Example sentences of "[adj] but [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Victoria Wood said , if it 's in bad taste it 's not funny but if it 's funny it 's not in bad taste . ’ |
| 2 | We 're a school choir — if there are many youth choirs , who can draw from several schools around the area there then the chances of our getting anywhere are slim but if it 's large school choirs then I think we probably do stand a fair chance . |
| 3 | It 's probably pretty straightforward but as it 's close … ’ |
| 4 | That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark . |
| 5 | The suggestion that conventionalism reduces surprise must assume , then , not that surprise is unfair but that it is undesirable for some other reason : that it is inefficient , for example , or imposes unnecessary risks , or frightens people , or is otherwise not in the general interest . |
| 6 | Well I do n't mind , well I mean this is a horrible thing to say but I do n't necessarily mind people robbing from the rich but when it 's poor people robbing from the poor , it 's a really wank off , really wanky thing to do , you know , I just think it 's disgusting . |
| 7 | But I think you 've done very well , with just one little weak area round that but but it 's not easy to do , you 've got a very light background and you 've got a very dar presumably black body of the camera |
| 8 | If they said to us we 're not going to insure you because you have black people staying people staying it would be illegal but because it 's poor people they can dictate to us . |
| 9 | To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval . |
| 10 | I 've left the question of accessibility of the venue until last , not because it 's less important but because it 's one of the most important considerations and impinges on one of the most difficult tasks any event organiser has to face : getting the right number of the right people to come to it . |
| 11 | Part of the problem that we got back to when we looked over the issues is that what 's happening in the private sector is not just that it 's growing but that it 's very much in an unplanned fashion . |
| 12 | Detached objectivity in such matters is clearly very difficult but since it is quite evident that migrating birds and fish and even insects are often capable of solving the most intricate and unpredictable problems of solid geometry it hardly makes sense to argue that a purely mathematical rationality is an exclusively human characteristic . |
| 13 | If she 's not in the district that will be difficult but if it is possible if she 's in the district we order that she attends at transfer sessions the outgoing licensee . |
| 14 | ‘ poeticity ’ , he says , is like oil in cooking ; you can not have it on its own but when it is used with other food it is more than a mere addition . |
| 15 | A weakness in any of them does not mean that faith is illegitimate but that it is an easy prey for doubt , as later testing may show . |
| 16 | ‘ The cast is used to keep the leg immobile but when it 's removed , the unexercised muscles will already have started to waste . |