Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just about gets away with it as a teenager in long shot and make-up , but mostly he is heard ( putting on a ‘ young ’ voice ) and not seen . |
| 2 | Again it is not merely the experiencing of the occurrence of each of these events on a number of occasions which is expressed , but rather what is known about the persons referred to by the subjects of these sentences as the result of either experience or receiving information about them from some other source . |
| 3 | At first , teachers will have to go through these stages quite carefully with the children , but eventually it is hoped that the children will become independent enough to use the system , or one like it , by themselves . |
| 4 | One of them is enclosed in the letters written by the same ship , another bill is sent overland to the factor or party to whom the goods are consigned , the third remaineth with the merchant , for his testimony against the master , if there were any occasion for loose dealing ; but especially it is kept for to serve in case of loss , to recover the value of the goods of the assurors that have undertaken to bear the adventure with you . |
| 5 | In this passage , in which the narrator is recalling his father 's days as a medium and healer , there are three segments which might be described as reformulations , but only one is presented as a correction . |
| 6 | Each pea has two factors controlling height , but only one is passed on to its offspring . |
| 7 | In life the tellin would have had two valves , but only one is preserved here . |
| 8 | I had three Red Bellied Piranhas , but only one is left , having eaten the others . |
| 9 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 10 | But elsewhere she is seen to be ‘ black ’ in more than one sense . |
| 11 | But anyway she is arrested within hours of her arrival and successfully interrogated . |
| 12 | CFCs are a fraction of the emissions of carbon dioxide but nevertheless it is estimated that , unless the Montreal Protocol is strengthened , CFCs will account for 13 per cent of global warming by 2030 . |
| 13 | But just what is considered too hairy in one society may be perfectly OK in another . |
| 14 | But still she is exploited by men — and a lot poorer . |
| 15 | Every immigrant family carries this sense of pain somewhere in its psyche , but often it is left to the women to hold the sense of pain and loss while the husbands and children find their way in the new world . |
| 16 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 17 | At one time only a few selected diseases were thought to have links with the sufferer 's state of mind , but now it is recognized that a whole range — from cancer to heart attack — may be brought on by worry and strain . |
| 18 | White never used to be a predominant Goshiki colour , but now it is realised that a snow-white base admirably sets off the other shades . |
| 19 | But now it is called the Isle of Fincara ; for we were not left to live there long in peace . |
| 20 | But now it is ended . |
| 21 | But now it is understood that annual sales have slipped to only about $30m — and accumulated losses at the subsidiary are put at as much as $10m . |
| 22 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 23 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 24 | The weight could be imposed exogenously , but here it is determined endogenously . |
| 25 | Often Cerberus , the remotest and most difficult task , is made the climax , but here it is pushed into penultimate place by the local legend . |
| 26 | The development of 19C painting in Czechoslovakia follows that elsewhere in Europe , but here it is imbued with the same emergence of a national consciousness which can also be seen in literature and architecture . |
| 27 | A fairly conventional view — but here it is transformed by an argument that makes Caliban not merely the boar , minister of the lustful Venus — in contrast to Prospero , who , like Adonis , is tediously keen on chastity — but the hero of the piece , and indeed of the collected works . |
| 28 | Usually the grant is paid to the applicant when the work is finished to the satisfaction of the council 's inspector , but sometimes it is agreed that the council will pay for it in instalments . |
| 29 | But there it is dedicated to the struggle against apartheid . |
| 30 | She 'd hate to be thought of as a seer , but maybe she is destined to be a figure like Morrissey or Ian Curtis , someone whose vision of adolescence comes to represent all our experience . |