Example sentences of "but [pron] [is] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have fiddled about with bits of cork but nothing is really satisfactory . |
| 2 | I have fiddled about with bits of cork but nothing is really satisfactory . |
| 3 | The summer promised to be delicious , but nothing is ever perfect . |
| 4 | But no-one 's yet sure how it will handle . |
| 5 | ‘ They say that he is very tall and very thin , but no-one is really sure , ’ I said . |
| 6 | cos you 've got an opinion and you 're gon na stick to it but everyone is totally different , everyone 's got a totally different view on things . |
| 7 | Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment . |
| 8 | ‘ But yours is much better , Sister Dew , ’ said Sophia nobly . |
| 9 | but yours is much nicer . |
| 10 | He has made mistakes , but nobody is more committed to opening up Australia 's still-stuffy economy . |
| 11 | It is hard to put a value on a company which has large assets and turnover , but which is barely profitable , and it could be that BAe found the price it had to pay for Rover just too good to refuse . |
| 12 | It is the whole complex of behaviour , thought and feeling , expressing itself in custom , in art , in political and social organisation , in religious structure and religious thought , which we can perceive most clearly as a whole in the less advanced societies , but which is equally present as the peculiar character of the most highly developed people or nation . |
| 13 | If you are working in a classroom with a network , is there one workstation which the teacher uses at the start and end of the lesson , but which is otherwise unused ? |
| 14 | The concept takes its place with ‘ truth ’ and ‘ beauty ’ as an attribute which many may regard as an absolute , but which is finally dependant on its context . |
| 15 | Much of the difficulty stems from the ethos of individualism which is central to the contemporary Western society but which is notably absent from most of the societies which social anthropologists study . |
| 16 | Applied to the theme of meditation , for example , such as is practised within Buddhism and many forms of Hinduism especially , but which is also present within other major religious traditions , a range of possible opinions is possible : 1 . |
| 17 | According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ . |
| 18 | It should also include an analysis of what modern people understand by the very concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , for it is a concept , which is not only used by social scientists , but which is also significant in ordinary discourse . |
| 19 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 20 | Thus , among South American hunters and gatherers , women are actively excluded from hunting large animals , an occasional but highly valued activity , but , on the other hand , they are expected to supply the basis of daily sustenance through gathering of vegetable products , an activity which men affect to despise , but which is far more time consuming , and infinitely more important for subsistence . |
| 21 | There seems no readiness in our government to listen and learn for argument , no capacity for trust and no ability to face the facts which include the vital issues morale and motivation , ways of running things which you simply ca n't put down to cost accountants , but which is absolutely essential to do with solidarity and caring and so on to make things actually work , and as for economics , whenever econor economy from the Germans , upwards or downwards so to speak , is in trouble the future is clearly frightening is n't it ? |
| 22 | A miracle is something that happens , but which is exceedingly surprising . |
| 23 | So weaving is ideal if you have a yarn you want to use but which is too thick for your machine in the normal way . |
| 24 | The maximum loss ( C + P ) is incurred if the share price is equal to the exercise price at expiry but profits will be made if it is lower than E - C - P and if it rises above E + C + P. This is plainly superior to the reverse butterfly spread illustrated in Fig. 7.10(b) as there are no restrictions upon the potential profit ( only in the case of a security price fall where the maximum profit will be E - P - C , but which is still superior to the profit made in the same event with the reverse butterfly spread ) . |
| 25 | In so far as the goal is to extract a ‘ clean ’ data set of ordered clones and probes , but which is still large enough to minimize the number of contigs , a high initial redundancy implies that less additional effort is needed to close any remaining gaps when all available probes are used and all contiguous clones are ordered . |
| 26 | For instance , among the beliefs in virtue of which I claim to know that Napoleon was a great soldier there may be one which is false , but which is so insignificant that my justification for believing that Napoleon was a great soldier would survive my changing my mind on that particular point . |
| 27 | Through the year , the retail sales force have regular regional sales meetings but their is only one national sales conference . |
| 28 | Knighton , McColl and Elliott all get a statistical raw deal , he insists , but none is more wronged than bottom of the table Len Ashurst . |
| 29 | But she 's also shy and has thought about quitting acting several times when she 's had a lukewarm review or been rejected for a role . |
| 30 | But she 's just one of those women who do n't like leaving stuff around , you know what I mean ? |