Example sentences of "[adj] but it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is not clear but it is believed to be related to surface characteristics such as defect chemistry . |
| 2 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 3 | The basic professional stand against censorship is sound but it is weakened by inaction when opportunities arise to be decisive and it is further weakened by elements of the profession which seek to censor , while often interpreting this as positive discrimination . |
| 4 | They were from the North of England , working-class , unemployed but it was thought only temporarily . |
| 5 | He is only forty-two but it is feared he may have tuberculosis . |
| 6 | Now you 're alright , that 's everything should happen there but it is not physically impossible but it 's gon na put staff under a lot of stress and we 're gon na have to play the game of making it workable . |
| 7 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 8 | The ‘ inside ’ seems to be everything a person knows and hence the familiar was ego-centred but it was bounded by other members of the group following certain rules . |
| 9 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 10 | A number of different positions were taken there and nothing was clear-cut but it was paralleled by the story of Terry finding out that his wife , Sue 's baby is not ‘ his ’ . |
| 11 | No doubt this could be made more sophisticated but it was judged better to oblige the user to adjust the illumination . |
| 12 | Performance is not breathtaking but it 's going to be acceptable to most people . |
| 13 | They had a two year romance in the thirties but it was broken up by the war and the appearance of Rose 's first husband . |
| 14 | ‘ Support for the monarchy has been strong but it is weakening . |
| 15 | There 's a half-moon but it 's obscured ninety per cent of the time by a lot of low , fast-moving cloud producing occasional freezing gusts of rain . |
| 16 | And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like . |
| 17 | This can be useful but it is limited . |
| 18 | The interactivity does not in fact run very deep but it is pitched well to suit children 's interest levels and attention spans . |
| 19 | The thing that you do best , which is playing guitar and doing it on a level which is artistic and creative , not only is that challenging but it 's satisfying too … ’ |
| 20 | ( There are no plans for national development of courses within batch 3 but it is hoped that resources will be available to allow SCOTVEC to support consortium development of courses ) . |
| 21 | All schools would say caring was important but it is getting squeezed . ’ |
| 22 | I have n't really lost , in weight I have n't lost any more but it 's coming , my body 's |
| 23 | Cos I know what it is myself with I mean , they 're different ages but , and they 're independent but it 's wearing . |
| 24 | Full details were not available but it was reported that it would be a balanced budget despite a doubling of general government expenditure to R 24,000,000 million ( about US$16,500 million at the floating rate ) . |
| 25 | Her ascent was the first but it was marred by the loss of climbing partners Liliane and Maurice Barrard and two of her best friends , Wojciech Wröz and Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf . |
| 26 | European funding can be lavish but it is tied to cooperation with public bodies . |
| 27 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry I could n't stay longer but it was getting rather boring . ’ |
| 29 | The details of the talks were secret but it was thought that a UN discussion paper for reform of the army , a key FMLN demand , was on the agenda . |
| 30 | Erm so I mean this is this is never distressed but it 's beginning to look a bit ancient now . |