Example sentences of "but [pron] is [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing is simply given and immediate . |
| 2 | An office which is assiduous about publication and publicity , but which is often seen as outside the dialogues of current architectural concern in the USA , deserves a more judicious appraisal then it has received , here or elsewhere . |
| 3 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 4 | On balance the evidence suggests that the Liberal decline began before the First World War , but there is no denying that the war speeded up this process . |
| 5 | Alex Ferguson might have doubts about his ability as a team player , but there is no denying that , when the mood takes him , Hughes can be a devastating striker . |
| 6 | But it is richly written and dramatically involving , well staged by Dallmeyer himself and designer Graham Proudfoot . |
| 7 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 8 | But it is also believed that such cellular circulation develops on smooth coasts with uniform offshore bottom topography . |
| 9 | Capitalism may be perceived as unfair , and needing reform , but it is also perceived as incapable of fundamental transformation . |
| 10 | But it is also emphasized that professional competence is not something that can or should be taken for granted , and that the intimate knowledge of the carer-counsellor can often be as useful as the most vaunted professional . |
| 11 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 12 | We have got to live with it , hopefully we can put barriers up but it is here to stay and it will get worse . |
| 13 | The National Trust is currently undertaking a structural survey which will reveal the full scale of the damage , but it is already known that extensive harm has been done to the brickwork , windows and terrace . |
| 14 | The significance of migrating larvae of S. vulgaris in natural cases of colic is difficult to assess , but it is generally recognised that where strongyle infections of horses are efficiently controlled the incidence of colic is markedly decreased . |
| 15 | There are no rules defining the distinction between runners and strips , but it is generally accepted that a runner is relatively large ( halfway or corridor size ) , whereas a strip is rarely more than . |
| 16 | Many diverse schools still come from Okinawa , but it is generally accepted that the mainstay of much of the karate that is practised in the world today is the original shotokan style , brought from Okinawa to Japan by karate 's modern-day founder and innovator , Gichin Funakoshi . |
| 17 | A clear waiver of subrogation rights issued by the insurers is obviously preferred , but it is generally accepted that the noting of interests will have the same effect , although there is no guarantee of this . |
| 18 | There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll . |
| 19 | The effect of the Sicilian experience on Yeats is disputed by Yeats scholars , but it is generally agreed that some effect there was . |
| 20 | This was an effective method of recognition , but it is generally agreed that the method works only for highly constrained tasks . |
| 21 | Some ‘ users ’ of the service are indeed patients in the conventional sense ; they have entrusted their mental problems to a psychiatrist in the same way as one might entrust one 's stomach problems to a gastroenterologist , but it is increasingly recognized that the model of conventional professional medicine is a poor framework for the provision of mental health services . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This is probably not necessary if the house is to be held by the husband and the wife as trustees upon the terms of a court order ( which will be sufficient evidence in itself ) , but it is strongly advised if the house is to be held by the husband and the wife as trustees upon the terms of an agreement reached between them . |
| 24 | But it is well known that the provision of advice services nationally is uneven and as the best.known generalist advice agency , the CAB feels that it would be failing the wider community if it did not consider what barriers may be preventing people from approaching a CAB for advice . |
| 25 | It is questionable whether the spaying of cows was widely practised at that time , but it is well known that London dairymen were only interested in a continuous milk supply . |
| 26 | But it is well known that there is a prejudice against awarding the bigger gongs to those who have fled England : especially for Switzerland . |
| 27 | It is still long-bodied , with a cylindrical shape on fairly short legs , but it is well muscled and potentially a good beef animal . |
| 28 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 29 | The basic two-way branching structure is always there , but it is easily smothered as lines cross and recross one another , making solid masses of colour ( only black and white in the printed pictures ) . |
| 30 | Self-promotion of that sort may be a matter for amused comment , but it is widely accepted that one may choose one 's Place in the pecking order , or try to , and that in Britain parentage does not irreversibly define class . |