Example sentences of "but it be an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposition that they sprinted up the hill is not equivalent to the proposition that they ran up the hill , but it is an interpretation of it in the sense that it shares certain contextual implications . |
| 2 | But it is an idea which has succeeded . |
| 3 | Your first solo exhibition may seem a daunting prospect but it is an event to which every serious artist aspires . |
| 4 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 5 | It is n't an offence to inhale solvents but it is an offence to sell them in the knowledge that they will be used for such a purpose . ’ |
| 6 | But it is an implication of concessive holism that there will be no hard and fast answer to this question ; the reply will depend on our ability to establish the relevant counterfactuals , which will presumably change with our theories about the social world . |
| 7 | During the period of entry , interest rates may have to be kept at the present emergency level , but it is an emergency level , a punishment for past sins of credit creation and lax management . |
| 8 | Class can be inherited but it is an inheritance based on the market . |
| 9 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 10 | There is an encyclopaedia , but it is an encyclopaedia of endgames . |
| 11 | No but it is an opportunity to actually |
| 12 | It is this conflict which leads increasingly to the urge to treat people as groups rather than as individuals — but it is an abnegation of responsibility on the part of the leaders and for the future it will not do . |
| 13 | The alienation of groups among the younger voters has perhaps received too much publicity but it is an attitude which is shared to some degree by other sections of the community . |
| 14 | I occasionally use a quiver-tip on stillwaters , but it is an indicator I find most valuable on rivers , except at those times when the fish are being very finicky , when I will touch-leger . |
| 15 | Infection control is only one element in the care of a patient but it is an indicator of standards and there is no disputing how vital it is when one considers the prevalence of nosocomial or hospital-acquired infection ( HAI ) . |
| 16 | But it is an excess , rather than a shortage of these which is likely to cause trouble . |
| 17 | That the work of many of them is first class is without question , but it is an achievement against great odds . |
| 18 | Students ' academic freedoms are reminders , then , of our hope that students will develop their own autonomy , but it is an autonomy exercised within a shared form of life . |
| 19 | But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others . |
| 20 | But it is an argument for the quite different model of moral obligation which I have suggested in this section . |
| 21 | This is not the autograph manuscript of the poem , but it is an autograph manuscript of Robert Browning 's , since it is in his hand . |
| 22 | Training does not make cash as extra-contractual referrals do , but it is an investment in Britain 's health . |
| 23 | ‘ But it is an impact injury rather than a strain and basically it is sore and swollen . |
| 24 | That it has not proved possible to squeeze our resources further in order to accomplish this is cause for regret , but it is an aim which I am confident that all of my successors will seek to achieve . |
| 25 | Quality in photographs costs money but it is an outlay that is never wasted for casting directors and producers do look at volumes of Spotlight repeatedly . |
| 26 | Turning our backs on that insight is an option , of course , but it is an option like teaching children the world is flat . |
| 27 | Negative interest rate , as exercised by Swiss bankers , is not at this stage suggested , but it is an option which Swiss experience would help us to achieve if needed in the future . |
| 28 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 29 | So it 's automatically built in to the first life assured , but it is an option for the second if they want it . |
| 30 | In part , this is a result of the relatively early stages of RMI , but it is an aspect that must be addressed and addressed with a sense of priority . |