Example sentences of "but it be [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear what this means , but it is possible today to observe mid-front values of /a/ before all or most consonants in many rural west of Ireland dialects . |
| 2 | This is a separate offence from manslaughter , but it is relevant here because of its close links with diminished responsibility . |
| 3 | But it is mild today , ai n't it . |
| 4 | But it is useful anyway to speculate about possible findings and so some possible explanations ; the characters who use irony might be similar in type to Austen herself ( in class , gender , age ) ; or they might be the characters who function as heroes and heroines in the novels . |
| 5 | The authors also seem uncertain about the rationale for selecting acupuncture points ; they say that they used ‘ four common acupuncture points , ’ but it is unclear exactly which points these were . |
| 6 | Naive Prober was n't actually entered in Axelrod 's competition , but it is instructive nevertheless . |
| 7 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 8 | This whole matter was destined to create much controversy and is addressed further below , but it is necessary here to note that the problem was of concern to the Rapporteur , Mr. Taborda Ferreira of Portugal , who expressed his anxieties in his commentary on the preliminary draft . |
| 9 | More will be said about this in Chapter 2 , but it is necessary here to make a distinction between my comparisons and those which are associated with traditional case studies , including the case study material presented by Dickens et al . |
| 10 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 11 | Alida Thorne is a lonely woman , but it is easy enough to make an effort , to understand and accept and perhaps I have not tried . |
| 12 | A summary can hardly do justice to the corpus as a whole , but it is easy enough to point to the settlement 's principal weaknesses . |
| 13 | It is not exactly in the commercial heart of London 's China Town , but it is simple enough to find . |
| 14 | It may be that their meeting with the new people hastens change , but it is perceptible almost from the beginning . |
| 15 | Imports were almost exclusively from Germany , but it is obvious that much thought had been put into their acquisitions , for the next dog to be imported was Ossman v Frankofurtia in 1930 . |
| 16 | I move again and try to write some notes , but it is cold enough to freeze the ballpoint off my biro . |
| 17 | The insect head presents many morphological problems but it is convenient here to give a descriptive account of the head-capsule and cephalic appendages before discussing the more important theories of the segmental composition of this region . |
| 18 | Romeo and Juliet has slightly less good sound , but it is adequate enough to convey another highly dramatic , very expressive performance . |
| 19 | But it is poisonous so if I start smelling it I 'm going have to switch the cupboard on to suck the fumes away . |
| 20 | Tesco 's Baden Pinot Noir ( £3.99 ) has all the delightful gentle fruit flavours of the Pinot — soft strawberry and fresh pear — but it is assertive enough to boast a pretty deep colour and a nip of tannin . |
| 21 | But it is exciting too for another reason . |
| 22 | But it is valid also for the lexical domain . |
| 23 | This mausoleum was built to house her tomb but it is empty now . |
| 24 | But it is notable enough that the deal is worth 3.6 times the annual $125m sales value of these products . |
| 25 | In such cases the claimant 's doctor could be telephoned for the information but it is likely either Europ Assistance or H.O . |
| 26 | The contemporary evidence is fragmentary , but it is clear enough that the strike was the occasion for certain master printers to revive the idea of employing women . |
| 27 | But it is clear enough to anyone dealing in checks who thinks about the matter that it is in the public interest to deny collection in those circumstances . |
| 28 | This would certainly simplify equation ( 6.3 ) to yield : but it is clear intuitively that we can not completely fill the file , as the last available storage position would on average be half the file area away from the last record 's computed address . |
| 29 | The First World " War interrupted the process , but it is clear that much had been done by 1914 . |
| 30 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |