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 | The Arts : I may be odd but I 'm well informed |
| 10 | This has come to be regarded as normal but it is now looking rather transient . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the second last fence Crisp was still ten lengths to the good but he was clearly coming to the end of his tether . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant , grim-faced and tight-lipped , to slog on alone . |
| 17 | then V will be You can write it as sine squared but I 'm just writing this way cos it it means more . |
| 18 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 19 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 20 | Often , shops think they have good facilities for the disabled but they 're often used for other things . |
| 21 | The brood sizes have been steadily increasing but we are still waiting for out oldest fry to start reproducing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 24 | you know , thrash all night long on a Saturday night you 're gon na have fifty , sixty people who think it 's wonderful but you 're never gon na get more than fifty , sixty people . |
| 25 | When this happens they are not called male and female but they 're arbitrarily labelled plus and minus . |
| 26 | and I know it 's too close but I 'm still getting a good wash . |
| 27 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 28 | Inhibition of MAO-B is also of topical interest since this may prove to be the first manoeuvre that has slowed the progression of Parkinson 's disease ; the mechanism is uncertain but it was originally thought of because this approach blocked the toxicity of the selective dopaminergic poison , MPTP . |
| 29 | This is likely to be approximately 36–40 h post-hCG but it is best determined by experiment on the particular strain of mouse available . |
| 30 | Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris . |