Example sentences of "but it is the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 2 | The , the report addresses the past and current G M B policy but it is the future needs of our members that we must plan for . |
| 3 | No doubt , Dej 's cronies had enjoyed access to the small pleasures of life which were increasingly denied to their subjects by the impact of their own economic policies , but it is the tawdry nature of men like the Minister of the Interior , Tudor Postelnicu , which is so unattractive . |
| 4 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 5 | But it is the real powerbrokers , the businessmen and the politicians , who top the honours list and take their pay offs in peerages . |
| 6 | Similarly , the universe may not be in the state defined by a sum over nonsingular histories , but it is the only state in which science could predict how the universe should be . |
| 7 | It wo n't do any good but it is the only way that I can reply to your last love letter or apologize for that cruel punch at your face . |
| 8 | This does feel a bit like you are trying to blow your eyeballs out of your ears , but it is the only way to avoid disaster . |
| 9 | " But it is the only way to save the country . |
| 10 | The scattering of maps is random and often difficult to read , but it is the only catalogue to illustrate a Chacmool in the supine position with head turned that impressed Henry Moore . |
| 11 | In a way the proposal that the state of the universe is determined by a sum over only nonsingular histories is like the drunk looking for his key under the lamp-post : It may not be where he lost it , but it is the only place where he might find it . |
| 12 | But it is the actual icon that amplifies this condition when we are in close proximity to its form . |
| 13 | There is some truth to this , but it is the other qualities of cigarettes — addictiveness , historic price inelasticity and unusually high levels of brand loyalty — that make price cutting by Philip Morris , and subsequently by its main rival RJR , such a stark symbol of change . |
| 14 | Both the silver and golden orfe make good pond fish , but it is the golden kind that is most frequently encountered . |
| 15 | The CNAA , in the words of one commentator in 1971 , was far from perfect , ‘ but it is the best procedure for devising innovative courses we have found so far ’ . |
| 16 | But it is the enclosing mountains that are the most impressive and arresting features of the glen . |
| 17 | The blue chip authors are holding their own , but it is the new authors who are really struggling in the current climate . |
| 18 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 19 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 20 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 21 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 22 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 23 | But it is the one part of the European Community 's I 992 single-market programme that stirs real passions . |
| 24 | ONE ELEGANT RELIC hardly describes the superb first prize that awaits the winner of our April competition but it is the correct answer to the anagram posed and wins that same prize for Lesley Allen of Hartshill , Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 25 | But it is the specific duty of public health doctors to ensure that the entire medical profession and those whom medical practitioners work with and seek or need to influence ( including health authorities ) are working towards improving the public health . |
| 26 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |
| 27 | By conventional standards , it is true , the inconclusive ending is a cheat , but it is the right ending nonetheless . |
| 28 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 29 | But it is the sad worldliness of the backstage banter which makes this play so interesting . |
| 30 | But it is the immaculate artistry of Michael Crawford and Frances Cuka that makes us care . |