Example sentences of "but [pron] is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing is simply given and immediate . |
| 2 | I have fiddled about with bits of cork but nothing is really satisfactory . |
| 3 | I have fiddled about with bits of cork but nothing is really satisfactory . |
| 4 | The summer promised to be delicious , but nothing is ever perfect . |
| 5 | It was a good knock about but no-one is any the wiser at the end of it . |
| 6 | ‘ They say that he is very tall and very thin , but no-one is really sure , ’ I said . |
| 7 | ‘ But everyone is just trying to cope the best way they can with the injuries before them . |
| 8 | cos you 've got an opinion and you 're gon na stick to it but everyone is totally different , everyone 's got a totally different view on things . |
| 9 | Paul is a lawyer other lawyers love to hate , but his is only one of a number of Yorkshire law firms that are sending a chill down the back of the London legal establishment . |
| 10 | ‘ But yours is much better , Sister Dew , ’ said Sophia nobly . |
| 11 | but yours is much nicer . |
| 12 | He has made mistakes , but nobody is more committed to opening up Australia 's still-stuffy economy . |
| 13 | It is hard to put a value on a company which has large assets and turnover , but which is barely profitable , and it could be that BAe found the price it had to pay for Rover just too good to refuse . |
| 14 | But which is sadly out of place in today 's urban jungle . |
| 15 | Are they pieces of parent body that broke up and sent a special type of debris into a path crossing the orbit of the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago but which is no longer falling on the Earth ? |
| 16 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 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 | It is the whole complex of behaviour , thought and feeling , expressing itself in custom , in art , in political and social organisation , in religious structure and religious thought , which we can perceive most clearly as a whole in the less advanced societies , but which is equally present as the peculiar character of the most highly developed people or nation . |
| 19 | The 1360cc 85bhp all-alloy engine is free-revving yet willing in the mid range and , combined with a close-spaced , slick-shifting five-speed gearbox , makes for a car that loves to be driven hard but which is equally at home trickling through town . |
| 20 | If you are working in a classroom with a network , is there one workstation which the teacher uses at the start and end of the lesson , but which is otherwise unused ? |
| 21 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice . |
| 24 | What the model does not set out to capture , but which is clearly most important , is the small group interdependence of oligopolistic competition . |
| 25 | The concept takes its place with ‘ truth ’ and ‘ beauty ’ as an attribute which many may regard as an absolute , but which is finally dependant on its context . |
| 26 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Much of the difficulty stems from the ethos of individualism which is central to the contemporary Western society but which is notably absent from most of the societies which social anthropologists study . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The nationalism of national liberation thus includes , for the minority of the national group involved , a paradox : a loyalty to the idea of the national group which is most intense , emotional and committed , to the point of sacrificing one 's life , but which is also , on other criteria , quite shallow , apparently founded upon intellectually erroneous grounds . |