Example sentences of "but [ex0] [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But there is at least one precedent . |
| 4 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 5 | So far in Freud 's argument we are only concerned with a descriptive statement , albeit one with many theoretical overtones , but there is at this point no assertion about the genesis of this hostility , or about the degree to which it is innate , or produced by the way humans are reared , or by the interaction of the two . |
| 6 | It 's very difficult to speak with any degree of accuracy , but there is at least 1,500 known viruses at large and this figure is increasing by around 100 per month . |
| 7 | But there is at least one larger pack on our trail . |
| 8 | Experimental evidence on both processes is patchy , but there is at least one impeccable candidate for a black hole formed by the first mechanism , namely Cygnus X-1 . |
| 9 | There is no intention to review the announcement on the Scottish regiments , but there is at least two years until the first amalgamations and the hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Scottish ones will take place at the end of the process . |
| 10 | But there is at least some chance of cooperation , in contrast to the absence of an obligation to plan together between higher education , sixth forms in secondary schools and colleges of further as well as tertiary education . |
| 11 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 12 | Inevitably many book sand much schoolwork was destroyed by the fire but there is at least some good news … the Holy Tinity pet gerbils were rescued and survived to tell the tale . |
| 13 | But there is at least some positive news . |
| 14 | Controversy rages , but there is at least agreement that the sensitive sites should be preserved . |
| 15 | For the cat to reason this out would require considerable mental agility , but there is of course a simpler explanation . |
| 16 | For example , this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England , but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul ! |
| 17 | The foregoing discussion has juxtaposed management and owner control , but there is of course a range of other influences that set limits to managerial autonomy . |
| 18 | Obviously many factors play a part , but there is over a twofold difference ( 179 v 364 per million ) between the worst and best served districts . |
| 19 | There is nothing authoritative about Greek , but there is about the New Testament which was written in Greek . |
| 20 | Accurate copies might be made , but there is in addition a category of interpretive copy , where the artist copies those elements which most appeal to him . |
| 21 | ‘ But there is in asking about Werner . ’ |
| 22 | Li Po is leaving the world of men for a far more perfect world but there is in his poem nonetheless the idea that he might have wanted both of these worlds , but he has lost one of them ; thus he is chastened . |
| 23 | But there is in us another level of being which lies deeper than knowing or acting , and it is at that further depth that the genuine religious impulse arises and lives . |
| 24 | Perhaps he was wearing his customary flat cap and voluminous raincoat , but there is in any case something highly appropriate about this scene of forlornness and dampness ; the picture of Eliot in a prospect of drizzle evokes a quality in the man himself . |
| 25 | But there is in fact a very interesting er story archaeological story which we can deduce from the outside of this building . |
| 26 | Editors have naturally concentrated on sources closest to Bach , but there is in the more peripheral ones a wealth of information about the origin and reworking of pieces , as well as performance practice ( notably fingerings and ornaments ) for which musical sources can shed light on specific details in a way more generalized literary documents rarely can ; and on the estimation of Bach 's music by his contemporaries and immediate successors . |
| 27 | But there is in total at the moment twenty five thousand pounds available . |
| 28 | Not only have many such parties appeared on the scene during the present century — the communist parties and anti-colonial parties such as the Indian National Congress — but there is in all socialist parties ( as well as in some right-wing parties , such as the fascist parties of the 1920s ) a persistent element of non-participating opposition . |
| 29 | But there 's at least one fantasy Prince ca n't or wo n't live out , one role he ca n't slip into with ease : the black pop statesman . |
| 30 | I 'll bide a wee while in your hospital , but there 's to be no cosseting , you 'll understand ! ’ |