Example sentences of "but [pers pn] are [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We think it unlikely — at least , we have no evidence to suggest it ; but we are already well launched on a comprehensive review of that sector of the membership . ’ |
| 2 | It is our human duty and pleasure to understand the locust as a locust but we are equally morally compelled to find ways to control their self-destructive rampages . |
| 3 | ‘ The idea that we want to be deal-makers all the time is something I would n't subscribe to , ’ he says , then adds , ‘ but we are only just starting ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel local justice has been dispensed very successfully over the centuries but we are now increasingly facing the prospect , due entirely in my view to financial pressures , of seeing the closure of many local courts and everything being centralised elsewhere . |
| 5 | 's major customers have always been the well known supermarket chains , but we are now also selling to regional supermarkets under 's generic brands and to cash and carry 's . |
| 6 | Still , we have to this extent moved on , that not merely are we , in the context of this phenomenon , allowed to refer to the facts but we are actually now allowed to criticise those who suppress the facts . |
| 7 | But they are no longer flush with cash . |
| 8 | But they are also extremely limited in terms of our particular interests . |
| 9 | Goals are still identified but they are less well defined . |
| 10 | But they are almost certainly excluded by common law . |
| 11 | Official figures suggest reasonable growth rates — 5 per cent a year up to 1975 , declining to between 2 and 3 per cent now — but they are almost certainly exaggerated by up to 3 per cent . |
| 12 | We can rationalise and fight our way out , but they are often deeply hurt . |
| 13 | Community relations can be extremely important but they are very often relegated to the bottom of the list of PR activities . |
| 14 | The dicta in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders are not , of course , binding on us , but they are so closely linked to the ratio that we think it would be wrong to depart from them . |
| 15 | These may all be worthy aims , but they are so far removed from the reality of most house officers ' experiences as to be laughable . |
| 16 | No , but they are more frequently called upon to exercise it . |
| 17 | Parma ham with melon ( a little more calorie-costly — but they are usually providentially mean with the ham ) , do n't eat the ham fat 150 |
| 18 | We can represent the difference between the two as a cline , or continuum , with extreme cases at either end and a range of intermediate possibilities in between : Formal spoken discourse Conversation There are many polar opposites in discourse classification , but they are usually best represented in this way , as we shall see later . |
| 19 | If any adventurer enters , the Skeletons writhe around , snapping their slack jawbones eagerly , but they are too firmly manacled to escape . |
| 20 | Public sector higher education institutions ( such as polytechnics ) have a similar , though not identical hierarchy of posts , but they are too recently established to have acquired the more colourful historic positions and titles of the universities . |
| 21 | They may require elements of microbiology and chemical science as well as organisational ability but they are still generally regarded as unskilled work . |
| 22 | More advanced courses may include elements of document design , and a survey of available systems and technologies with a comparison of their capabilities , but they are still normally designed to teach specific skills and so may be considered as ‘ service ’ courses . |
| 23 | But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority , and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment . |
| 24 | And that , I mean I , I ca n't give you a but they are extremely well used , you can tell by the that 's been . |
| 25 | But they are fairly thickly spread , fairly closely to each other , it is my view that , quite frankly , the existing settlements should be protected to the extent of no new settlement being within w one mile of the vi existing village centre . |