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Example sentences of "but [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	But no-one 's yet sure how it will handle .
6	But no-one 's ever put me under pressure .
7	It was a good knock about but no-one is any the wiser at the end of it .
8	‘ They say that he is very tall and very thin , but no-one is really sure , ’ I said .
9	‘ But everyone is just trying to cope the best way they can with the injuries before them .
10	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 .
11	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 .
12	‘ But yours is much better , Sister Dew , ’ said Sophia nobly .
13	but yours is much nicer .
14	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 . ’
15	, but someone 's already told him .
16	, but someone 's already told him .
17	He has made mistakes , but nobody is more committed to opening up Australia 's still-stuffy economy .
18	And he has a son , but nobody 's ever seen him !
19	I could , I , but nobody 's ever suggested that before .
20	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
21	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 .
22	But which is sadly out of place in today 's urban jungle .
23	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 ?
24	It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today .
25	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 .
26	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 .
27	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 .
28	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 ?
29	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 .
30	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 .