Example sentences of "but [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 2 | It has occurred in each month from October to June , but is most usually found between December and May , either wintering or on spring passage . |
| 3 | Autumn movements or arrival may start as early as August , but is most usual in late October ; most autumn passage is observed in November . |
| 4 | Joint-ill , as this infection is commonly called , can occur at any age up until three to four months of age , but is most common in the first six weeks of life . |
| 5 | The precise number of peers temporal is unknown but is most probably well in excess of a thousand , most of whom , however , never sit . |
| 6 | Tunbridge Wells finished runner-up to Michael Stoute 's colt at Newbury , but is most unlikely to have progressed enough to reverse the form even on 12lb better terms . |
| 7 | We can distinguish two main kinds : ( a ) an emphasis on the ‘ informing spirit ’ of a whole way of life , which is manifest over the whole range of social activities but is most evident in ‘ specifically cultural ’ activities — a language , styles of art , kinds of intellectual work ; and ( b ) an emphasis on ‘ a whole social order ’ within which a specifiable culture , in styles of art and kinds of intellectual work , is seen as the direct or indirect product of an order primarily constituted by other social activities . |
| 8 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |
| 9 | The third test appears first in Lord Pearce 's judgment but is most clearly stated by Lord Wilberforce : No exhaustive test can be stated — probably no precise non-exhaustive test . |
| 10 | It is often the case , especially in religious matters , that wherever controversial premises are stubbornly adhered to , and crystal-clear reasoning and all human intelligence cries aloud in protest but is ruthlessly suppressed and ignored , then an endless supply of written matter is assured for evermore . |
| 11 | We shall consider here only matrices of even order ; the odd-order case is quite straightforward , but is algebraically more complicated . |
| 12 | He takes up a job as a pilot shuttling planes between a Greek island and the mainland , but is eventually able to vindicate himself when his old ship reaches the Aegean . |
| 13 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 14 | Everett Fahy is fine while on the trail of the Velasquez , but is eventually discredited due to his second thoughts about the deaccessioning of an important Henri Rousseau . |
| 15 | The following year brought The Miner 's Daughter in which the heroine deserts her working-man husband for the new mine-owner and his lavish apartment ; in time she becomes unhappy but is eventually reclaimed by her husband who storms into a smart reception and virtually throttles the mine-owner . |
| 16 | On the Intel side , the PCE-5S Pentium machine will be shown : it is currently running at 50MHz , but is eventually intended to be a 66MHz machine — all being well at Intel Corp . |
| 17 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 18 | Condensation can form anywhere , but is particularly prevalent in moist conditions where ventilation is poor and where heat is absent or kept to a minimum . |
| 19 | The problem of generalization is a serious one in most of psychology but is particularly poignant in psychobiology because of the damaging consequences of getting it wrong . |
| 20 | Miss Riley served the Booksellers Association in many ways but is particularly remembered for her painstaking work on the Education Committee . |
| 21 | It is for everyone in local offices but is particularly relevant to Client Advisers . |
| 22 | The facility is available for all options , but is particularly useful for options which extend over two or more pages . |
| 23 | The problem is not unique to this area but is particularly acute here . |
| 24 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 25 | John Kirwan , the wing who has scored 25 tries in 30 Tests , missed training with an inflamed Achilles tendon but is firmly expected to play . |
| 26 | Groundnut or peanut oil is similar in character and uses to sunflower and grapeseed oils but is rather more expensive . |
| 27 | It is not a comprehensive encyclopaedia of surfactant properties , but is rather an easily read and well set out account of what is commercially available . |
| 28 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
| 29 | And the Western experience of sex , he argues , is not the inhibition of discourse , is not describable as a regime of silence , but is rather a constant , and historically changing , deployment of discourses on sex , and this ever-expanding discursive explosion is part of a complex growth of control over individuals through the apparatus of sexuality . |
| 30 | Any feeling of insecurity in the reader 's mind concerning this dual interpretation of unc is not so much due to the perversity of the author but is rather due to the dual role that the public at large expects x to play . |