Example sentences of "[adj] but it [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 2 | ( There are no plans for national development of courses within batch 3 but it is hoped that resources will be available to allow SCOTVEC to support consortium development of courses ) . |
| 3 | Full details were not available but it was reported that it would be a balanced budget despite a doubling of general government expenditure to R 24,000,000 million ( about US$16,500 million at the floating rate ) . |
| 4 | The details of the talks were secret but it was thought that a UN discussion paper for reform of the army , a key FMLN demand , was on the agenda . |
| 5 | Persian values also made themselves felt at native satrapal courts : a recently published Greek verse inscription from Lycian Xanthos , put up by a local dynast , echoes Persian educational ideals ( ‘ riding , shooting and speaking the truth ’ , Hdt. i. 136 ) when it speaks of : The dynast in question is called Arbinas : he is certainly a Lycian but it is thought that the form of the name is Persian . |
| 6 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |