Example sentences of "[adj] but it [is] [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 This has come to be regarded as normal but it is now looking rather transient .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I doubt it 's true but it 's certainly worked .
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