Example sentences of "[noun pl] but it [is] " in BNC.

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1 It is difficult to give precise guidelines but it is now our practice to recommend that oral iron be given until the haemoglobion concentrations and red cell counts are normal , and that these are remeasured at about three monthly intervals for a year and further iron given as necessary .
2 ‘ There 's a lot of talk about success in waiting lists but it is not at all clear that there is any great benefit that 's arisen here . ’
3 Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know .
4 ‘ It may look a mess in them stables but it 's all in here , ’ Stanley said , pointing to his brain .
5 May I just say that the majority of people will care for their animals but it is those people who buy , we have s er cases where erm people will turn up on Christmas day and say to their elderly relative , We bought you a puppy .
6 Orc Boyz are powerful enough to be considered core units but it is doubly important to beef them up by including a powerful character .
7 Frame Technology Corp , San Jose warns that it will likely report a first quarter loss on revenues 15% to 20% below analysts ' expectations of $20.5m ; it did $770,000 net or $0.07 per share on $13.3m a year ago and says the shortfall is from the Frame North America distribution organisation ‘ which has experienced lower than expected sell-through ; ’ business projections are on target for Europe and OEM units but it is restructuring the North American sales organisation , establishing a separate sales division to focus on direct corporate sales .
8 This fish is similar to M. argenteus in many respects but it is a much deeper fish with more elongated dorsal and anal fins complimenting its extraordinary-deep body .
9 I 'm longing for kids but it 's not up to me .
10 yes you are His tail now when it 's down it 's still down between his legs but it 's li it 's limp is n't it ?
11 Bloody hurt it bruises , you sit on it and it does n't , I thought I might , I suppose after a while you 'll get blisters but it 's bruised , when you sit on the bloody thing .
12 ‘ Aah doubts but it 's the galloping consumption , ’ his mother had confided tearfully .
13 Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it .
14 Johnson is about to explain with lots of big words but it 's agreed he should shut up .
15 You will not have to record every tiny thing you eat or work out calories but it is important that each day you weigh yourself if you possibly can .
16 UNICEF yes , that 's a , another branch of the United Nations but it is , it does operate you 're quite right .
17 Erm one of those er that I 've got two er , points to make , one is to , to , there 's a recording somewhere going on er er it 's erm not anything really to do with er us , but we have agreed or someone 's agreed on our behalf but er the person can do the recordings but it 's er of an educational nature to er help students with their language , but er we shall be completely anonymous so if
18 The other one I mean , you 've got your three bedrooms but it 's in a hell of state !
19 Erm I do n't know that 's , this is not in any official stats books but it 's just my experience with students ' projects that if you get more than , there 's a sort of critical mass of about , about forty respondents and then you 're much more likely to start showing some interesting statistically significant findings for some reason , erm I do n't quite know why but er it 's one of life 's little mysteries but er so that 's usually if there 's a lot of numerical data what I 'd try and advise people to er to get .
20 The action will affect 107 schools but it is not clear how many have what the union regards as oversized classes .
21 This pessimism may have some truth given the present management approach within our schools but it is suggested here that if that managerial frame of reference was itself to be radically re-oriented , then teachers ' perceptions of their own professionality would also be powerfully affected and they may indeed come to feel that effective classroom activity was positively related to their performance in the wider school context .
22 There is no preference in the law between an adult or a child in the use of the available seat belts but it is safer for the adult to be restrained .
23 Inspection of Tei and Owen 's Tables I and 3 reveals that the laterality effect was greater for " same " trials but it is theoretically important to know whether there was any significant interaction between stimulus type and visual hemifield .
24 The SSPCA freely admits that feeding livestock on the hills runs contrary to the accepted practice in many hill farming areas but it is of the opinion that the time has come when a stand has to be made .
25 Nothing is known of its origins but it is engraved ‘ Reading 1892 ’ .
26 The ratio of the consumption of wood to steel varies considerably between different countries but it is not necessarily an index of the degree of industrialization or of technological advancement .
27 " Our legislation is copied by several countries but it is not effective because of an institutional weakness and , sometimes , lack of political will " , he declared .
28 ‘ In future there will be no access through these gardens but it is only two swims and the rest of the canal can be accessed via other routes .
29 Historical research often combines elements of both methodologies but it is useful to bear these idealised approaches in mind when considering the ways in which historians might wish archivists to select and preserve different types of electronic records .
30 Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod .
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