Example sentences of "but [adv] it [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sonja helps me look after Marie , but mostly it 's me , cos Sonja 's pretty busy in the kitchen . |
| 2 | The appellants argued that their actions were not prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state , but rather it was their belief that their actions would be beneficial to the state . |
| 3 | We do n't know how he died , but presumably it was something he ate or drank . |
| 4 | Yeah , thank you Chairman just new development on the question of transport that 's been considered that people might be using the train more travelling to Europe than they had done previously I du n no if that has been considered Channel Tunnel , but perhaps it 's something that erm . |
| 5 | I have not discussed that with the others yet but perhaps it is something to put on the agenda for the future . |
| 6 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 7 | Normally there 's load down stairs but obviously it 's it works on the basis erm |
| 8 | I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her . |
| 9 | This is a traditional and most unfortunate highland practice but nevertheless it is something that is currently accepted by the church and I would hope that the convenor in drawing up , or the panel in drawing up the leaflet , would take account of this . |
| 10 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 11 | I appreciate obviously tonight we have are not not gon na carried today but nonetheless it is something that we believe in very firmly and I hope we have the opportunity to try and persuade you otherwise at some other time . |
| 12 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 13 | His sleeves were rolled up — which was what led me to make such an assumption — but really it was his hair that set the tone . |
| 14 | But really it was it years without . |
| 15 | But now it 's it 's highly professional which I 've come through the stages |
| 16 | But now it 's yours . |
| 17 | But now it 's my time in the sun , and that seems to mean that Oliver 's going to have less fun for a bit . |
| 18 | A lot of talking has been coming from Eubank 's camp and I 've kept quiet , but now it 's my turn . |
| 19 | ‘ And this was Christian 's Il-Quccija , but now it 's our private start to the Mnarja festival . |
| 20 | But now it was her waiting and more keen than Rab had ever been . |
| 21 | I 've played many neck-through-body instruments before and sustain has generally been very good , but here it is nothing short of remarkable . |
| 22 | It 's typically the number of subjects but sometimes it 's it 's not subjects all the way through , so it 's the number of paired scores . |
| 23 | But abroad it 's what you 've suddenly become ; |
| 24 | So but there it 's it 's a very interesting point there because a lot of our young boys now the Dow Holland Alan Munroes are riding more the American style . |
| 25 | Can you identify th that the point at which worrying about food , we 've all agreed we should n't be , but there it is we do , er pitches you into eating disorder and er I know ca , is is there preventive action to be taken apart from changing society completely ? |
| 26 | And that is that in the projections of housing requirements for the City of York , not Greater York but the City of York , the County Council have a figure of four thousand four hundred households extra , but propose a provision of only three thousand three hundred dwellings extra , that 's purely within York , and the question really therefore for the County Council is I had thought that their dwelling requirements , that their , sorry their their policy H One figure for York was what they thought the requirements were , but maybe it 's what they think the limited capacity is , and they are foreseeing an overspill of thousand odd from the city of York into Greater York . |
| 27 | And I think it would actually need , if it 's going to be taken on board , somebody appointed to look at this , or it be put in somebody 's job brief and I would have thought ideally that it would be placed with the community worker , and I do n't know quite how we 're placed for community workers in East Oxford , but maybe it 's something we could put to that department . |
| 28 | Tell you what , the only the thing hurts on me mate , I reckon I 'm I 'm doing this this time but but then it 's my shoulder . |
| 29 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 30 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |