Example sentences of "but [conj] it is use " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The interesting implication of disregarding them is that in so far as the STV can operate and be judged as a PR system , it is not at all because it provides for transfers of votes , but because it is used in pluri-member constituencies in which candidates of more than one party can be voted for effectively .
3 But when it is used to describe what happens during reading , or any attempt at reading , it seems to stand for something less focused and further from full awareness — something which might more appropriately be called ‘ anticipation ’ or ‘ expectancy ’ .
4 ‘ poeticity ’ , he says , is like oil in cooking ; you can not have it on its own but when it is used with other food it is more than a mere addition .
5 The factual information may have a place later on in the essay but as it is used here , as an introduction , it does not do a useful job .
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