Example sentences of "but [conj] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concentrate on a particular activity or function that uses a variety of information types , but where it is considered that some improvement is needed . |
| 2 | For expositional reasons , we shall need to use the word utterance in various ways in this book , but where it is used to contrast with sentence it should be taken in the sense advocated by Bar-Hillel , as a sentence ( or sometimes string of sentences ) paired with a context . |
| 3 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 4 | But this rule is not so simple as at first sight it looks , for it means , not that priority is gained by registration , but that it is lost through failure to register . |
| 5 | Spinoza says that it is no mere accident that this is never so , but that it is built into the essential nature of human beings that they need these relations with others for the achievement of personal fulfilment . |
| 6 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 7 | Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’ |
| 8 | Evaluation is identified as the fourth and final style of the planning cycle but it is emphasised that evaluation is not simply something that comes as a ‘ big bang ’ at the end of the process , but that it is required throughout . |
| 9 | The editors ' underlying theme is that retirement needs to be viewed holistically ; that it is not simply an individual transition but that it is linked to a person 's past or context and , equally importantly , to their social networks , especially family relationships . |
| 10 | There is good evidence that this transmissible agent is a virus containing DNA but that it is embedded in a tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 11 | Its report , which appeared in September 1970 , recommended that the structure of the Dip.AD be left relatively unchanged but that it be supplemented by the introduction of four-year sandwich courses , ‘ directed more specifically towards certain categories of industrial and professional design practice ’ . |
| 12 | Again , in his biography of Molla Mustafa Sarukhani ( Ak Musli : d. 1016/1608 ) , Ata'i says that the subject , while in retirement from a 40-akce medrese , was in 994/1585–6 given the muftilik of Agras " with [ an ] stipulation and rank " is ambiguous , however , since it could conceivably mean not that the medrese was to be considered as but that it was given with the stipulation that the muderris should receive an medrese in due course ) . |
| 13 | The problem with the current rapid expansion of higher education was not that it was underfunded , but that it was taking place in the wrong subject areas , he said . |
| 14 | Earlier this month , a US District Court in Columbus awarded Reynolds £18 million compensation and said there was a ‘ substantial likelihood that the report of Reynolds 's drug use was not only false , but that it was disseminated with malice . ’ |
| 15 | For the drift of the argument was essentially that men did not assume leadership , but that it was granted to them according to criteria which took merit and experience , as well as birth and social standing , into consideration . |
| 16 | It is scarcely conceivable in the political climate of the time that the alternative would have been adopted as a matter of policy , but that it was avoided at the cost of serious reductions in the level of policing in much of the country suggests a conscious choice . |
| 17 | Peacock and Wiseman 's ‘ displacement theory ’ , covering the period 1890–1953 , suggested that public spending was not rising with the smooth , small changes predicted by Wagner , but that it was displaced ( permanently ) upwards by social upheavals associated , for instance , with depressions or wars leading to demands for new social expenditure ( Fig. 15.6 above indicates the displacements of 1914–18 and 1939–45 ) . |
| 18 | King Alfred brought it into his translation of Boethius too , to explain why divine Providence does not affect free will : ‘ What we call God 's fore-thought and his Providence ’ , he wrote , ‘ is while it is there in His mind , before it gets done , while it 's still being thought ; but once it 's done , then we call it wyrd . |
| 19 | There are manifest dangers in the way a relative norm is chosen , but once it is accepted that relative validity is all we can aim at these need not worry us unduly . |
| 20 | If this is not practical , you could try cooking a chicken to eat cold over several days ; but once it is cooked , divide it up into the meal portions you require , and place them in the freezer or refrigerator as appropriate . |
| 21 | u τ depends on the flow as a whole , but once it is specified , the structure of the wall region is specified . |
| 22 | But once it was asked , his whole character and political stance gave him little alternative but to say ‘ yes ’ . |
| 23 | But once it was understood that Europeans might hope to reach the fabled East by travelling West , then explorers could reasonably hope that before very long they would have mapped the whole surface of the globe . |
| 24 | Much work was needed to prepare enough radium to treat patients , but once it was made , it was a more convenient source of radiation than the apparatus , extremely primitive by modern standards , which produced X-rays from electric discharges . |
| 25 | Not only that , but once it was established that their corporal had an interest in me , every movement I made , almost every breath I drew , was reported back to him , including a very innocent ride I had one evening round the perimeter track in a jeep driven by one of the Flying Control Officers . |
| 26 | We either ignore it , but if it 's done in public you feel threatened , or you feel that you are showing weakness if you just ignore it . |
| 27 | But if it 's end it 's nearly always nearly always a C and a K. |
| 28 | Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out . |
| 29 | But if it 's belting down it could be a different story . ’ |
| 30 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |