Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] but it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't I do n't I do n't I do n't think I do n't think anybody is denying that but it 's clearly not worked . |
| 2 | Perhaps children will enjoy this but it 's not too appealing for the slightly mature PC audience . |
| 3 | Peter which on a map looks quicker but it is n't cos it 's a winding |
| 4 | you 've got erm three , three and a half percent say per annum , er plus erm a superbonus which is perhaps five percent of additional bonuses , so it looks better but it is n't really . |
| 5 | If you put Tina 's number plate on another car and visa versa that would throw , I I 'd probably look at it and think you know , oh somebody 's got a new car or that looks familiar but it 's not the right car so I would n't think about it . |
| 6 | It 's looking good but it 's down to us They 've convinced dealers that they have something worth selling … even in a recession . |
| 7 | It may sound interesting but it 's very dangerous . |
| 8 | It may sound impossible but it is not . |
| 9 | This may sound far-fetched but it is surely worth considering as a co-operative European venture . |
| 10 | All this may sound negative but it is more important to prepare for death than for any other event of life however much current thinking may sweep the subject under the carpet . |
| 11 | Bitter chocolate may be added to meat sauces for extra flavour — it sounds odd but it is very good and originates from a traditional Mexican dish of turkey cooked with very hot peppers , the chocolate being added to slightly sweeten and round the sauce . |
| 12 | An elderly lady , this weekend actually , i it sounds funny but it 's rather serious what she said actually . |
| 13 | It sounds simple but it is not , which is why for the time being Zurich seems to have stolen a march on its rivals . |
| 14 | This sounds easy but it 's not when faced with 10 mean faces all wanting to ‘ splat ’ you . |
| 15 | Getting better but it 's just this gritty thing in the back of my eye , I mean I |
| 16 | All this sounds complicated but it is n't . |
| 17 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 18 | He knows he is doing wrong but it is just that , in certain situations of moral dilemma he has to act in ways that involve violence . |
| 19 | Yeah I saw that but it 's not , they 're going quite quickly . |
| 20 | It 's alright if you keep busy but it 's when you stop and stand in n it ? |
| 21 | The first time Rachel went , I felt anxious but it 's so safe there 's no need to worry . |
| 22 | I suspect Age Concern do n't require that but it 's there , and they 're the sole user of it at the moment . |
| 23 | I did this but it 's not for a few weeks time for my presentation on Freud , or |
| 24 | This might seem naive but it is all too possible . |
| 25 | Status remains important but it is no longer the central feature of British society that it was in preceding centuries . |