Example sentences of "but it be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 2 | The , the report addresses the past and current G M B policy but it is the future needs of our members that we must plan for . |
| 3 | No doubt , Dej 's cronies had enjoyed access to the small pleasures of life which were increasingly denied to their subjects by the impact of their own economic policies , but it is the tawdry nature of men like the Minister of the Interior , Tudor Postelnicu , which is so unattractive . |
| 4 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 5 | But it is the real powerbrokers , the businessmen and the politicians , who top the honours list and take their pay offs in peerages . |
| 6 | It wo n't do any good but it is the only way that I can reply to your last love letter or apologize for that cruel punch at your face . |
| 7 | The scattering of maps is random and often difficult to read , but it is the only catalogue to illustrate a Chacmool in the supine position with head turned that impressed Henry Moore . |
| 8 | This does feel a bit like you are trying to blow your eyeballs out of your ears , but it is the only way to avoid disaster . |
| 9 | In a way the proposal that the state of the universe is determined by a sum over only nonsingular histories is like the drunk looking for his key under the lamp-post : It may not be where he lost it , but it is the only place where he might find it . |
| 10 | Similarly , the universe may not be in the state defined by a sum over nonsingular histories , but it is the only state in which science could predict how the universe should be . |
| 11 | " But it is the only way to save the country . |
| 12 | The only inquiry has been the American one and that was handicapped because the British er er partners of er Price Waterhouse did n't pass on to either that inquiry or to the American partners of Price Waterhouse , the information they had about what had gone wrong with B C C I so that inquiry itself was inadequate but it is the only one and what that found er was appalling er indeed they were pretty critical about British audit regulation , about the auditors performance . |
| 13 | But it is the actual icon that amplifies this condition when we are in close proximity to its form . |
| 14 | Palatine Ales is not in fact a particularly large company , but it is the largest we have used so far . |
| 15 | There is some truth to this , but it is the other qualities of cigarettes — addictiveness , historic price inelasticity and unusually high levels of brand loyalty — that make price cutting by Philip Morris , and subsequently by its main rival RJR , such a stark symbol of change . |
| 16 | Both the silver and golden orfe make good pond fish , but it is the golden kind that is most frequently encountered . |
| 17 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 18 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |
| 19 | The CNAA , in the words of one commentator in 1971 , was far from perfect , ‘ but it is the best procedure for devising innovative courses we have found so far ’ . |
| 20 | In other words , we are seeing the same film , but it is the negative that is now being presented to us . |
| 21 | But it is the enclosing mountains that are the most impressive and arresting features of the glen . |
| 22 | But it is the potent striking partnership of Dalian Atkinson , who scored Villa 's 11th-minute winner , and Dean Saunders which gives Villa real possibilities . |
| 23 | The blue chip authors are holding their own , but it is the new authors who are really struggling in the current climate . |
| 24 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 25 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 26 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 27 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 28 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 29 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 30 | But it is the one part of the European Community 's I 992 single-market programme that stirs real passions . |