Example sentences of "but on the [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But on the whole it 's humane and quick , ’ Small says . |
| 2 | In the last few years there has been a strong demand from Germany as well , but on the whole it has been a home breed rather than a traveller . |
| 3 | Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me . |
| 4 | But on the whole it seems true to say that the minors and the ladies were at their lord 's disposal , and that they had little chance of resisting what he did ; but that none the less the lords were limited by custom , and even a king would be expected to consult his counsellors when he disposed of an heiress , as Henry I promised to do in his coronation charter . |
| 5 | One of Mozart 's contemporaries summed up what were probably the feelings of many fellow-musicians on hearing the news of his death : it was , of course , a pity that such a great genius was dead , but on the whole it was a good thing for the others . |
| 6 | But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members . |
| 7 | This category of graded numerical sayings thus yields two more examples of the parallelism of greater precision , but on the whole it does not display the feature under consideration here . |
| 8 | To him the ground may be steep and rough but on the whole it is even ; and he can pick his direction easily from the top of his moving , six-foot tower . |
| 9 | It is arguable that this would be right ; but on the whole it seems to us that , whatever view is taken of the buyer 's moral duty , the law would be too strict if it made him guilty of theft . |
| 10 | She could always claim this was a break period , but on the whole it was easier if her movements remained unobserved . |
| 11 | It 's true that one or two of the authors are concerned to resist crude caricatures of pre-post-structuralist feminism , but on the whole it has become hard to defend . |
| 12 | Now it seems to me I accept difficulties f for , for some people , but on the whole it 's working quite well and to shuffle it all round again I think would irritate a large number of members and we 're irritated by the changes that you made earlier on and I would n't wish to bring any down on your your head for the |
| 13 | but on the whole it 's like |
| 14 | On one side , the corridor was walled , but on the other it was glass , and through it , Flora could see a very orderly garden with a pink blossomed tree in the middle , and a bird bath . |
| 15 | The way down on the eastern side , where I 'm bound , is not so steep , but on the other it 's a hard climb and a risky one . |
| 16 | Normally , CGA can resolve 640 by 200 but on the Zenith it runs at 640 by 400 , which gives nice looking text in Text mode . |
| 17 | We have excellent navigation equipment but on the day it is back to basics . |
| 18 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 19 | But on the television it says , it does n't do that . |