Example sentences of "[is] [adj] but [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure shown in the drawing is stable but at the same time it is vulnerable . |
| 2 | on site time- keeping and sickness is low but at the end of the day when it comes to the middle of May then she ai n't gon na get a sh she ai n't gon na be employed anyway to be quite honest , unless she pulls her finger out . |
| 3 | This erm reaction to the disclosure I think 's exaggerated but on the other hand there 's something in it . |
| 4 | Siobhan 's bedroom is empty but for the pink carpet , a bed with a pink bedspread and a chest of drawers rattling vacantly from some obscure , whining wind . |
| 5 | The place is empty but for the bar and three or four slightly-built lads shooting pool without words . |
| 6 | You know , it 's funny but over the years I can always remember you saying : me , my , mine . |
| 7 | In the short run capital or plant capacity is fixed but in the long run it is variable . |
| 8 | did the Consultant have difficulty here I suggest but if one giver of strategy is demolished by public consultation then that 's fortunate but in the second demolish then your whole strategy tumbles down . |
| 9 | The language of the Sonata No. 3 is Schoenbergian but on a larger scale than anything Schoenberg wrote for solo piano : Krenek has a more obvious strain of Viennese lyricism , which serves him through all his style changes . |
| 10 | The Club atmosphere is casual but with an exciting dash of cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 11 | The difference is that Orton 's pastiche is comic but in a way which interrogates rather than presupposes the norm . |
| 12 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 13 | Theoretical understanding is necessary but in a series entitled ‘ Practical Social Work ’ there is more room for concrete examples of what constitutes both bad and good practice . |
| 14 | The oral shield is triangular but with a very prominent distal lobe giving the plate an arrow shape . |
| 15 | you are the reason why I left the school , you know , none of the girls are happy by their upper sixth , in the lower sixth you might think it 's alright but by the time |
| 16 | Erm , just picking little bits , I mean er , we when we say actually what it is erm , annual report do we say the annual report to parents , or is it annual report just I know that that 's minor but at the actual top what do we actually call the thing that we 're presenting ? |
| 17 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |