Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These projects are still current and the main results of their work are unpublished but it is useful to present the aims of the projects . |
| 2 | ‘ Support for the monarchy has been strong but it is weakening . |
| 3 | The thing that really pisses me off is the hypocrisy — these guys all rant on about how they 're so shat upon because they 're black but it 's OK to shit on women . |
| 4 | They 're good but it 's just because they 're rough . |
| 5 | Cos I know what it is myself with I mean , they 're different ages but , and they 're independent but it 's wearing . |
| 6 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 7 | It 's supposed to be non-stick but it 's not . |
| 8 | Benazir Bhutto looks to be strong but it 's a coalition of convenience not conviction , in a country where politics follows the rules of war , opposition means nothing , winning is everything . |
| 9 | It may not be perfect but it 's 90% more perfect than no ‘ cat ’ at all . |
| 10 | ( No such lists can hope to be comprehensive but it is a pity that no reference is made to Geoffrey Beard 's indispensable and pioneering studies on decorative plasterwork in the Adam period . ) |
| 11 | It may be real but it is not the truth . ’ |
| 12 | The atmosphere may as they say be electric but it 's nothing compared with the nervous energy being generated in this box . |
| 13 | This may be unfortunate but it is the reason why the NIRC was bound to fail . |
| 14 | The positivist approach claims to be objective but it is no more ideology-free than any other . |
| 15 | Well that would be welcome but it 's fine , and it should be down to me to do it , but you are all welcome . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're keeping our fingers crossed she 's going to be okay but it 's a worry when she 's ill in that area . |
| 17 | It 's not it might be obvious but it 's not true . |
| 18 | it might be obvious but it 's not a good idea |
| 19 | This can be useful but it is limited . |
| 20 | You could just work these movements as given and all would be well but it is always better to understand why you are working the method and what is happening . |
| 21 | It may be complex but it is certainly not chaotic . |
| 22 | If there is suspicion of a Meckel 's diverticulum an isotope scan may be helpful but it is important to remember that this investigation carries a significant proportion of false negatives . |
| 23 | I told her I 'd be late but it 's already seven . ’ |
| 24 | The pattern may be complicated but it 's a darned sight easier than you . ’ |
| 25 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 26 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 27 | I 'm pleased but it 's not compensation for all of the trauma we have suffered or the money we have lost if we had invested it elsewhere . |
| 28 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
| 29 | European funding can be lavish but it is tied to cooperation with public bodies . |
| 30 | And for all the hoopla about NT one would think the thing would be multi-user but it 's not . |