Example sentences of "but is [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits . |
| 2 | She is , however , only two years old but is often mistaken as being older . |
| 3 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 4 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 5 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 6 | The novel opens with a page-long diatribe about the age of middlemen which appears to be the opinion of a third-person narrator but is subsequently identified as ‘ disloyal thoughts … not precisely verbalised as they turmoiled through the hazily discontented soul of Rusty Conway ’ ( 5–6 ) . |