Example sentences of "but [pron] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing is simply given and immediate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 12 | But she is well trained , and — ’ |
| 13 | At the slave auction there are many would-be buyers for Barbara , but she is eventually bought by the enigmatic Tavius , the keeper of the household at Nero 's court . |
| 14 | Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris . |
| 15 | But she is essentially faced with thinking out what she believes truth to be . |
| 16 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 17 | She seems gay at first but she is quickly transformed , after a short lovemaking , into a Spenserian crone . |
| 18 | But she is continually spotted out in the real world , so to speak , especially in the shops even though she looks nothing like her screen image . |
| 19 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 20 | ‘ She comes up here , throws herself at a man who may or may not be her brother , but who is undoubtedly mixed up in a very unsavoury episode in his country 's history , lets him persuade her to fool around with a very dangerous drug … |
| 21 | But something is still needed to explain Nietzsche 's willingness to commit himself so totally at this particular time ; and the November meeting , usually taken to be the cause , can not by itself have been sufficient . |
| 22 | But one is constantly struck by the author 's insatiable interest in the whole range of sculptural production , which refused to allow him to ignore the ceramics made under the influence of sculptors , the bronze door handles of the Hill Music Room or even the four terminal busts attached to the bookcase in the office of the Keeper of Antiquities . |
| 23 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 24 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 25 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 26 | Not only is he locked in a cage , but he is also treated as Tamburlaine 's ‘ footstool ’ . |
| 27 | But he is also expected to tackle the monarch over the damage done to Britain 's image by younger royals . |
| 28 | Ramaciotti is not just one of Europe 's finest car designers ( the stunning Mythos concept car was the result of his boyhood dreams ) but he is also considered one of the best analysts of design in the business . |
| 29 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 30 | But he is soon forced to the conclusion that in this case it is impossible to keep the aesthetic side entirely apart from the biographical . |