Example sentences of "but it [be] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Group 2 argued , for instance , that this configuration is not only cohesively linked by a broad lexical set including the items " rained " , " water " and " wet " , but it is also linked in terms of an implicit cause-and-effect relationship between the propositions expressed by each sentence . |
| 32 | But it is here presented to the teacher as the basic condition of the child , offering a challenge that the potentially handicapping effect of lack of vision or defective vision can be overcome or minimised through appropriate education , social opportunities and the provision of well-chosen aids and equipment . |
| 33 | The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace . |
| 34 | ENGLAND tomorrow unveil a lavish £4.5 million plan to stage cricket 's sixth World Cup — but it is already doomed to failure . |
| 35 | ‘ I have never been there , and I do not know who does ; but it is powerfully protected , ’ Ipuky said wearily . |
| 36 | The significance of migrating larvae of S. vulgaris in natural cases of colic is difficult to assess , but it is generally recognised that where strongyle infections of horses are efficiently controlled the incidence of colic is markedly decreased . |
| 37 | There are different opinions about the exact risk involved in oral sex , but it is generally understood to be much less risky than penetrative sex . |
| 38 | There are no rules defining the distinction between runners and strips , but it is generally accepted that a runner is relatively large ( halfway or corridor size ) , whereas a strip is rarely more than . |
| 39 | Many diverse schools still come from Okinawa , but it is generally accepted that the mainstay of much of the karate that is practised in the world today is the original shotokan style , brought from Okinawa to Japan by karate 's modern-day founder and innovator , Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 40 | A clear waiver of subrogation rights issued by the insurers is obviously preferred , but it is generally accepted that the noting of interests will have the same effect , although there is no guarantee of this . |
| 41 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 42 | You can open and close a file several times within one program , but it is generally considered " better form " not to close a file until you have finally finished with it . |
| 43 | But it is generally thought in the trade that the agreement has been abrogated by the Ivory Coast . |
| 44 | The effect of the Sicilian experience on Yeats is disputed by Yeats scholars , but it is generally agreed that some effect there was . |
| 45 | Whether or not the testing of nuclear weapons in the early 1960s caused a significant decrease in stratospheric ozone may remain controversial , but it is generally agreed by researchers that a future large-scale nuclear exchange with detonations totalling 5000–10,000 million tonnes would lead to substantial depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 46 | This was an effective method of recognition , but it is generally agreed that the method works only for highly constrained tasks . |
| 47 | But it is generally agreed the more suited to our body shape and weight , the better for our general health particularly as we spend , on average , a third of our lives in bed . |
| 48 | It can be mixed with basmati rice to give an attractive appearance , but it is generally used for stuffings for game . |
| 49 | Nepal 's climbing permits , for example , require an undertaking that rubbish will be adequately disposed but it is rarely enforced . |
| 50 | Quite often a stray species arrives with the Redline Rasbora , but it is rarely shipped in quantities . |
| 51 | Birch is a sustainable and fast-growing timber from northern Europe , but it is rarely used for fine furniture because of the skill required to convert the logs . |
| 52 | It is not a strategy that is organisationally entrenched with British political experience , but it is intellectually entrenched as a challenge to the viability of the parliamentary road to socialism . |
| 53 | The book is in fact a fourteenth or fifteenth-century forgery of uncertain Crowland authorship , but it is probably based partly on authentic contemporary evidence . |
| 54 | A leafy retreat is an excellent goal for a small town garden , but it is best made acknowledging the urban setting , using un-wild plants such as bamboo , acanthus , fig , vine , alchemilla , euphorbia , wisteria . |
| 55 | This is likely to be approximately 36–40 h post-hCG but it is best determined by experiment on the particular strain of mouse available . |
| 56 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 57 | But it is depressingly abandoned in its ability to increase , and difficult to uproot , so finds no favour with gardeners . |
| 58 | The flavour of the leaves in singularly characteristic , too , but it is subtly altered in each dish ; for instance , with apple dishes , it becomes peppermint . |
| 59 | Animals bear no comparison , lacking this potential ; the care and protection due them is no less peremptory but it is dramatically limited in scope by their ‘ primitive ’ status . |
| 60 | There , too , one can assign a co-ordination of properties , as in ( 44 ) , or a single complex property , ( 45 ) , but it is simply taken for granted that one does not produce grammatical monstrosities such as ( 46 ) and ( 47 ) with , respectively , simultaneous and successive ( but in neither case co-ordinated ) assignment of different properties . |