Example sentences of "but [is] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did the engineering for the new Rolls , but is believed to have felt that a smaller , lighter and more economical new car should have been developed . |
| 2 | ( This is not the present ladies ' room but is believed to have been on the first floor of the main clubhouse where it was known to be in the 1940 's at least ) . |
| 3 | Four paragraphs later where the second quotation appears , the child is not unable to take responsibility but is refusing to take it . |
| 4 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |
| 5 | Primary pleural lymphoma has been described , particularly in Japan but is said to arise most frequently from old inflammatory pleural disease , is usually of B cell type and is usually localised to the pleura . |
| 6 | The encryption algorithm , nicknamed Skipjack , is intended to remain confidential , but is said to work on 64-bit blocks , like the DES algorithm , but with 32 rounds of scrambling as compared to DES 's 16 . |
| 7 | Interleaf is also active with PC and Macintosh versions of its Technical Publishing Software and NBI has the recently launched Legend product which is only available on PCs but is slated to move onto the Macintosh soon . |
| 8 | Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH put up some money for the development of Viking , and Memorex Telex NV had been planning to market the product too , but is understood to have pulled out . |
| 9 | It looked like many of the other leather boots around , but is stated to have all the Merrell features . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows . |
| 11 | The wording of the section suggests that this power could not be used to restrict the right to inspect or obtain copies , for example by requiring good cause to be shown thus preventing share registers being used as ‘ sucker-lists , ’ but is intended to ensure that the matter is reproduced in a way which is as ‘ user-friendly ’ as possible without imposing undue burdens on the company . |
| 12 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help self-employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 13 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |
| 14 | ‘ Financial reporting is not an end in itself but is intended to provide information useful for many purposes . |
| 15 | Ferguson will let him go but is looking to recoup around Pounds 1m for the midfielder , whose Old Trafford career never really recovered from a crippling injury in England 's colours soon after his move . |
| 16 | Smith , a former Davis and Kings Cup player , currently coaches 5 players but is looking to expand the size of his squad with the help of sponsorship . |
| 17 | British Telecom falls into this category , but is looking to have its dominant carrier status revoked . |
| 18 | It has six current employees , but is hoping to increase this number to 16 by June 1993 . |
| 19 | AST now earns 7% of its revenue from open systems business , but is hoping to expand this to 30% over the next three years . |
| 20 | It plans to issue a protective writ but is hoping to achieve a settlement . |
| 21 | With modern microelectronic devices , however , automation is no longer only to be seen in factories that make identical goods in continuous streams , but is spreading to batch production . |
| 22 | The temperature T 2 is not of course an experimentally measurable quantity but is calculated to lie approximately 50 K below the experimental T g and can be related to T g on this basis . |
| 23 | SUNDERLAND manager Malcolm Crosby admits he 's on a roundabout — but is determined to hang on to his job . |
| 24 | She becomes pregnant by him and is forced to leave home but is determined to keep the child . |
| 25 | In developing a critique of scientism ( which Habermas regards Knowledge and Human Interests to be ) he is not rejecting the epistemological validity of the nomological sciences or the hermeneutic sciences but is trying to orient them in relation to the critical sciences . |
| 26 | It cuts the ground from under her , and depresses her , at a time when she is fully aware that she is no longer sexually desirable , but is trying to build a new and satisfying image as an elegant , wise , elderly woman who is still interesting as a person . |
| 27 | He 's a tough competitor but is tending to disappear from the action too often these days . |
| 28 | This relief cost the Exchequer £1.1 billion in 1978/79 , but is estimated to have reached £7 billion in 1989/90 ( see Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 29 | This susceptibility is not caused by a single gene defect but is thought to result from the cumulative interaction of a number of genes . |
| 30 | Its date is uncertain but is thought to have been about 9Myr , and it is placed at this date on the phylogeny in Box 3 ( identified as SH ) . |