Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cotton paper used to be made with cotton rags but is now made from cotton linters , which refers to the second harvest from the cotton plant . |
| 2 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 3 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 4 | The girl has recovered from her wounds but is still taking tablets to sleep at night . |
| 5 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 6 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 7 | The landmark structure has been out of action for two years but is now expected to be back in service in July . |
| 8 | This not only helps to prevent heart attacks but is also used to aid the recovery of those who have already suffered them . |
| 9 | He missed the second half of last season after undergoing the latest in a series of knee operations but is now determined to improve on only 12 first-class wickets . |
| 10 | As far as the Channel Tunnel is concerned it has reluctantly accepted the need for on-train immigration checks but is still insisting that customs checks must be carried out at the terminals , against the advice of commercial interests who see such checks as detrimental to the ‘ user friendliness ’ of the Tunnel . |
| 11 | A look at this shy and distinctive creature which has lived in Britain for thousands of years and featured in many favourite stories but is rarely seen in its natural habitat . |
| 12 | Miss Riley served the Booksellers Association in many ways but is particularly remembered for her painstaking work on the Education Committee . |
| 13 | This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society . |
| 14 | It is particularly this aspect of BSL structure which not only creates the concentration of meaning in a few glosses but is frequently brought into use by deaf people . |
| 15 | Mr Sulzberger reckons his newspaper ‘ is slightly left of centre on social issues and slightly left of centre on economic issues but is rapidly becoming more conservative on everything . ’ |
| 16 | Social tension , as we shall see , is an assessment of social relations that springs readily to the lips of anthropologists but is rarely examined with much psychological sophistication , or even an awareness that it is a psychological phenomenon as well as a social one . |