Example sentences of "but it [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 32 | The interpretation of the super-structures naturally presents greater problems , but it is argued that most had gabled roofs with rafters resting on wall plates below head height . |
| 33 | Strictly speaking , collocations represent syntagmatic and paradigmatic knowledge rather than semantic , but it is argued that they represent the implicit application of syntactic , semantic and pragmatic knowledge [ Sharman , 1990 ] , and for reasons of simplicity have been referred to as a source of semantic information . |
| 34 | Rather a bizarre concept , some would think , but it is handled in a sensitive way . |
| 35 | Adventure in Kingston 's stones is fast and active but it is handled with a light touch . |
| 36 | But it is contradicted by Nationwide 's house prices index for November which shows a 2% fall in prices . |
| 37 | , America ) is true in the start state but it is contradicted in some later states . |
| 38 | But it is bound to be expensive , and defence budgets are being cut . |
| 39 | But it is bound to stimulate the evolution of formal procedures for overcoming the obstacles met by investigators . |
| 40 | That will alter the average as well in a different way , but it is bound to alter the median . |
| 41 | The degree of suffering involved varies according to the temperament of the individual ; but it is bound to be no less tormenting than the hair shirt of the penitent . |
| 42 | Evaluation is identified as the fourth and final style of the planning cycle but it is emphasised that evaluation is not simply something that comes as a ‘ big bang ’ at the end of the process , but that it is required throughout . |
| 43 | They part , but it is arranged that they can meet again any day in White Friars , near Chester 's Inn , at seven in the morning . |
| 44 | The old system had fallen into disrepute because of its widespread use as a tax dodge , and because it encouraged conifer planting , but it is recognised that grants are not as effective . |
| 45 | But it is acknowledged in security circles that whoever fired the shots that killed the two soldiers and constables Alan Corbett in Belcoo , Fermanagh , and Jonathan Reid in Crossmaglen last month , has received army training in handling firearms and is a cool operator . |
| 46 | This does not replicate the monolithic vision of the Early Church but it is characterized by the same overall patterns . |
| 47 | The theory is less applicable to land animals , but it is supported by the paler back of a sloth that lives upside-down . |
| 48 | State 6 to State 4 — usually after a faulty item has been checked ( eg. cleaned ) and found to be good , but it is decided that no further data should be added to the item . |
| 49 | State 6 to state 4 — usually after a faulty item has been checked ( eg. cleaned ) and found to be good , but it is decided that no further data should be added to the item |
| 50 | The style and feeling of the poem is exalted , but it is written with perfect lucidity , and a firm sense of the tradition of Christian conversion . |
| 51 | It is hoped that it will be read by all who have an interest in the delivery of nursing care to patients but it is written to help those who manage nurses . |
| 52 | The first part describes the plain of the Temple , but it is written in strange tribal symbols , which you will have to decode . |
| 53 | The third edition , to be published in 1991 contains much that is new or refined from the second , but it is written wholly within the plate tectonic theoretical framework , and reveals no paradigm change from the second edition . |
| 54 | The preventive duty is broader than Section I of the 1980 Child Care Act , but it is owed to a restricted group of children ( Masson , 1990 ) . |
| 55 | It would be more acceptable if the dam made electricity , but it is silted up because the water analysis got muddled up and the river is much siltier than was originally expected . |
| 56 | That is the conventional view , but it is disputed by Maureen Cox , former teacher , now psychology lecturer . |
| 57 | Everyone agrees that this means both sides must be heard , but it is disputed whether it also means that both sides must have equal time even though the arguments of one side are more complex or require more witnesses than the other . |
| 58 | The ESR reflects these changes in the various acute phase proteins , but it is affected by factors such as anaemia and hyperglobulinaemia , which may be irrelevant to the acute phase response in some prople . |
| 59 | He is known to have favoured that , but it is rejected by the report as a ’ a crude device which can not do justice to the different abilities a pupil may show in different subjects and contexts ’ . |
| 60 | At paragraph 1497 , it is stated that in larceny the owner of the thing stolen has no intention to part with his property therein to the person taking it , although he may intend to part with the possession ; in false pretences the owner does intend to part with his property in the money or chattel , but it is obtained from him by fraud . |