Example sentences of "but it [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , research in this area is not only clarifying the possible role of prerequisite abilities and environmental support , but it is also resulting in some very strong indications that infants are , to a remarkable degree , pre-adapted to the kinds of learning necessary for language acquisition ( for example , see Gleitman and Wanner 1982 ) . |
| 2 | But it is also beginning to realise that , unless it is careful , it could also face opposition from more unexpected quarters . |
| 3 | Not only is it pitting top provincial players against each other but it is also providing them with opportunities to play even tougher , more competitive rugby . |
| 4 | But it is also becoming apparent that the pricing power of brand-name companies is , in big measure , a myth . |
| 5 | It is by definition absurd , but it is also threatening to the stolid supremacy she exercises . |
| 6 | But it is also acquiring its partner 's stakes in an industrial development in Surrey , and a housing development in Ilford , Essex . |
| 7 | Its main use is as a riding/tool/brake vehicle on winter works trains , but it is also doing temporary duty as a tickets/sales vehicle at Bala on busy days in the season . |
| 8 | The legislation 's main aim is to safeguard research and storage of embryos , but it is also attempting to monitor a complex set of issues . |
| 9 | Privatisation might help fix some of the economy 's ills ; but it is already bringing problems as well . |
| 10 | That may sound extreme , but it is already happening in England , where market place education is rather further developed . |
| 11 | Racial awareness , in this matter as in the other , is not the school 's problem , but it is clearly troubling Mr Singh . |
| 12 | This policy is back in the desk drawer at the moment , but it is clearly going to be placed back on the table , since the government is even considering charging thirty pound a night for N H S beds . |
| 13 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 14 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 15 | Agriculture campaigner Robin Maynard said : ‘ £31 million over three years might build a few ornamental ponds in the countryside but it is hardly going to generate a major shift in agricultural policy from over-intensive agriculture to sustainable farming practice . ’ |
| 16 | You may not be actually using the previous stitch pattern this time around , but it is still taking up memory , whether you use it or not . |
| 17 | But it is still haggling over details . |
| 18 | But it is still approaching the problem from the wrong end . |
| 19 | The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders . |
| 20 | This practical definition is equally a political reality , but it is constantly changing , lacks precision and may be arbitrary : therefore it is not a useful definition to adopt . |
| 21 | Britain , of course , lagged behind the States , but it is now beginning to surface . |
| 22 | This has come to be regarded as normal but it is now looking rather transient . |
| 23 | Nicaragua 's health system was once described by the World Health Organisation as a ‘ model organisation in Latin America ’ , but it is now suffering the effects of austerity measures imposed by the country 's government . |
| 24 | This series started slowly , but it is now doing very well ; it would be a mistake to underestimate the potential of either of these titles . |
| 25 | Up to now , distribution has been via system integrators to the Federal and commercial markets , but it is now lowering retail prices for all its ViewStation FX Series of X terminals by 30% to 50% when it sells them direct . |
| 26 | But it is now becoming clear that the people who really shape fashion and move our society are young professional men and women in their late twenties , rather than teenagers . ’ |
| 27 | The plants lumped together under the umbrella name of herbs do not appear at first glance to be essential to maintain life , but it is now becoming apparent that this concept could be wrong , and that herbs are as necessary as oxygen , though the ingredients they contribute , such as minerals and vitamins , may only be found in minute quantities . |
| 28 | BT can afford to take a smaller profit , of course , but it is only doing that because it has been shamed into doing so by its customers . |
| 29 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 30 | But it is deeply revealing that in neither of these paintings are the revolutionary perspectival implications of the Demoiselles explored or developed , or indeed more than hinted at , and that in the Basel painting figures have been transformed into still life . |