Example sentences of "but it [is] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 2 | To understand this point you should imagine ( or even actually perform ) your pronunciation of a sentence in a number of different ways : for example , if the sentence was ‘ I want to buy a new car ’ and you were to say it in the following ways : ‘ pleading ’ , ‘ angry ’ , ‘ sad ’ , ‘ happy ’ , ‘ proud ’ , it is certain that at least some of your performances will be different from some others , but it is also certain that the technique for analysing and transcribing intonation introduced earlier in the course will be found inadequate to represent the different things you do . |
| 3 | But it is also noticeable that Mackenzie wrote a much less dramatized description of his grandmother , ‘ a weird old lady ’ with penetrating eyes and a low voice ’ , who had only fallen a little less severely than her ex-husband , living as landlady in a poor alley with ‘ an old servant companion ’ in a house furnished with antiques . |
| 4 | Not only is it necessary organizationally to stretch others , but it is also necessary that we should stretch ourselves . |
| 5 | The failure to produce one is naturally laid at the door of the government which has progressively weakened regional strategic planning over the past ten years , but it is also undeniable that any large scale infrastructure programme would produce massive public opposition . |
| 6 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 7 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 8 | We envisage that the path would be mainly used for recreational cycling at weekends and by touring cyclists during the season , but it is also possible that a few commuters from Kirkliston would use it during the week . |
| 9 | But it is also possible that ( as he once hinted in a press conference ) he might have refused Marshall Aid rather than cave in to Anglo-American pressure on the German issue . |
| 10 | But it is also apparent that that totality is not completely known , nor is its future shape even presumed . |
| 11 | It is arguable that this is a practical necessity given limited time and resources , but it is also arguable that a discontinuity in teaching methods and learning experiences is likely to result . |
| 12 | It is reasonable to assume that the carer 's preference provides some part of the causal explanation ; but it is also likely that the carers ’ preferences were influenced by the severity of the sufferer 's condition , and by whether long-term institutional care was expected , already planned , or already known to be unlikely . |
| 13 | There is truth in this but it is also likely that , in a period which Eliot considered to be one of cultural decay before the onset of " barbarism " , he was genuinely sceptical about the importance or permanence of his work . |
| 14 | But it is also clear that within tight-knit units attributions can become destructive : you are given your role and you must play it out , the same role for the rest of your life . |
| 15 | But it is also clear that Denning started off with a presumption that everyone involved was innocent and that at some stage he had personal doubts as to whether this was indeed so . |
| 16 | But it is also clear that contrary to the pattern implied by rule 1 , lengthening and raising operate to some extent independently of each other . |
| 17 | The parallel between this theory and Matthew 's more general model of mammalian evolution is obvious enough — but it is also significant that throughout the previous century Asia had been regarded as the source from which successive waves of higher races had invaded Europe . |
| 18 | But it is also noteworthy that once the Suez adventure had been stopped how anxiously , if in the greatest secrecy , the Eisenhower administration set about trying to reverse the damage which had been inflicted upon the Atlantic alliance and upon Britain . |
| 19 | But it is also true that warrants to the security services may be renewed for six months at a time . |
| 20 | It may be that some hereditary peers are well worth a place , but it is also true that some who are not hereditary peers are equally deserving and it is hard to argue that they should not be considered on their merits on the same basis , with life peerages being conferred on those most suitable . |
| 21 | But it is also true that having a bank account marks higher rather than lower socio-economic groups . |
| 22 | ‘ But it is also true that he is an old family friend . ’ |
| 23 | It may be true that concepts and factual propositions are subject to change and have no consequences until engaged by someone 's mind , but it is also true that some transmission of knowing does take place , and that a facility with , or mastery of , those concepts and propositions is necessary to further development . |
| 24 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 25 | We do not disagree that the financial health of the NHS requires attention , but it is also true that the NHS is caught in a gridlock of unevaluated and inefficient practice in which most major policy decisions are still left to individual clinicians ; this situation requires urgent attention . |
| 26 | This is in part due to the fact that the program has an extremely intuitive use interface but it is also true that the program is essentially quite simple . |
| 27 | Genuine cannibalism has certainly been a characteristic of human culture in many different parts of the world at many different periods of history ; but it is also true that explorers , missionaries , and respected anthropologists have all , very frequently , given credence to stories about cannibalism which have no basis in any kind of evidence . |
| 28 | But it is also true that Rolle was in the habit of reworking old material with variations in different works and that the manuscript ascriptions to him suggest that there was no discomfort in seeing the Meditations as part of the Rolle canon in the late medieval period . |
| 29 | But it is also true that he describes this final state as one illumined so as " forto se by vnderstondyng whilk is god , and also gostly thynges with a soft swete brennand loue in hym " ( 8.282b. – 82 ) ; and in Mixed Life Rachel is also defined as " of bigynnynge is God , and bitokene liyf contemplatif " ( 30 – 1.342 – 3 ) . |
| 30 | One must conclude that such sources were available to the master potters , but it is also evident that peripheral factories were content merely to copy those more skilled in the art , with the crude results one must expect . |