Example sentences of "but [pron] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But everyone is on their best behaviour . |
| 2 | ‘ I hear a lot of talk about customers going diesel , but everyone is on the fence waiting to see what happens with the Conservatives ’ promised benefit-in-kind tax review . |
| 3 | How much support and practical help you will get from your local Social Services Department varies from area to area , but everyone is at least entitled to one third of a pint of free milk each day for each child you mind . |
| 4 | But everyone is in that position . ’ |
| 5 | But everyone is in a way , I mean I know I 'm being |
| 6 | But someone is onto you . |
| 7 | There is a story about Ribeira Brava which may or may not be true but which is worth the telling . |
| 8 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 9 | The managing director of Noble Bros in Fraserburgh , Ian Smith , was today closely monitoring the situation in Roscoff , where his firm sends up to two tons of fish daily , but which is at the heart of violent French protests . |
| 10 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 11 | Indirect discrimination against a married person is similar in concept to indirect sex discrimination and may arise when a condition or requirement is applied equally to married and unmarried persons of the same sex but which is in fact discriminatory in its effect on married persons . |
| 12 | The pithy violence of Shostakovich 's First Sonata does not come naturally to her , but she is at home in the limpid impressionism of Rachmaninov 's G major Prelude , which on its own makes this disc worth having . |
| 13 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
| 14 | The Goddess is alive and powerful and sentient , yes , but she is like blood , within us . |
| 15 | I was afraid for her , anxious all the time , but she is like a monkey when she is in the saddle . |
| 16 | But she is in fact in grave theological and spiritual error . |
| 17 | The curving shapes are there but she is in her Sunday best , positively dripping in spires , swags , pilasters , finials , and coats of arms , the better to proclaim her respectability and superiority . |
| 18 | ‘ She can hardly wait for you to get home , ’ Barney assured her hurriedly , ‘ but she is in bed with flu , nothing serious . ’ |
| 19 | I am looking thoughtful , but she is in no mood for meaningful gazes across the room . |
| 20 | Molly is aware that she has cancer but she is in great heart . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a high risk of her not surviving the transplant but she is in a hole now . |
| 22 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 23 | The agreement guarantees Kurds their safe return — but who is to be the guarantor of their long-term safety and freedom ? |
| 24 | ‘ But who is behind it ? ’ |
| 25 | What I really want is to meet someone who I can have a bit of fun with , but who is in it for the pleasure and does n't want paying . |
| 26 | But something is at work in the world . |
| 27 | We do n't name him but whoever is in a particular spot should be responsible for a certain area , which in in fundamentally it is done that in quite a number of instances but I mean one thing that springs to mind is that a lady shall clear the ladies toilets . |
| 28 | Searle ( 1984 , pp. 18–21 ) strongly supports the view that intentionality and consciousness are emergent properties , but there is at least one important difference between Searle 's account of emergent properties and the one I am advocating here . |
| 29 | But there is at least a hint in the Bill that in certain circumstances opted-out schools ( to be referred to as grant-maintained schools ) might receive extra funds from the DES : although in general such schools are to receive funding equivalent to that which they would have received from the LEA , Clause 67 ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) lay down that for certain ‘ special purposes ’ extra non-recurrent or recurrent grants may be forthcoming . |
| 30 | But there is at least one precedent . |