Example sentences of "but [conj] it be [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drills which elicit repetition , substitution , and so on , but where it is possible to form sentences without understanding them . |
| 2 | Assuming a reasonable sum of money is available , I believe that , in general , coverage is the first priority , but that it is reasonable to start preferring frequency once coverage tops about 65 per cent of a ‘ difficult ’ target audience or 75–80 per cent of an ‘ easy ’ one . |
| 3 | It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem . |
| 4 | Again , the precise effects of British imperial domination are inevitably matters of dispute ( Kumar and Desai , 1983 ) and it is important to emphasize that the claim here is not that the level of present development of the regions of the Third World in question is simply the outcome of their colonial experience , but that it is difficult to understand the nature of this underdevelopment and the continuing exploitation of these countries within the international economic order without a grasp of the imperial impact . |
| 5 | That is not to suggest that the gonococcus is not present at these different sites but that it is difficult to identify microscopically . |
| 6 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 7 | But although it is easy to write fine-sounding words about the vision which should inspire community care services , it is much more difficult to put them into practice . |
| 8 | When investing offspring , when investing offspring results in increased males stay together , but if it is possible to reach by deserting a partner , then the individual is likely to be erm you ca n't decide on based on potential opportunities made parental investment . |
| 9 | But if it is desirable to assign a property to an entity , then that will far more frequently , although not invariably , be needed precisely when the property is not an inherent quality of the entity in question ; further , this will especially be so when the property is tied to some particular event — hence the high incidence of present and past participles among postnominals . |
| 10 | The ‘ unit of desire ’ however , is admitted to be a presumption , but if it were possible to prove with scientific exactitude that it really existed then it would not be within the province of religion at all , but of science . |
| 11 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 12 | you see if it was a fine stand crop you could cut quite a bit but if it was all raffled it took a while . |
| 13 | But if it was difficult to keep racism on it , it was impossible to even breathe the word heterosexism . |
| 14 | But unless it is possible to escape being moved from other viewpoints , our selfishness can not perfect itself to its theoretical absolute except in such circumstances as a tooth-and-claw fight for survival . |
| 15 | A Plec is not recommended , not because of any effect on the mating , but because it is likely to polish off the eggs at night . |
| 16 | In infections with adult worms , the eggs will be found in faeces , but since it is difficult to distinguish these from Heterakis eggs , confirmation must be made by post-mortemm examination of a casualty when the large white worms will be found . |
| 17 | The daily combat practice sessions were starting to have an interesting effect on Alexei 's ability to control his temper , but since it was essential to beat him every time , they were also very hard work . |
| 18 | Thinking and fantasizing seem to have constituted the majority of Foulkes 's and Vogel 's subjects ' reports , but while it is possible to make fine distinctions between levels of sleep depth using EEG/ EOG measures , these did not seem to be very predictive of the quality of experience reported . |
| 19 | But while it is impossible to overstress the importance of Cézanne in the emergence of Cubism , it is wrong to see even the earliest Cubist painting simply as a direct continuation of him . |
| 20 | The question to be answered is not whether the deprave-and-corrupt test is necessary in a modern society — that has now been conceded — but whether it is sufficient to catch the full range of material which ‘ the protection of health and morals ’ requires ? |
| 21 | Jacobs and Kinsella makes it clear that the consideration which courts must now take into account is not whether a custodial sentence was necessary to protect the public from offenders generally of the same type , but whether it was necessary to protect the public from a particular offender . |