Example sentences of "[noun] are [adv] [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know them council houses are n't usually but I mean I ca n't visualize how much land there is . |
| 2 | One or two lived , even the top of on the other side of the road , houses are down now but , er , there was , there was three cot which we call cottages which er , much smaller than the others , but they were still very useful and nextdoor to there there used to be a , a chap named , oh nextdoor but two . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's a tricky one to answer because the complexities are still there but we made them a lot more hidden . |
| 4 | The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle , only accessible by a network of sandy tracks . |
| 5 | Their travelling days are now all but over , following a recent trip to Guyana , which landed Horace in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases on his return . |
| 6 | The buyers are still there but perhaps they are now behaving rather more discreetly . |
| 7 | Sounds are all right but words , particularly logical words , tend to activate those parts of the brain that include judgemental and evaluative awareness of the self . |
| 8 | By and large all the previous Guitarist Show exhibitors are still there but the remit of the event has been broadened to incorporate recording , hi-tech , drums and relevant musicians ' services ( including the Performing Right Society and the MU ) , so now you can bring the whole band along to visit . |
| 9 | All the other equations are all right but will not necessarily provide the simplest starting point for solving a given problem . |
| 10 | The ideological points are still there but it 's hard to believe that totalitarian regimentation could be so tight . |
| 11 | The electricity for the factories still depends on imported fuel and the markets are still overseas but the skills of the workers and the quality of the cloth help to keep some of the industry alive . |
| 12 | Today , she says , the issues are still there but the analytical context is n't . |