Example sentences of "[be] but it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 2 | My mum thinks I 'm having a great time , as I tell her that I am but it 's a lie , and it has n't got any better . |
| 3 | But surely it it 's happened that it 's getting er and and I touch wood I do n't know how superstitious you are but it 's getting better and better and better for you each time because when you came here ooh some years ago since you first came into this studio er you were pretty popular then but it seems to increase all the time does n't it ? |
| 4 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 5 | ‘ It might not be but it 's the godalmighty truth , ’ he asserted so playfully back that the whole table laughed . |
| 6 | Right , what we 're now going to do is incorporate that dummy variable as the regressor in our model as an explanatory variable , so what 's going to happen is that that dummy variable is turned off , alright in the first part of the sample right up until the war that dummy variable 's going to be off , right so it has a value of zero , right , then in nineteen forty through to nineteen forty five it 's switched on and what it 's going to do is to pick up any differential effects , right , in the intercept between wartime and peacetime right , we 'll talk a little bit more , more about that in a second , we 're going to add it in as a regressor , right , because it only comes on during the wartime it will pick up any shift in the intercept , right , that occurs due to the war if there is one , of course there may not be but it 's quite likely that there , there may well be , so if you type Q to come out of the data processing environment , go back to the action menu and test estimate forecast okay at the dialog box just add D one to your list of explanatory variables , alright then press the end key , right , yeah we 're gon na use the full sample right , we gon na use O L S , right you have now estimated the model with this dummy variable now just to see what 's happened to those coefficients the er incoming elasticity was at nought point six is now doubled right to one point one four more importantly , right , its T ratio has jumped from one point eight five right to six point eight , as a result , we now say that the incoming elasticity , the income coefficients , right , the significant zero , it 's important to explain the textiles as such the er , we are now getting a very different estimate for our |
| 7 | It was not known yesterday what the exact number of redundancies would be but it is hoped that they can be achieved voluntarily . |
| 8 | In reality , it may be but it is a weapon available to both parties to an action to force production of information which is not being produced voluntarily , or with sufficient speed . |
| 9 | Harrowing stuff with emotions , hormones and nerve ends aching , but for all the quality of the acting and the script , it does n't seem as moving as it ought to be but it is hard to define why not . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you what it 's a sound argument for the time being but it 's not a sound argument if we 're involved in a management buy out . |
| 11 | As the speaker indicated er , the C E C will not declare exactly what the intentions of the motions were but it 's now , er now it 's clear from the remarks of the speaker . |
| 12 | They were but it 's the recession and no-one 's building at the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ We all know he is but it 's better we keep it quiet . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It is but it 's not that sort of novel . ’ |
| 15 | That 's down in er Kent somewhere , I 've forgotten where it is but it 's down in Kent . |
| 16 | Possibly it is but it 's not a na proper signature , it 's a photocopied signature . |
| 17 | I 'm never sure Madam actually when is the right place is but it 's certainly not now , erm Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 18 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 19 | Yeah , which is but it 's still education |
| 20 | And er it 's summat sugar , I do n't know what it is but it 's electrician 's job and he asked me to post that , when did I post that ? |
| 21 | I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there . |
| 22 | I do n't know what century it is but it 's it 's a crazy attitude ! |
| 23 | That 's our penny , yeah there 's two R I du n no what it is but it 's full |
| 24 | I must point out about is n't just the Guild a lot of people think it is but it is a good focal point to find out what 's going on and meet people . |
| 25 | Well it 's but it 's it 's the modern shopping experience |
| 26 | Yo you may have seen it , but it 's but it 's a good'un ! |
| 27 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |
| 28 | So er then I wonder how much a weekly one was but it 's twenty one sixty a week |