Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are well known but new technology brings new problems . |
| 2 | This is rarely done but consistency in outcome is important for dealing with social casualties who may need services at any time . |
| 3 | Our local representative will make every effort possible to allocate separate beds when this is particularly requested but it may on occasion be impossible . |
| 4 | The importance of this is often underestimated but it is essential that not only do you get applicants but applicants who genuinely fulfil your requirements . |
| 5 | This was well received but no one actually moved . |
| 6 | This was already happening but he felt neighbourhood help scheme could build on this current goodwill . |
| 7 | Off just a four pounds higher mark , he looks a value bet in a race where the top three are strongly fancied but look likely to struggle giving away so much weight . |
| 8 | Sometimes these are clearly stated but more often than not they are implicit in attitudes and actions . |
| 9 | These were hardly mentioned but underneath were not trivial . |
| 10 | The Annbank-Mauchline line which closed in 1984 was never lifted but merely mothballed . |
| 11 | Terms such as alternative , natural , unorthodox , or unconventional are closely related but not synonymous . |
| 12 | Consequently one 's own pleas and the sufferer 's promises may all be well meant but nonetheless all equally ineffective in controlling the longer term progression of addictive disease . |
| 13 | Our pH 16 values are normally 5 to 9 ; I look upon anything above pH 11½ to be bad — that 's from my experience in the laboratory that to get to a pH of 11 is easily done but to get to a pH of 12 you need a dam sight more alkali . |
| 14 | There were also 5 ( 6 were originally appointed but in 1988 a firm called Tullets dropped out ) ‘ inter-dealer brokers ’ . |
| 15 | I do n't know whether that is widely understood but I think it 's quite and important feature of our proposals . |
| 16 | That 's still going but er |
| 17 | I mean the one fear surely is that this is n't something which is happening on a , I was going to say a small local area , that 's perhaps exaggerating but it is in a at the moment in a confined locality , we know where it is , it 's not actually here and |
| 18 | The boundary between these two was carefully guarded but was not impassable . |
| 19 | Both were hard ridden but neither flinched , and throughout the final hundred yards Commanche Run kept just ahead of his persistent challenger to prevail by a neck . |
| 20 | Both were sumptuously decorated but the Hindenburg was the most luxurious . |