reflects , I believe , ignorance of the sheer amount of paperwork , often of a trivial or duplicated nature , which departments contain . |
| 2 | Consultant neurologist David Sandeman said : ‘ His voice is weak but improves every day . |
| 3 | It hopes its own order book is solid but knows that double ordering is going on in the sector . |
| 4 | That 's right but do n't forget it must be |
| 5 | Our basic newsletter format is complete but lacks any real identity so the next phase is to add the little touches which make it distinguishable from the crowd . |
| 6 | ‘ I still think the carrot of a final at Wembley is terrific but looking at the gates , especially in Italy , I do n't know if the fans want this competition . ’ |
| 7 | On a 300dpi page printer spot colour separations , ie solid colour , is possible but to get the best results for full colour work then a typesetter is required . |
| 8 | ‘ We think the concept is right but have n't exactly worked out how yet . ’ |
| 9 | The mind is tranquil but alert , its consciousness commanding the body 's movements . |
| 10 | If this conflict is too problematic , one feeling remains conscious and the opposing one is repressed but projected into another person who expresses it . |
| 11 | This route is direct but becomes tedious in the later stages . |
| 12 | The woman driver of the hired van who 's British but has ben living in france for eleven years had apparently driven a mile on the wrong side of the road . |
| 13 | What we need is Speed and Wallace back and to buy a good striker , White is OK but stuck out on the right wing he wo n't score many goals IMHO . |
| 14 | The great British films all tap into a problem , the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed , that is universal but gains a particular inflection from being seen in the British context . |
| 15 | In contrast with patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis , and to HIV-infected patients in general , increasing age was protective in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ; this paradoxical effect is unexplained but has wide confidence limits and a type I error ( of small numbers ) can not be absolutely excluded . |
| 16 | Books like these contain much music which is transitory but include insufficient hymnody from the traditional repertoire . |
| 17 | For example , we may find that a job applicant for a position in sales was an international athlete in her teens ; on its own this piece of data is interesting but provides almost no insight into future performance in sales , especially if there is no demand for athletics in the job . |
| 18 | She is chocolate-brown but has fair-coloured highlights ( the poodle was champagne-colour ) , and you 'll also see she has a white beard and a tiny dab of white on one of her back paws . |
| 19 | The model described in this section is simple but captures the fact that , although there are strong competitive elements within the economy , virtually every firm in the corporate sector has some degree of monopoly power . |
| 20 | The game is simple but works very well . |
| 21 | Coulommiers is a small Brie , eaten very young when the surface mould is only just starting to appear , and Fongeru is similar but ripened in fronds of bracken and very difficult to obtain . |
| 22 | S. Stefano Rotondo is similar but has an inner ring of Ionic columns supporting an entablature while , across the circle , is a pierced dividing wall supported on two Corinthian columns . |
| 23 | Parking is easy but booking essential . |
| 24 | He is unhurried but listens . |
| 25 | Average room temperature , 60°–70°F ( 16–22°C ) , is fine but keep ferns away from radiators . |
| 26 | Running a large application on a PC is fine but steal between 32K and 128K for your desktop accessory and your spreadsheet model may no longer fit . |
| 27 | In Barra and adjacent islands , machair is widespread but occurs as discrete bayhead units , although Eoligarry machair is a distinctive peninsula joining the northern part of Barra to the central massif . |
| 28 | my dad was saying , you know it 's , it 's when I did it it was really good and everything , you know , as long as you do n't get addicted it 's okay but try because you 're going to when you get older , |
| 29 | The design is unique but has influenced many smaller churches . |
| 30 | Of course every work of art is unique but enter the technique of ‘ hedonic regression ’ |