Example sentences of "but [noun sg] [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 | This may be entered but progress is soon halted by a waterslide into a deep pool . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But bereavement is usually linked to the death of someone close , like our parents . |
| 7 | But flippancy is better suited to selling food — so unless you buckle down it 's back to the Fission Chips account for you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But compensation is only granted if the adviser goes bust and is unable to pay back your money . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Neither procedure is commonly used , but taxation is hardly used at all , which is not surprising in view of the costs risk . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For IDE drives , a cacheing controller can increase throughput by up to 50% , the average figure being around 30% , but efficiency is largely governed by the amount of RAM on the controller card , and its speed . |
| 15 | Vocational preparation is done in real situations in the community but use is also made of situations within schools to learn social and work skills . |
| 16 | Linear measurements may be given either in imperial or metric units , but area is normally quoted in square metres . |
| 17 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 18 | But government is indirectly involved as the provider of taxpayers ' money ; and through its duty to set standards for publicly and privately provided care . |
| 19 | Today elegans and livingstonii are still considered valid , but lanisticola is now regarded as a synonym of livingstonii , and ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ as possibly a further synonym of the same species . |
| 20 | A figure published by Platt 's for aggregate OPEC output for February was also 22.9 million b/d , but care is obviously needed before any attempt can be made to relate the two . |
| 21 | Illite overgrowths on grains , may not visibly decrease porosity — but permeability is severely restricted , especially if the illite is in the ‘ hairy ’ form . |
| 22 | The basis of the course is oral , but reading is gradually introduced . |
| 23 | There is a restaurant for lunch and dinner , but breakfast is generally served out on the terrace overlooking the sea . |
| 24 | Subsequent attempts to model this in terms of winds driven by Alfvén waves met with limited success , but interest is now developing in a theoretical approach involving reflection of Alfvén waves . |
| 25 | The work of Perry , with his stages of cognitive growth , is acknowledged within the research programme but justice is hardly done to it . |
| 26 | This is all very well in theory ; but disobedience is commonly reported by parents as a problem — in children of all ages . |