Example sentences of "but [conj] it [is] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is good evidence that this transmissible agent is a virus containing DNA but that it is embedded in a tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | u τ depends on the flow as a whole , but once it is specified , the structure of the wall region is specified . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But if it 's end it 's nearly always nearly always a C and a K. |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But if it 's belting down it could be a different story . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I would rather not have that on the subject reports but if it 's going to be on i for the sake of coherence the comments should be together . |
| 20 | Yeah but if it 's going to be shown to ultimately thousands of people and to last at least a couple of years , we should invest in it . |
| 21 | He pauses and gives a lazy Dirty Harry-style smile : ‘ But if it 's falling off a building I 'll let someone else do it . ’ |
| 22 | No , it 's already published , but if it 's gon na be |
| 23 | It might look good to turn up with such a grand vin , but if it 's opened on the night , even Mouton this young would be unpalatable , a horrid waste of money . |
| 24 | It sounds a desperate measure ; but if it 's happening in California , it can only be a matter of months before it takes off here . |
| 25 | But if it is repeated too often the incessant jigging of hands makes the audience restless , too . |
| 26 | But if it is to do with relationship it needs witnesses . |
| 27 | But if it is pressed too far , medical imagery can lead to a sense of inevitability and passiveness which is inappropriate in resolving doubt . |
| 28 | The House of Lords Select Committee understood the provision to relate to development plans but if it is implemented in the UK ( and this depends somewhat on MAFF taking an unusually enlightened view ) it could pave the way for farm development plans incorporating conservation and agricultural measures . |
| 29 | But if it is discovered and threatened , it twists its legs outwards and arches its back in such an extreme contortion that it suddenly and disconcertingly exposes its underside — and that is a vivid scarlet , a spectacular warning that its skin contains a burning poison . |
| 30 | It may not sound much , but if it is raining and you are wet and tired , it becomes a big job . |