Example sentences of "but [subord] it be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 2 | We either ignore it , but if it 's done in public you feel threatened , or you feel that you are showing weakness if you just ignore it . |
| 3 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 4 | I would rather not have that on the subject reports but if it 's going to be on i for the sake of coherence the comments should be together . |
| 5 | Yeah but if it 's going to be shown to ultimately thousands of people and to last at least a couple of years , we should invest in it . |
| 6 | It might look good to turn up with such a grand vin , but if it 's opened on the night , even Mouton this young would be unpalatable , a horrid waste of money . |
| 7 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 8 | But if it is to do with relationship it needs witnesses . |
| 9 | The House of Lords Select Committee understood the provision to relate to development plans but if it is implemented in the UK ( and this depends somewhat on MAFF taking an unusually enlightened view ) it could pave the way for farm development plans incorporating conservation and agricultural measures . |
| 10 | But if it is regarded as a report that 's covered already . |
| 11 | But if it is to serve as the platform for a conclusion that something else and qualitatively different is required , something to place authority , at least in part , for the conduct of a business owned by others in the hands of employees , then by itself the statement is not strong enough to bear the weight of the proposition . |
| 12 | Explain to your customer that if your price is paid now or in one month that is one thing , but if it is paid in six months or more then that is another , that other thing being your costs of financing which come straight off your profit margin . |
| 13 | The animal half of the early embryo develops as a simple ball of cells — but if it is combined with cells from the vegetal pole a normal , but smaller embryo will develop . |
| 14 | The result is the same if the molecule is thought to occupy three-dimensional space , but if it is centred on a co-ordinate system both positive and negative contributions occur with equal probability . |
| 15 | Thus , if the ridge is removed from a very early bud only the humerus will develop ; but if it is removed at a later stage the radius and ulna and wrist will develop but the digits will be absent . |
| 16 | the design is based on squares , but if it were knitted without proportional adjustment , the whole thing would be incorrect and pulled out of shape . |
| 17 | ‘ Well ma'am , there 's some scraps of food left over and … it 's bold of me to say so … but if it was going to be wasted I know my cousins would feel the benefit . |
| 18 | Cnut 's absence had obviously seen unrest in the area , but unless it was connected with the return of the ætheling Eadwig ( date unknown , see above ) its nature is obscure . |
| 19 | The canon would be largely English , not for a priori nationalistic reasons , but because it is written in English , and until fairly recently most poetry written in English was also written in England , or at least , in the British Isles . |
| 20 | The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively . |
| 21 | But because it is happening in Africa it has received little attention . |
| 22 | At face value , this sketch of a German soldier would probably make about £20 , but because it 's signed by Adolf Hitler it may reach well over £1,000 when it 's auctioned in Gloucester next week . |
| 23 | Felt broke up in 1989 , not because of the usual tired catalogue of ‘ musical differences ’ or drug problems , but because it was written in the stars that they would break up . |
| 24 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 25 | Boy loved this letter not only because the man it had been sent to shared his new name , but because it was addressed by an older man to a lovelier , younger one . |
| 26 | The little owl excess is based on a very small sample size , but since it is observed for both incisors and molars it may be significant . |
| 27 | But since it was established in 1775 to serve as a printer to Edinburgh 's legal , banking and ecclesiastical communities P&W has developed a strong position in financial printing , providing it with a coverage that goes much wider than ‘ Sketch and describe an electronic circuit . ’ |
| 28 | But whether it is superseded by a new work or not , any book of a popular or educational nature which is clearly out of date should be considered for discard . |
| 29 | In the Vedic period the abstract idea of time was regarded as the fundamental principle of the universe , but whether it was made into a deity is uncertain . |
| 30 | She could n't stop shivering , but whether it was caused by cold or the strain of waiting until fitzAlan won free of the castle she did n't know . |