Example sentences of "but [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing is simply given and immediate . |
| 2 | But no-one 's ever put me under pressure . |
| 3 | ‘ But everyone is just trying to cope the best way they can with the injuries before them . |
| 4 | , but someone 's already told him . |
| 5 | , but someone 's already told him . |
| 6 | I do n't know how you all managed to worm your way into our confidence , but someone 's already taken care of one of your friends , and the other will be lucky if he lives until his trial . ’ |
| 7 | and the best thing is that nobody 's doing it , everybody 's doing cabaret spots along the line jokes and stuff like that , but nobody 's not doing cabaret spots with trumpets |
| 8 | And he has a son , but nobody 's ever seen him ! |
| 9 | Well no , no , erm but would n't know if you saw one , you people only tell us but , but nobody 's ever seen a ghost in there so |
| 10 | I could , I , but nobody 's ever suggested that before . |
| 11 | I do not believe those powers would be of use My Lords I er take the view that they would not have been abused by past Home Secretaries , no not by men like the late Tutor Reed or the Noble Lord Jenkins or the Noble Lord Callaghan , they would not be abused today by my Right Honourable Friend Mr Howard , I doubt if they would be abused by Mr Blair should he at some time become Home Secretary and I think we 're becoming slightly attached to an artificial argument that somehow or the other there is great respect for the local authorities , but which is not extended to the National Institutions of Government and to the Home Office and the Home Secretary . |
| 12 | A significant variance could be defined as one amounting to more than a given percentage of the budget but which is not explained by the general level of prices , i.e. inflation or deflation . |
| 13 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 14 | In the language of sociobiology , " kinship " , outside the immediate bond of mother/infant and , perhaps , sibling/sibling , is a biological relationship which may be discovered by the research worker but which is not known to the actors in the scenario under observation . |
| 15 | However , there are other less ambitious examples of the kind of information which the accounts could provide about inputs but which is not provided by cash flow accounting . |
| 16 | These give us further grounds for thinking that there is some characteristic which is common to the postnominal attributives and to the predicative position of the adjective in a relative clause , but which is not found in the prenominal adjectives . |
| 17 | The next claim which constructivism makes is that centralsystem thinking emerges out of the organism 's interaction with the environment , an interaction that is initially a literal inter- action but which is later carried out internally , at least in the human case . |
| 18 | Roger Manvell 's The Film and the Public , published in 1955 , still held Brief Encounter in very high esteem , placing it in a chapter rather disingenuously called ‘ A miscellany of films ’ but which is clearly intended to signify a pantheon of cinematic greats . |
| 19 | This pattern has been repeated in Council Directive 92/56 on collective redundancies , which contains detailed extracts from three paragraphs of the Social Charter in its recitals , but which is again made under Article 100 , and therefore unanimously . |
| 20 | I believe that the Christian faith provides us with a unique perspective on matters of political economy which is not con fined to issues of personal honesty and motivation , but which is also related to the basic institutions and goals of our societies . |
| 21 | The letter it sends is to an attractive friend who goes about ‘ bagging birds ’ , and who belongs to a world in which the beautiful say yes to the beautiful and wildly misbehave , a world which is said to be ‘ described on Sundays only ’ , in papers like the News of the World — but which is also described in Take a girl like you . |
| 22 | Some people have an element of spirituality within the emotional aspects of life which should not be forgotten , but which is easily overlooked in a secular society . |
| 23 | Sub-optimality occurs when one department makes a decision which appears to be a good one , from the departmental point of view , but which is actually damaging to the organisation as a whole . |
| 24 | In other animals there is behaviour which benefits another individual , and moreover there is behaviour the end of which is to benefit another individual , in a sense of ‘ end ’ which requires a lot of work to make clear , but which is uncontentiously illustrated by behaviour the end of which is that the animal should take in food . |
| 25 | An office which is assiduous about publication and publicity , but which is often seen as outside the dialogues of current architectural concern in the USA , deserves a more judicious appraisal then it has received , here or elsewhere . |
| 26 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 27 | When I say we must accept " the general outline of Darwinian theory " I do not mean that we must accept the dogma of gradualism which Darwin felt to be crucial but which is now becoming increasingly suspect . |
| 28 | But somebody is n't telling the truth , Lewis . |
| 29 | ‘ Not only is she living thousands of miles away , in New York , but she 's also expecting twins any day now ! |
| 30 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |