Example sentences of "but it [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is a pain that many families are having to live with as the number of those dying of AIDS increases . |
| 2 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 3 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 4 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 5 | But it is a struggle . |
| 6 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 7 | I thoroughly recommend it but it is a long route , so take a water bottle and a good look at the weather . |
| 8 | The assumption that the cultural achievements of the past are actually obsolete is more likely to be implied than so explicitly stated , but it is a logical implication of a progressivist concept of knowledge . |
| 9 | Arthur Golding 's translation of Ovid 's Metamorphoses may not yet be ‘ canonical ’ ; but it is a lot nearer to being so because Pound campaigned for it . |
| 10 | BARRY WEHMILLER International 's particular manufacturing niche of specialist packaging equipment may not be the most easily understood business but it is a profitable one . |
| 11 | ( LAUGH ) But it is a dead one . |
| 12 | All this thinking and doodling will have done nothing physically to change the view outside the window , but it is a vital part of the gardening process . |
| 13 | Mehew 's contribution probably surprised the scouts , who were almost certainly in Bath to watch Penrice and Nigel Martyn , but it is a fair reflection of his part in pushing Rovers into second place . |
| 14 | It may be tempting to regard today 's share price as a buying opportunity but it is a temptation which should be avoided given the uncertainties and high risk which the company still attracts . |
| 15 | But it is a powerful illusion , and attracts support from some of the best brains Cambodia has produced . |
| 16 | This is not — not yet — a crisis but it is a significant problem , reflected in the depressed state of northern club rugby , where Orrell carry the standard alone in the English First Division . |
| 17 | ‘ We are happy to do this but it is a struggle to meet our debt . |
| 18 | Within masculine sexuality the most significant other is the male — but it is a significance which presupposes , and is rehearsed in relation to , the female . |
| 19 | Pastiche is , like parody , the imitation of a peculiar or unique style , the wearing of a stylistic mask , speech in a dead language : but it is a neutral practice of mimicry , without parody 's ulterior motive , without the satirical impulse , without laughter , without that still latent feeling that there exists something normal compared to which what is being imitated is rather comic . |
| 20 | Some of the local hard cases delight in the sadistic pleasure of ousting strangers by continually watering the stones , Relief waits outside , but it is a masochistic type of relief — icy-fresh river water that is cold beyond belief . |
| 21 | True , he says , but it is a fine place for the smell . |
| 22 | There is some sense in this comment which may well explain the position of the Situationists at a particular conjunction , but it is a sense which would also explain earlier avant-garde trends in art ( if not cinema ) since , say , Futurism . |
| 23 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 24 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 25 | This ignoring of non-European high culture and history may not seem important , but it is a part of the same ethos which permits the everyday culture of Asian life to be stamped on so viciously in schools . |
| 26 | Tributes were largely unknown to Ford 's injected Cologne V6 , but it is a worthy enough trooper . |
| 27 | Technological advances might mean that we live in an artificial environment with respect to time-cues , but it is a rhythmic environment nevertheless , and our possession of a body clock means that all the advantages that come from the integration of biological and environmental rhythms apply equally to ourselves . |
| 28 | ‘ That is a terrible gift but it is a precious one . |
| 29 | But it is a serious ski place , for years housing the US Ski Racing Association 's head office , the heart of a fragile mountain area about 50 miles wide and 150 miles long with some of the best powder snow — when it does snow — anywhere . |
| 30 | But it is a judgment to be made by him and not by the courts , whose right and duty to intervene arises only if the decision is untenable in the sense that irrelevant matters were taken account of , relevant matters were not taken account of , or that the decision was manifestly wrong . |