Example sentences of "[adj] but [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evaluation is still rudimentary but it is increasingly accepted that with services as massive and costly as those described we must develop techniques for measuring their impact and comparing the success and failure of different approaches . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got to be rated doubtful but I 'm still hoping , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Erm he , I think what he really must have had was er a sort of mild form of polio when he was young and he 'd got a shoulder , not completely paralysed but it was partially paralysed . |
| 4 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 5 | Some of the older films — the Don Giovanni , for instance — were interesting but they were badly edited . |
| 6 | Wallace was threatening and on that day he was aggressive and I thought played pretty well overall but he was often fouled by the Blackburn defence . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's ceremony was splendid but I was almost overcome before entering the room where we signed . |
| 8 | He 's known as a bit of a trouble-maker but he 's really helping and striving to make things work well . |
| 9 | Yes , he can continue at that level of a hundred and ninety but he 's obviously going to have to pay more , because he 's only paid for it for ten years , or he can reduce it down to the original amount . |
| 10 | The Arts : I may be odd but I 'm well informed |
| 11 | They will talk about salaries and things like that but they 're often paid , well , very remotely some of them , monthly now , and think that 's er heavenly or something . |
| 12 | I know that but I 'm only doing this as a favour , and I 've got ta really go out of my way to get this piece of wood . |
| 13 | So we 'd have that but she 's already cut them all up into twelfths so how many twelfths how many twelfths would we get each ? |
| 14 | This has come to be regarded as normal but it is now looking rather transient . |
| 15 | Animals bear no comparison , lacking this potential ; the care and protection due them is no less peremptory but it is dramatically limited in scope by their ‘ primitive ’ status . |
| 16 | 1993 itself will undoubtedly be equally as difficult a year in many ways at 1992 but we are better equipped now that new foundations have been laid for building an effective and successful engineering and construction consultancy business for the nineties . |
| 17 | I suppose fresh meat is better but you 're only suppose to keep a certain time anyway even in the freezer . |
| 18 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 19 | Well I suppose you 're erm er addressing some of those different aspects as it is but again y'know in a sense I 'm happy if you 're happy but I 'm just thinking of different ways of doing it |
| 20 | I am sure you already now that the WISE activities are important but I am just telling you all this in confirmation of your instincts … ’ |
| 21 | A plant you do n't water , it droops but it does not die/your collection of erotic images is considerable but it 's always happening to someone else . |
| 22 | Those thrills prompt you to come back for more but they 're often reinforced by a swirling hotch-potch of memories . |
| 23 | Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant , grim-faced and tight-lipped , to slog on alone . |
| 24 | then V will be You can write it as sine squared but I 'm just writing this way cos it it means more . |
| 25 | She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone . |
| 26 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 27 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 28 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 29 | The brood sizes have been steadily increasing but we are still waiting for out oldest fry to start reproducing . |
| 30 | The exact origins of what we recognize as apples are rather obscure but they are generally thought to come from the Caucasus Mountains in Asia Minor , near where seventeenth-century historians located the Garden of Eden . |