Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When selecting the WordPerfect driver , the graphics print correctly but I am left with uninteresting fonts . |
| 2 | Oh it was heavy but I was used to heavy stuff on . |
| 3 | But I was occupied with other things and in any event not then wholly convinced of Meehan 's innocence . |
| 4 | I drift off to sleep smelling the sweet smell of the straw mattress , but I 'm woken by driving rain . |
| 5 | But I 'm reduced to verbal inanities , he thought . |
| 6 | Coach Keith Richardson has named his team but its being treated as classified information he wants to keep Northampton guessing … 007 has the day off but morese code from Kingsholm tells us skipper Ian Smith will be back in the team … |
| 7 | There are also a large number of agencies and bodies which are not actually part of central government departments but which are funded by central government and staffed by civil servants and which perform public functions : examples include the Equal Opportunities Commission , the Police Complaints Authority , the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and prison authorities . |
| 8 | NCM has now developed , with some help from my company , a domestic credit policy which follows traditional lines but which is written in plain English ( ie with little insurance jargon ) . |
| 9 | It does n't include the unregistered and unmeasured unemployed — women with men who have to maintain them or claim for them , and those whose dole is exhausted but who are disqualified from supplementary benefit because they live with wage-earners . ) |
| 10 | And more especially if you regard yourself as an artist of great but as yet undiscovered potential but who is forced by impecunious circumstances to provide the musical entertainment at wedding receptions in The Bronx . |
| 11 | We do n't do very good at reading and writing , but we 're made for physical things . ’ |
| 12 | Our truancy is defined by one fixed star , and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it : we may seize the moment , toss it around while the moments pass , a short dash here , an exploration there , but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact — that we , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , bearing a letter from one king to another , are taking Hamlet to England . |
| 13 | This does not stop us using the olfactory or tactile channels but we are restricted by social norms in how we use them . |
| 14 | In other words you 've got the trading account which is how 's trading , the committee account , the petty cash and the wages box are part and parcel of the trading but they 're kept as separate entities within the organization . |
| 15 | Piano clusters , multi-divided strings , glissandi in harps , in brass , in timpani , semi-aleatoric sections , players breathing through wind instruments : one ca n't list them all , but they 're packed with bewildering rapidity and truly remarkable skill into a comparatively small structural space . |
| 16 | Investment bonds we have n't covered , and they are a variation of a unit trust really , but they 're issued by live companies , and you can do other things with them , and they have got tax advantages . |
| 17 | but they 're bonded to different groupings so , for example , if one had something like this er , let's call that see three , page seven if I had something like that that central carbon there and when they draw these things at an exam paper , do n't expect it to be the central one . |
| 18 | Here , of course , weeds do have more space to grow , but they 're discouraged by constant cultivation . |
| 19 | In other parts of the world , the same needs arise but they are met by different structures . |
| 20 | The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle , only accessible by a network of sandy tracks . |
| 21 | ( Lighter fabric weights are quoted in the USA , but they are based on uncoated fabric , e.g. 1/2 or 3/4 oz/yd . ) |
| 22 | Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages , but they are utilized in different environments . |
| 23 | But they are recorded in full later , Chairman in the summary , I 've used the abbreviation |
| 24 | They are no longer sent up chimneys , but they are pressured into alien patterns of behaviour to line the pockets of unscrupulous publishers and to further the cause of revolution by stealth . |
| 25 | Heterosexual spread of HIV also occurs among injecting drug users and their sexual partners , but they are classified by drug-using behaviour alone . |
| 26 | It contains similar rhythmic elements , but they are used in different ways . |
| 27 | In an affected small bowel you will see the grey background with these tiny little curved rods present the whole area of the er , the villi is covered by the organisms which are er stuck down effectively by the processes which you ca , you ca n't really see them in the transmission micrograph , but they are attached to specific receptors on the surface of the entrocite membrane . |
| 28 | The branches that form the walls are light and springy but they are backed by stout tree trunks . |
| 29 | Field changes become increasingly difficult once Stage II is entered , but they are permitted in exceptional circumstances , for example , when the first school experience convinces an applied education student of the need to change to the education field . |
| 30 | The same person was involved in the development of each program but they were written in different computer languages , the first was written in EDL and the second , attempting to infiltrate the micro-computer market , was written in BASIC . |