Example sentences of "but [adv] it [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the developed democracy there was pay for attending the Council , but ironically it is not attested before Thucydides ' account of how the oligarchs of 411 ( temporarily ) brought it to an end ( viii.69 ) . |
| 2 | Assertions can be signalled by writing " I would suggest " , or " I would argue " , but often it is just assumed that whatever you say is your suggestion or argument . |
| 3 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 4 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 5 | But now it 's gradually starting to improve again , and we 're hoping that this will continue . ’ |
| 6 | There is no cure for this , but fortunately it is usually found that such processes do not occur in some fraction of photoionization events , so that the observed spectrum contains at least some intensity in an unshifted line , accompanied by various ‘ satellites ’ corresponding to the energy loss processes . |
| 7 | It would take the length of a book to provide an adequate commentary on Brian Leith 's book , but fortunately it is hardly required . |
| 8 | The baton is frequently of use to soloists , who are not all musicians , and whose eye profitably follows the baton 's movements , especially in slow tempos , which are always the hardest to follow : but then it is not heard . |
| 9 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 10 | ‘ The stitches tweak now and then , but otherwise it 's not aching much . ’ |