Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its biochemical causes are little understood but the effects of the disease in terms of organic deterioration are irrefutable and its effects on behaviour catastrophic . |
| 2 | The politician may have been democratically elected but the politician does not have the same experience as the career official . |
| 3 | ‘ Teenagers are much maligned but the support they gave was tremendous , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Hitherto , youth , unlike children , had been largely ignored but the events and trends that so characterized the decades circa 1880 and 1920 brought young workers firmly within the investigative framework of the social sciences as report after report vividly illustrated their significance in most areas of society . |
| 5 | Rats and hamsters are easily infected but the disease is rarely fatal . |
| 6 | Exclusion clauses are strictly construed but the common law rules on construction will not prevent a clearly worded clause from operating . |
| 7 | Scotland and Ireland are also represented but the biggest threat to a home win lies with American duo Fred Couples and Davis Love . |
| 8 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 9 | That principle was enlisted where a disposition was defective , and rested on the fiction that the nuncupatio had been correctly performed but the copyist who had noted it down had left something out . |
| 10 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 11 | Needless to say , David Sole will be hugely missed but the show must go on . |
| 12 | ( 1 ) None of the objects set forth in any sub-clause of this Clause shall be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to each such object , and none of such objects shall , except where the context expressly so requires , be in any way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object or objects set forth in such sub-clause , or by reference to or inference from the terms of any other sub-clause of this Clause , or by reference to or inference from the name of the Company . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) None of the objects set forth in any sub-clause of this Clause shall be restrictively construed but the widest interpretation shall be given to each such object , and none of such objects shall , except where the context expressly so requires , be in any way limited or restricted by reference to or inference from any other object or objects set forth in such sub-clause , or by reference to or inference from the terms of any other sub-clause of this Clause , or by reference to or inference from the name of the Company . |
| 14 | The book has been well edited but the quality of the typescript is variable . |
| 15 | The theoretical aspects of these techniques are well covered but the environmental applications are rather sparse . |
| 16 | Serbs say they are well treated but the ITN crew saw sick and emaciated men , many too scared to talk |
| 17 | The Board claimed that a ballot on industrial action had not been validly conducted but the High Court judge said the evidence for this ‘ did not come anywhere near justifying injunctive relief ’ . |
| 18 | The stress and tension of the occasion were partly to blame but the incident was also an early symptom of bulimia nervosa , the illness which took pernicious hold later that year . |
| 19 | Both were sumptuously decorated but the Hindenburg was the most luxurious . |
| 20 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The family were seriously injured but the youths did nothing to help . ’ |
| 21 | ALCOHOLIC Linda McMullen had been savagely beaten but the main cause of her death was the soil , debris and vegetation that had been packed into her mouth and choked her , a jury at Mold Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 22 | The tribunal found that Mr Bowles had been unfairly dismissed but the EAT held that the tribunal had erred in law in making its decision . |
| 23 | Consistent with these pleiotropic effects of CREB , the CREB gene is widely expressed but the activity of CREB is controlled in a cell type specific manner ( 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 37 ) . |
| 24 | A market purchase is one made on a recognised investment exchange ( which includes the London Stock Exchange and the USM ) , whereas an off-market purchase is one which is not made on a recognised investment exchange ( ie by private contract ) or is so made but the shares are not subject to a marketing arrangement on that exchange . |
| 25 | It may appear that this information is already known but the point at issue is whether the supervisor knows and whether reality matches assumptions . |
| 26 | Council planning officers argue the car park is already under-used but the statistics used as a basis for the decision relate to the pre-Cornmill shopping era . |
| 27 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 28 | The exterior work is largely restored but the interior decoration in the apse is mainly original and consists of marble , porphyry and mother-of-pearl inlay on the lower part of the walls and mosaic above this and in the semi-dome . |
| 29 | It may be noted , however , that if the signs of the expressions for t , p and q in ( 13.24 ) and ( 13.23 ) are changed , the Kerr metric ( 13.27 ) is still obtained but the orientation of r is altered . |
| 30 | Most of Scotland is still rising but the south-east of England is sinking by 15cm a century . |