Example sentences of "but [pers pn] are [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would guess that most of you will have a meal this evening , but you are quite free to choose to go to bed hungry . |
| 2 | Yes , you can inflict a lot of casualties on an advancing foe , but you are extremely unlikely to stop him entirely . |
| 3 | However , I am out of mine on Thursday and Friday , but you are very welcome to telephone me a home over the weekend on , or on the same number on Monday the 26th of April . |
| 4 | ‘ You have a heart just like other men , but you are too proud to show it ! ’ |
| 5 | The seller wo n't admit to having noisy neighbours , but you are more likely to find out if you make further visits . |
| 6 | Marion , who has worked at the Tour for the past two years and recently took over as Membership Secretary , says : ‘ We are pleased that so many girls want to join our Tour , but we are also anxious to ensure that they have thought through all the consequences and they are sure that they want to be a professional . |
| 7 | Our Anniversary Sunday will be celebrated later this year , on 8th November , but we are particularly glad to have Rev. Brunton Scott , the previous pastor of this church , with us for the day . |
| 8 | ‘ But we are very sorry to lose some really fine actors . |
| 9 | ‘ There is no doubt of a recovery , but we are more likely to see a gentle climb rather than any sort of a boom , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Two and a half million pounds may sound a lot to run a profession of just over 7,000 practising barristers — but we are only able to hold that figure by reason of the hard work from our small but totally dedicated Secretariat , and by the voluntary work of many members of the profession . |
| 11 | But we are still unhappy to have lost our holiday for something that seemed out of our control . |
| 12 | But we are perfectly prepared to look at scientific evidence — we are not afraid of that . |
| 13 | We can be in danger of saying or feeling that bereavement is something that happens to everyone else , and that ‘ those people ’ need support , but we are perfectly able to manage on our own . |
| 14 | Er I think , I think that er our organic growth tends to be erm er er continuous and er as you know each year we 're spending erm substantial amounts er on that er we prefer organic growth to acquisitions because we avoid er premiums in the long run er frequently er organic growth is , is actually more profitable er but we are quite likely to make some acquisitions er if erm the right er strategic opportunities er are created . |
| 15 | Parts of these may still be in use or have ponds or marlpits in them , but they are generally easy to recognise . |
| 16 | They need flat water to perform well and on no account should they be taken into waves , since , not only are they difficult to manoeuvre well , but they are also liable to snap because of their length . |
| 17 | They are afraid to stay in in case their doors are kicked in , but they are also afraid to go out in case their homes are done in while they are out . |
| 18 | I think he 's got a whole metaphor going in this poem between wild animals and things that exist freely and are difficult to find and poems which are things that exist and have their own life but they are also difficult to find . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the real difficulty is not only that costs seem to be higher in areas of sparse population , but they are also likely to increase as depopulation occurs . |
| 20 | ‘ But they are well prepared to deal with fascist situations . ’ |
| 21 | But they are particularly easy to mark , but I suspect they give us a false sense of objectivity and I think we sometimes give the statistics a little bit too much weight . |
| 22 | Not only are these perfectly natural consequences of human consciousness , but they are utterly necessary to live a life of any depth whatsoever . |
| 23 | Judicious balances between all the multifarious factors are needed , but they are notoriously difficult to strike , and are even more so in international collaborative projects . |
| 24 | Notice that there are no formal links in any of the exchanges , but they are nevertheless easy to understand . |
| 25 | But they are nevertheless able to agree that it is sometimes possible to elaborate functional relations of the sort we have considered . |
| 26 | like those of the South American porcupines , but they are nevertheless difficult to remove and this particular lion faces a painful future . |
| 27 | But they are most unlikely to do so — and herein lies part of the explanation for Labour 's election defeat , and one of its greatest problems for the future . |
| 28 | ‘ But they are understandably reluctant to pay for research students , because they will probably go off and join the competition . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's obviously irritating and awkward for us that they have changed their minds , but they are perfectly entitled to do that ’ , explains George Gordon of the Old Masters department . |
| 30 | No , I 'm not a vegetarian and it wo n't make me one but they are perfectly entitled to push their views across through their records . |