Example sentences of "but [conj] [indef pn] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if everything is determined by the laws of science , then free will must be an illusion , and if we do n't have free will , what is the basis for our responsibility for our actions ? |
| 2 | er , Can I enter a plea for tolerance , if in a democracy it 's very easy to get steamed up about things you do n't like , things you find disgusting and revolting but if everyone is going to come forward , have banned the activity they do n't like then we 're going to live , it may be a democracy , but it 's going to be a narrowed , er and intolerant society in which we live . |
| 3 | But if one is dealing with anything other than empirical knowledge of this kind — if , in short , one does not personally know in the sense just explained — the only honest thing one can say is that one does not know . |
| 4 | But if one is to allow counting at all in a literary context , it seems perverse to insist that counting should stop at the number one and go no further . |
| 5 | I repeat that they are part of a dissenting judgment but if one is to consider what principle of law is to be applied in an area where there is no direct authority of your Lordships ' House , it is relevant to have regard to them . |
| 6 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 7 | But if someone is accused of a crime and then it is proved that the accuser is lying , the accuser is immediately killed . |
| 8 | I do n't mind going on me own but if anyone is going it 'd be good to meet up . |
| 9 | It is important to have someone trustworthy to talk to , but if anyone is told control of the information may be lost . |
| 10 | This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another . |
| 11 | There 's much talk of a bonding scheme after collapse , just the latest in a recent series , but whether anything is done remains to be seen . |
| 12 | But when one is dealing with associative use , we have to do with a binary distinction ; the adjective is introduced solely to indicate that its property , even though applicable to some other entity , is associated with the entity of its noun phrase , and here there are only two possible states — either the property is associated , in the view of the speaker , or it is not ( and of course by a slightly curious consequence of the communicational process , the state must always be the positive one , since if the property were not felt to be associated with that entity and needed for identification , then the adjective which designates that property would simply not appear ) . |
| 13 | I can accept a wrong note from an orchestra but when everything is getting faster or slower , that I can not accept . |
| 14 | But when anyone is beset by such evil power as this , nothing can save him but Jesus Christ : this I firmly believe . ’ |