Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] is [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again it is not merely the experiencing of the occurrence of each of these events on a number of occasions which is expressed , but rather what is known about the persons referred to by the subjects of these sentences as the result of either experience or receiving information about them from some other source . |
| 2 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 3 | In this passage , in which the narrator is recalling his father 's days as a medium and healer , there are three segments which might be described as reformulations , but only one is presented as a correction . |
| 4 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 5 | But elsewhere she is seen to be ‘ black ’ in more than one sense . |
| 6 | But anyway she is arrested within hours of her arrival and successfully interrogated . |
| 7 | But still she is exploited by men — and a lot poorer . |
| 8 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 9 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 10 | Often Cerberus , the remotest and most difficult task , is made the climax , but here it is pushed into penultimate place by the local legend . |
| 11 | The development of 19C painting in Czechoslovakia follows that elsewhere in Europe , but here it is imbued with the same emergence of a national consciousness which can also be seen in literature and architecture . |
| 12 | A fairly conventional view — but here it is transformed by an argument that makes Caliban not merely the boar , minister of the lustful Venus — in contrast to Prospero , who , like Adonis , is tediously keen on chastity — but the hero of the piece , and indeed of the collected works . |
| 13 | But there it is dedicated to the struggle against apartheid . |
| 14 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |
| 15 | But unfortunately it is beset with many problems . |
| 16 | But ultimately it is lost in a quagmire of stylistic density and what could have been a startling book ends up feeling turgid . |
| 17 | Bleeding from these ulcers is often related to portal hypertension and may be controlled with an infusion of somatostatin , but occasionally it is related to arterial damage which will only respond to prompt surgical intervention . |