Example sentences of "but [noun] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may no longer need to raise money to build hospitals , but money is certainly needed to support and build hospices for the terminally ill and for those areas of health care that the hard-pressed resources of the National Health Service do not reach . |
| 2 | Many organisations and individuals have entered the bidding ( including , with poetic justice , given our attitude towards their forest , a Brazilian ) , but Kluge is still keeping negotiations open with the consortium of conservation bodies attempting to purchase it . |
| 3 | It 's two years since President Ceaucescu was overthrown , but Romania is still struggling to overcome the legacy of decades of communist dictatorship . |
| 4 | This may be entered but progress is soon halted by a waterslide into a deep pool . |
| 5 | Often the first batch or two are lost , or eaten by the parents , for no obvious reason , but patience is usually rewarded , as practice usually makes perfect . |
| 6 | This attack on the king is part of a general condemnation by Boniface of the adulterous life of many Anglo-Saxons , but Aethelbald is also censured for his violation of the privileges of churches and monasteries , including the seizure of revenues , and violence done to monks and priests . |
| 7 | A heroin addict probably injects two or three times a day , but cocaine is often injected at regular 15-minute intervals until the drugs and the money have run out . |
| 8 | It may well take only a quarter of an hour to train a worker in the future but industry is also going to have to change how it treats that worker . |
| 9 | But bereavement is usually linked to the death of someone close , like our parents . |
| 10 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 11 | But flippancy is better suited to selling food — so unless you buckle down it 's back to the Fission Chips account for you . |
| 12 | The exact origins of the Viennese school of building are not known , but Stein is generally accepted as its most important precursor . |
| 13 | Three wheels on his ‘ wagon ’ — but Al 's still rolling along ! |
| 14 | But Willaert is well represented in Musica nova accomodata per cantar et sonar sopra organi et altri strumenti ( Venice , 1540 ) , and we also have a number of his three-part ricercari , notably eight in a collection of Fantasie et rechercari a tre voci accomodate da cantare et sonare per ogni instrumento ( Venice , 1549 ) , in which Rore is also represented . |
| 15 | Brazil has a heavy burden of international debt , which is a major contributor to its economic and health problems , but wealth is also characterised by striking internal divisions . |
| 16 | It would be wonderful , no doubt , if modern children were captivated by an Edwardian , very English sequel to Peter Pan , designed perhaps in the style of Arthur Rackham , but Spielberg is unashamedly trying to create a modern movie that will appeal to all colours and nationalities . |
| 17 | Financial details were not revealed , but IBM is now said to be ‘ one of the two largest investors ’ in the privately held firm . |
| 18 | But compensation is only granted if the adviser goes bust and is unable to pay back your money . |
| 19 | But ITV is already reshaping its schedules to build its peak-time ratings : investment in children 's programmes and single documentaries has been cut . |
| 20 | For many years Jack Charlton used him in midfield but McGrath is now expected to play out his international career in the back four . |
| 21 | The wall-rock olivine at the vein margins is unaltered , but orthopyroxene is partially replaced by a fine symplectite of diopside plus phlogopite , and in some places by K-rich amphibole . |
| 22 | But Palatine is already competing effectively against much larger operators , including Anglo-Welsh itself ! |
| 23 | But China is also protecting North Korea from the wrath of the United Nations Security Council . |
| 24 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |
| 25 | Neither procedure is commonly used , but taxation is hardly used at all , which is not surprising in view of the costs risk . |
| 26 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |
| 27 | Gaston and Mound may have to wait before the 750,000 insects can be handled , but IOPI is already building on the expertise of ILDIS , TROPICOS and the Australian Plant Census to create a system for the world 's 250,000 vascular plants . |
| 28 | But McGuigan is still fighting . |
| 29 | A spokesman from Hewlett Packard commented that this had caused SAP to lose out to Oracle in the UK : ‘ But SAP is now revising its R/3 marketing strategy ’ , he said . |
| 30 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |