Example sentences of "but it is [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As space has diminished , our capacity to think ahead has expanded ; but it is when we are given time on the ball , and space to move , that our limitations are exposed . |
| 2 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 3 | But it is when it might be used as a springboard against similar action against a member of our own royal family . ’ |
| 4 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 5 | You think me strange but it is not I who is strange — it is the truth that you find strange . |
| 6 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 7 | Do , but it is n't it a nonsense to embark on two twenty million pound stadiums when , with a bit of thought and effort you could probably get away with one ? |
| 8 | Yeah it 's big enough for one but it is n't it big enough for two , that 's the one we went to see . |
| 9 | on , I thought it was this week but it is n't it 's the seventeenth , so I rang Steve and he said I better . |
| 10 | But it is n't you can also get white hot ! |
| 11 | ‘ Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade . |
| 12 | This is fashionably dismissed as a sentimental modern aberration , but it is how I read the figure . |
| 13 | ‘ I never thought I 'd feel that way about any woman , but it is how I feel about you . ’ |