Example sentences of "but it [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it is also part of that long revolt in more liberal climes against the dominance of the ‘ providing state ’ , along with the rise of the individual citizen consumer — Galbraith 's ‘ politics of comfort ’ .
2 The transfiguration ( Matthew 17 ) , recorded here in 2 Peter 1 : 16–18 , is of course a unique event , but it is also part of a pattern for Peter 's life which shows he was a man who was close to God .
3 On stage each of the Highwaymen does his greatest hits , but it is when Cash is growling Ring of Fire , Folsom Prison Blues , Ragged Old Flag and Boy Named Sue that the show really brings the house down .
4 But it is rather Sartre 's own text that seems to be caught between these two dialectical possibilities of expansion and compression in a double logic .
5 Kinnock 's early socialism may have made him unable to appeal beyond Labour 's natural constituency , but it is why people within that constituency have trusted him .
6 The Getter is a component added to control out-gassing , but it is not 100% effective .
7 It provides a check on the arithmetical accuracy of the double entry , but it is not proof that the transactions have been correctly recorded .
8 ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’
9 That there was no canopy may be part of why I say that if it 's raining the balcony is wet , but it is not part of what I say .
10 Learning is necessary ; but it is not part of what is meant by higher education .
11 But it is not man 's activities alone which can be held to account , for man is also a part of the natural ecosystem .
12 But it is not policies on Europe which will decide Jim 's vote but the ability of party leaders to get the best deal for Britain from the Continent .
13 Detail like this provides retrospective labelling , but it is not evidence about a historical period .
14 The text of Gloriana is finely literate , but it is not literature .
15 This is direct experience , but it is not drama — not until there is some pretence involved , some symbolic representation , some intention to make believe .
16 But it is not language nor , it would seem , will it ever be .
17 The candidates , all seven of them , are still canvassing hard but it is not conversions they really expect now , just promises to turn out and vote .
18 As violinist Mischa Elman said after recording an excerpt from Gounod 's Faust , ‘ it will do , but it is not Faust — it is Faust de-composed ! ’
19 But it is not Palomar 's regrets at not having cultivated ‘ precise nomenclature and classification ’ that concerns us here .
20 I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs .
21 But it is not confrontation itself which creates the tension in dramatic terms .
22 They prefer to be unlocked but it is not prison to them . ’
23 So , too , if you shift my bicycle from a public stand in order to get at your own , and forget to replace mine so that it is stolen by someone , that may be trespass , but it is not conversion .
24 If they freely abdicate that power , what they consent to may have popular support , but it is not democracy .
25 I believe one of the forms of philander does occur in the Rift Valley , but it is not nichollsi .
26 You have n't got to think of this in terms of finding the answer for all time , because the answer changes all the time , but what you have is a continued process of approximate answers , but it is n't chaos .
27 Freeing herself , Luce responded quietly , ‘ I 'm very sorry , Paul , but it is n't nonsense , and I do mean it . ’
28 I agree she has to learn , I agree she ca n't go on like this , but it is n't naughtiness .
29 Is he , did , he 's labelled this wrong anyway , he 's called this interviewed date for data fifty three , but it is n't interview data , it 's count data oh Wigan do you
30 But it is n't tea , either !
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