Example sentences of "but it [be] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This may have been a reasonable starting assumption for the initial round of forecasts made in 1985 , but it is not adequate now . |
| 32 | But it is not only typical patterns of informal on-the-job training which are important , for there is also a congruence in aspects of formal police training ( on both aspects of training see Fielding 1984 , 1988a , b ) . |
| 33 | But it is not just bad weather which takes the gilt off the packed-lunch gingerbread . |
| 34 | But it is not sophisticated men and women that a good university tries to produce . |
| 35 | But it is not my intention to rehabilitate this theory , or to suggest that it is allegorically preferable to current theories of sexual difference . |
| 36 | Eccleshall 's argument is very neat , but it is not entirely convincing . |
| 37 | But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers . |
| 38 | But it is not just the strong smells of food , but the metaphorical smells of corruption and moral and social decay which are suggested by the inclusion of such items in his work . |
| 39 | The case for Merz , Pistoletto and Buren may be different , but it is not unreasonable to expect a rationale for the proclaimed indebtedness of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art to the Situationists . |
| 40 | The desire to create a pseudo-history of the movement 's afterlife may be good for business , and may have provided extra material for the book ( I refer to the Boston text , see pp. 10–13 ) but it is not in keeping with the purer aims of the Situationists outlined elsewhere in these and other texts . |
| 41 | A woman can have Izzat but it is not her own — it is her husband 's or father 's . |
| 42 | There is a rigid hierarchy but it is not just a sexual hierarchy . |
| 43 | But it is not enough to single out this or that Minister , or even the officials responsible . |
| 44 | It is true but it is not the full reason . |
| 45 | Hooliganism is more habitual and more fully developed in Britain than elsewhere , but it is not confined to Britain . |
| 46 | This large display ( right ) in a cool , fresh , green and white colour scheme , provides a central focal point for the table , but it is not so large that it obscures the guests ' view . |
| 47 | But it is not only the Sun which appears to orbit the Earth . |
| 48 | In environments in which there is little daily rhythmicity , the development of daily rhythms occurs ( see above ) but it is not quite normal insofar as the amplitudes ( sizes ) of the rhythms are likely to be less . |
| 49 | The sky is already a clear , broad blue but it is not yet warm enough to tempt the thin mist from the fields and hedges . |
| 50 | At first glance CHP seems inefficient — but it is not . |
| 51 | Hitchcock was triumphantly able to achieve this sort of synthesis , but it is not surprising that Woolf was suspicious of the highbrow values that were being propagated around this time , and decided to challenge their deployment on this film . |
| 52 | In view of the treatment handed out to previous women demonstrators , it also displays remarkable courage , but it is not an isolated act . |
| 53 | But it is not only the general practice units that are often mismanaged . |
| 54 | The OSF/1 Unix will also aim for high security ( B-1 level ) , but it is not now expected to appear before November 1990 . |
| 55 | But it is not just a question of Turks in Berlin or even Turks in West Germany . |
| 56 | But it is not so easy if you have a condition which is not susceptible to diagnosis and has no clear-cut signs or symptoms . |
| 57 | But it is not clear whether this will satisfy the committee . |
| 58 | Mr Ceausescu may have become somewhat more dictatorial in the past decade , but it is not a qualitative change . |
| 59 | But it is not . |
| 60 | But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days . |