Example sentences of "but it [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is Western Europe that will prove the toughest test for Europe 's biggest banks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Needs and wants are often similar , but it is good practice to assume there may be a distinction . |
| 4 | Such surveillance should not , of course , be thrust on unwilling recipients without good cause , but it is good practice to keep in touch and know how people are getting on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is certainly not a very edifying tale , but it is small fry compared with the massacre in Romania last weekend at Timisoara , and the further shootings reported to have taken place in Bucharest yesterday . |
| 7 | The guidance that I have referred to is , as it says , guidance to the court and to practitioners in every discipline , but it is authoritative guidance and valuable guidance which family proceedings courts should make clear that they have had regard to when they are arriving at or announcing their decision . |
| 8 | But it but it is typical M E symptom . |
| 9 | Again , that 's to some extent , it 's a grammatical convention , rather than a er a letter form convention , but it is extra letters . |
| 10 | Unless , of course , his next movie — in which Ms Hyams has a 12-second role , but it is early days and this might soon be substantially reduced — is above average . |
| 11 | But it is certain companies asking bankers to restructure loans will never return to former carefree days . |
| 12 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |
| 13 | But it is pupil-driven financing that really upsets the heads . |
| 14 | The concept is clear , but it is well-trodden territory . |
| 15 | But it is pure anachronism to suppose , as several recent writers on ‘ The Other Victorians ’ have done , that the official sexual morality of the age was mere window-dressing . |
| 16 | But it is pure silk encrusted with sequins and it did give Yul Brynner a regal air when he wore it in The King And I in 1956 . |
| 17 | But it is personal relationships that emerge as the primary focus of this biography . |
| 18 | Most visitors to this region concentrate on the coast but it is worthwhile heading inland where a large network of lanes provides some quiet cycling . |
| 19 | The terminology may seem strange , as all terminology does , but it is worthwhile remembering that driving a car or operating a stereo system also involves the use of terminology , which we take for granted . |
| 20 | Some time ago the topic of mains power supplies was covered in an Actually Doing It article , but it is worthwhile covering broadly the same ground again here . |
| 21 | If he did not know that , I do not mind him admitting it , but it is extraordinary ignorance on his part . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 24 | But it is wishful thinking to believe that these complementary methods could instantly and completely replace the use of animals . |
| 25 | This is just a whim but it is great fun . |
| 26 | But it is Golden Chip , drawn 24 of 24 , who is put forward as a very serious possibility should the lucky numbers be high . |
| 27 | Both Hallamshire and Queen 's are also represented in the final four of the women 's competition , but it is Long Road Cambridge who go into the semis as top seeds , with players of the calibre of Amanda Brown , a former Wightman Club player , and ex-Queen 's No. 2 Judy Rich — who appeared in last season 's inaugural women 's Grand finals for the London club — setting the pace . |
| 28 | But it is magnificent Martin Shaw who steals the glory as Sir Robert 's close friend , the philandering playboy Lord Goring . |
| 29 | But it is front-end charges that have the most impact and are most complex . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ My vote in Synod will be cast after careful consideration , but it is public knowledge that I 'm inclined to support the ordination of women to the priesthood . ’ |