Example sentences of "but it [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year . |
| 2 | There are no studies of the psychological state of IBS patients seen in primary care , but it is reasonable to assume that they represent an intermediate population . |
| 3 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
| 4 | The extent to which isolation of N gonorrhoeae is indicative of risk of HIV-1 infection is debatable , but it is reasonable to regard rectal gonorrhoea as a marker for high risk homosexual behaviour . |
| 5 | Of course no experience is self-authenticating , but it is reasonable to accept claims made on the basis of experience ( *b and c ) unless sufficient reason is produced ( *a ) for not doing so . |
| 6 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 7 | The impact upon investment appraisal will be left until chapter 6 , but it is appropriate to look at the effect upon costing here . |
| 8 | The growth in value and volume of overseas trade will be discussed in the next chapter , but it is appropriate to consider here the provision of shipping and of port facilities . |
| 9 | But it is rare to initiate the formal process . |
| 10 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 11 | Working class intellectuals have often come from the ranks of printers in the past , but it is rare to find one such who like Jean Henderson was a woman . |
| 12 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 13 | But it is illegal to import it , send it through the post or display it to the general public . |
| 14 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 15 | ‘ I know it 's a medium to long-term investment but it is good to see it growing in the meantime , ’ she says . |
| 16 | But it is good to have the board there |
| 17 | At £25,000 he wo n't be secreted under everybody 's egg cosy at breakfast on Easter morning , but it is good to know that the best is there if you can afford it . |
| 18 | But it is good to know they have experience of farming and intend to make it a proper home and keep cattle . |
| 19 | The first two types of educational computing in the list above are at the moment basically the province of such departments — but it is good to know that in many schools and colleges there are strong links with mathematics . |
| 20 | ‘ But it is good to know they are monitoring his progress . ’ |
| 21 | An allowance is made for this , but it is insufficient to pay for a school meal . |
| 22 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 23 | It may be impossible to draw up a fitness league table but it is possible to say that complexity has increased during evolution . |
| 24 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 25 | Deictic relations are egocentric , but it is possible to annul this relation by expressing a relatum different from the egocentric one . |
| 26 | ‘ Ideology is one thing , but it is possible to enjoy a visual impression without thinking of history . |
| 27 | But it is possible to dissect most crises and examine each component in turn . |
| 28 | The distinct lozenges of mud have gone , worn down by the weather , but it is possible to see their outlines in the dissolving walls . |
| 29 | Using the light microscope , one can not see individual synapses , but it is possible to stain individual neurons and analyse the structure of their dendrites , hence picking up possible changes . |
| 30 | But it is possible to assess the ratio of elements in geological samples , which have been present since the formation of the Earth four thousand million years ago . |