Example sentences of "but it [be] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is good news for the insurance fraternity : the US government , which owns the satellite , did not bother to take out insurance on it . |
| 2 | But it is good practice for the tenant 's adviser to ensure that a right of entry is expressly conditional on the landlord making good any damage caused by his entry . |
| 3 | ‘ The division of persons into male and female is significant , but it is one category among many . ’ |
| 4 | Many of the techniques of exploratory data analysis require the repetition of procedures to converge on a fit that minimizes the residuals ; this can make the techniques rather laborious , but it is one side of the trade-off required to get methods of analysis which are resistant to outliers . |
| 5 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 6 | In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so . |
| 7 | If he did not know that , I do not mind him admitting it , but it is extraordinary ignorance on his part . |
| 8 | But it is neither fear of the Arabs , nor a belief in the impossibility of peace , that explains the attachment of Mr Shamir 's Likud Party to the West Bank . |
| 9 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 10 | If that were so , there would scarcely be a government in the last 100 years which could be regarded as legitimate , but it is those uses of power and law which seem to betray or which can only be reasonably explained by a contempt for or at least an impatience with the principles of limited government and a belief that the rightness of the policies to be executed excuse or justify the methods whereby they are executed . |
| 11 | But it is different strokes for different folks . |
| 12 | The railway lines to Prome and Mandalay are working again but it is hard work with only 1/5 of the number of pre-war engines , and only 1/3 of the goods wagons and hardly any of the passenger coaches . |
| 13 | . But it is this facility of er of you determining that an expense is , is generally for the business , therefore it can be claimed , so |
| 14 | These steps might , at first sight , appear unnecessary and bureaucratic but it is this flow of information between practitioners , even where there is a fee dispute , that enables the ‘ public interest ’ to be upheld . |
| 15 | It is legendary that actuarial training is rigorous and difficult , but it is this depth of training which enables actuaries to take on the responsibility of advising on the financing of future payments involving billions of pounds for insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 16 | If it were n't for Lennie , George could have had a peaceful life and have married someone but it is this power of ‘ deep-inside ’ love which kept them together . |
| 17 | In formal debates only one amendment may be before the meeting at any one time , but it is common practice in committees to allow several amendments to be moved , seconded and accepted . |
| 18 | Mark Ermler draws generally crisp and lively playing from the Covent Garden Orchestra , but it is uphill work with such a score , hardly helped by what is happening on stage . |
| 19 | Mark Ermler draws generally crisp and lively playing from the Covent Garden Orchestra , but it is uphill work with such a score , hardly helped by what is happening on stage . |
| 20 | The fizz , the pulse-beat , the moment slightly delayed … yes , that was good , but it 's all part of the job . |
| 21 | But it 's all part of the same jigsaw |
| 22 | But it 's all water off a duck 's back |
| 23 | But it 's all water under the bridge for this season and Linfield must now concentrate on bridging the gap between themselves and their Danish visitors . |
| 24 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 25 | My own view that Sun readers are n't stupid and that the general public is n't really a stupid erm but erm they enjoy reading it and they 're reading for the experience of reading , getting their views and are very almost like , have you ever seen processed cheese slabs , you know you can buy little pieces of cheese in little wrappers that stick on your bread or your butter or your rolls and the way the Sun , the Sun newspaper 's kind of like that , if you do n't wan na read thirty five pages in the Independent every day , enormous amount of news terrifically written , reported for the , for the most part , you could read the Sun at a quarter of the price , except that you do n't get all the news and you also get er a different political viewpoint but it 's one way of getting news in er |
| 26 | But it 's one way of distributing any money that the party wants to give to subsidize people so that everybody can benefit from it erm rather than means testing . |
| 27 | Now , they 're not too bad , the form tutors agreed the trouble is though I 've got one in English George which is not too far away one in science but it 's that end of science |
| 28 | They start with the tribal favourite ‘ Wipe It Away ’ , but it 's new songs like ‘ Hit On Me ’ which have started to attract attention in the States , where their label , Dali , are committed to breaking the band . |
| 29 | But it was , but it 's good news for Oxfordshire is n't it — Nigel back to Williams . |
| 30 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |