Example sentences of "but it [be] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course easy to overestimate such cost but it is I fear equally easy to underestimate it . |
| 2 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 3 | and , and , and the Kuomintang is not yet set up any local government or national government , it 's before that but there are , but , but it is I mean I , I , I , I take your point about it being sort of a microcosm |
| 4 | But it is I feel just a little overstated and overrated to qualify within my ‘ top-ten ’ . |
| 5 | But it is I think it is far different now to what it was five five or six , seven years ago . |
| 6 | Oh but it 's they go straight into a the bin |
| 7 | Well no , it 's not but it 's they do n't get paid a great deal . |
| 8 | But it 's you get a terrific view once you 've |
| 9 | Plot it away and draw the graph , but it 's you know |
| 10 | It 's good , but it 's you know , it 'll fight er with anything , any sort of beer or whisky or any of these things , but it 'll also fight with cough bottles . |
| 11 | Yeah but it 's You know it 's it 's it it is it 's stupid . |
| 12 | review with them where they 're at , record how they 're doing , you know tra , I mean I ca n't tell them to do that , but actually ask them to spend five or ten minutes each session talking to different pupils and what they 've been doing and you know even if it 's a personal timetable some people wo n't get into it but it 's you know , trying to get them to be what are tutors are , you know , I 'd like them to do . |
| 13 | No I just got a teaching thing , but it 's you know |
| 14 | Spoken as in but it 's you know |
| 15 | It 's not a whoop it 's not a whooping cough do n't get me wrong but it 's you know he 's chesty |
| 16 | Yeah I , I do n't think he 's making it that , that much worse than it is , I think it is still quite bad at this point in time but it 's you know , since revolution yes the landlords still hold |
| 17 | But it ai n't much but it 's I mean I said to our I do n't know how she manages on that |
| 18 | I know he was off he was off sick on Tuesday er but it 's I know he was hoping to come in today I know so it 's worth a look |
| 19 | I do n't mind walking but it 's I get the shopping |
| 20 | Yeah but it 's I do n't know . |
| 21 | It 's followed 's Road most of the way but it 's it went different routes some places just to take away a steep . |
| 22 | what 's it called ca n't think of the name of the blooming thing now but it was you did a line across , then you learn to do a long stitch |
| 23 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 24 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 25 | But it was I mean I could hear it over the telly . |
| 26 | It was great , but it was I mean , I , I have to watch it because I 'd never seen it before |
| 27 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 28 | nineteen forty but it was I envied those who could really speak . |