Example sentences of "but it [is] [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 | But it is two goals down with a lot more to come — and that is a promise , ’ said Candlish . |
| 22 | There 's no doubt , of course , the big shows like Chelsea , Harrogate and Shrewsbury are evidence of the remarkable skill and ingenuity of our rose breeders and growers in producing something new , and assorted tribes of writers , scribes and newspaper correspondents vie with each other to find extravagant superlatives to describe them — but it is all delusion . |
| 23 | ‘ They have intellectual pretensions but it is all sham . |
| 24 | But it is one factor that is likely to influence the statistics . |
| 25 | Erm you know having said that , that clearly is is one factor , it 's an important factor in assessing the schemes but it is one factor and a number of other things such as the impact clearly of the routes themselves . |
| 26 | We have the gallery still running reasonably well but it is one man ten hours a week his experience is badly limited this marvellous free resource is no longer being called for . . |
| 27 | ‘ The division of persons into male and female is significant , but it is one category among many . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But it is one thing to thumb your nose at Mr Gorbachev over the Kremlin wall , as many thousands did in a demonstration in Moscow last weekend . |
| 30 | But it is one thing to say that the rich , orderly Swedes can put their energy house in order with a minimum of CO 2 . |