Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] but it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electron microscopy may improve identification but it is not widely available , is expensive , and is limited by the need for specially fixed tissues when generally only formalin fixed tissues are available . |
| 2 | One intent of the review , says Nancy Maynard , an assistant director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , is to eliminate duplication but it is not likely to lead to a wholesale restructuring of agency missions . |
| 3 | linguistics may study language but it is not a study of meaning in language , rather of language that can be meaningful |
| 4 | Hoteliers constantly argue that Muzak encourages relaxation but it is certainly not to everyone 's taste . |
| 5 | it just comes and it just hurt , it feels like it 's going click but it 's not going click . |
| 6 | A woman can have Izzat but it is not her own — it is her husband 's or father 's . |
| 7 | You do n't have to have sand but it 's rather nice . |
| 8 | Not only does spinal stabilisation for early scoliosis in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy maintain sitting balance but it is also associated with a slower deterioration in lung function . |
| 9 | I do not know when this piece of nonsense first became currency but it is as prevalent as ever : a recent poll of literary luminaries in France placed Simenon in the category of most under-valued prose writers of this century . |
| 10 | Leclerc replied , ‘ What you say makes sense but it is not French policy . ’ |