Example sentences of "but [pron] is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are staying in what was the British part of the city a long time ago , and as you can imagine the ‘ British Imperialists ’ are not very popular here , but everyone is kind to us , and does n't mention such things . |
| 2 | But nobody is sure of the white extremists ' power . |
| 3 | But nobody is comparable with Redmond the indomitable . |
| 4 | Supplementary information is material relevant to Articles or Letters which can not , for lack of space , be published in full , but which is available from Nature on request . |
| 5 | That is to say , the superposition of a state with an electron " here " and a state with an electron " there " does not produce a state with an electron at some point in between " here " or " there " but a state in which the electron can be found either " here " or " there " , with probabilities which depend ( in a way I have not defined but which is capable of precise specification -see Appendix , AS ) on the balance between the two states . |
| 6 | Two ontological clusters C and C' are distinguished by some f which has values on all x in C but which is meaningless on all y in C' . |
| 7 | One particular incident brought them into focus , an incident over which I puzzled , on and off , for a long time , but which is amenable to analysis using current sociological notions . |
| 8 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 9 | However , realizable assets are now much less important in any estimation of the wealth distribution in Britain , because so much of the wealth of individuals is held in the form of pension rights , wealth which is not immediately realizable , but which is contingent on survival beyond pensionable age . |
| 10 | There is a problem with gripping which has shown some improvement but which is apt to be most problematical when , for instance , she is concentrating hard at her computer . |
| 11 | It is possible that the VT2 binding sites may have their own distinct 3' sequence , but none is apparent for the sites identified in this study . |
| 12 | Allison lost her baby a week later but she is philosophical about it . |
| 13 | but she is preoccupied at the moment with her exams and in a way I 'm glad . |
| 14 | She disapproves of a great deal of Charles 's life , these days ; she thinks his ambitions misplaced , his goals suspect , his methods dangerous , his new political alignments deplorable : but she is loyal to Charles , to Charles himself , to the man that these manifestations in her view misrepresent . |
| 15 | Her appearance at last year 's PFA Rally at Cranfield was her longest flight since her restoration , but she is capable of much longer journeys , especially as her excellent short-field performance enables her to drop into any farm-strip or even a flat field — should circumstances dictate a ‘ precautionary ’ landing for weather or fuel . |
| 16 | Her standards , she says , are high , like those sets herself , but she is fortunate in having ‘ loyal , creative , hardworking staff ’ . |
| 17 | Says a studio executive , ‘ Breathless was added for the dramatic story line she gives the film but she is faithful in style and tone to the original . ’ |
| 18 | But she is afraid of the doctors . |
| 19 | If she will be earning , that will eat into her profits , but she is likely to be more contented than if she had given up her job . |
| 20 | Anglicanism , for example , may be surviving in the countryside of Hertfordshire , and indeed is truly embedded there , but she is adrift in the East End of London ( Ahern and Davie 1987 ) . |
| 21 | But she is conscious of being the first contact customers and suppliers have with the company and of the need to keep cool under fire . |
| 22 | But she is concerned about many things in life . |
| 23 | But she is comfortable on her back . |
| 24 | But she is excellent in the play-extracts , lending Amanda in Private Lives just the right touch of acid mockery and hinting at a whole world of repressed longing as the suburban wife in Still Life ( the embryonic version of Brief Encounter ) . |
| 25 | It is common for a Member who has asked a question on an important matter but who is dissatisfied with the answer that he has received to give notice that he wishes to raise the matter again on the adjournment and to do so . |
| 26 | Imagine a scientist in the distant future who knows everything about the mechanism and neurology of vision , but who is blind from birth . |
| 27 | There may be a lover , a friend , asleep beside you , but who is wide-eyed as a marigold in the trackless dark ? |
| 28 | And so in the course of time , we come to speak of these rights as equitable rights ( because they have their origin in the protection of Equity or the Court of Chancery ) or equally we refer to them as " beneficial rights " because they tell you not who has the legal title ( the legal estate ) but who is entitled to enjoyment or the benefit of the land . |
| 29 | Everything they grow they must take to the market to survive , but everything is expensive for them and so they have nothing . |
| 30 | The difficulty in the case of shares is to fit them into any normal legal category ; but one is unlikely to be left in doubt whether something is or is not a share . |