Example sentences of "[pers pn] but [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were he among familiars it might help him but as it is he can not place himself here and it is pitiful to see how lost he is . |
| 2 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 3 | It may be soft and warm as you inhale it but once it is inside your body it becomes as hard and tough as the surface of that road . |
| 4 | ‘ If it is a great record I obviously wo n't let anyone else have it but if it is a record of David Gedge singing in the bath and only 13 people want to hear it , why bother putting it on RCA ? , ’ says Marshall . |
| 5 | Or he found us but but it is from the beginning , surely . |