Example sentences of "but it is [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The penultimate chapter in this book will be concerned with arriving at generalisations about the functioning and effectiveness of the project as a whole , but it is appropriate at this point to identify a number of interesting features of the Major Project as illustrated by these two schools , and to indicate some issues that require further thought . |
| 2 | The authority is not bound to accept his recommendations but it is rare for many , or any of substance , to be overruled . |
| 3 | There is suspicion of the work of demons ; but it is rare for demons to attack the rich , and above all to leave no trace of violence on the bodies . |
| 4 | Disapproval is all too common in the pulpit , but it is rare in poetry , and its presence gives his work a curious flavour , subtle yet tart , which will always attract connoisseurs . |
| 5 | This idealization of individual subjects is clearest in autobiographical accounts or case histories , but it is apparent in reports of interviews or group work , impressionistic observations , or speculative essays , too . |
| 6 | But it is subject to manipulation by politicians who use it to their own advantage . |
| 7 | A finder does have title to the goods ( a ‘ possessory ’ title ) but it is subject to the title of the original owner . |
| 8 | That company is the most famous cycle manufacturer in the world , but it is subject to the most unfair dumping of bicycles from China . |
| 9 | The Qur'an does recognise a right to private property but it is subject to important limitation , as indicated in the next extract . |
| 10 | In Protogeometric an occasional animal is seen , haphazardly placed , but it is first in Attic Geometric of the eighth century that a figure-style is incorporated in the decorative scheme . |
| 11 | It has been tried experimentally in other countries , but it is new to us . |
| 12 | I have seen it all in my very own Camden often enough , but it is new to me somehow . |
| 13 | The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy . |
| 14 | But it is good to be reminded of who one is in relation to others who know a bit of one 's past ; where one ‘ is coming from ’ . |
| 15 | Put in context , these people do not dominate the scene , but it is good to be aware of them . |
| 16 | ISDN is currently priced in fixed 64Kb/second chunks , which some see as a limitation : with the latest compression techniques in place , 64Kb is a bit excessive for phone calls , but it is insufficient for some other purposes . |
| 17 | There may be complaints and accusations of neglect to be endured at first , but it is stimulating for the old person to have new company and most important for you , the carer , to maintain some friends and some life outside the home , both for present needs and for the future when you will be alone . |
| 18 | Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse ! |
| 19 | But it is possible through Club Bon Viveur , organised by restaurant critics Les Routiers . |
| 20 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 21 | In general we value goods with a price , and devalue the ‘ free lunch ’ , but it is possible for some institutions and professional and personal relationships to be viewed in different terms . |
| 22 | Sometimes proportionality can be very close indeed but it is possible for there to be divergences from strict proportionality for the reasons explained above . |
| 23 | Normally , however , one would expect the transport police to be responsible , but it is possible for other police officers to conduct tests . |
| 24 | But it is possible for people growing up in a totally different culture to see kingship in terms of tyranny , in which case they would receive the statement that God is like a king as meaning that God is tyrannical , even some kind of dictator , so that religion resembles a prison rather than paradise . |
| 25 | He complains about the price paid in taxes for church-aided schools , but it is small in comparison to the quality of the citizens they produce , living saints some of them . |
| 26 | Mother replied , ‘ But it is nice to be different ; people are all different and it would be boring if we all looked the same . ’ |
| 27 | But it is inherent in the scheme of the Act that an appropriate public law decision of the housing authority is a condition precedent to the establishment of the private law duty . |
| 28 | There is no preference in the law between an adult or a child in the use of the available seat belts but it is safer for the adult to be restrained . |
| 29 | ‘ This has obviously now been rectified but it is symptomatic of Labour 's reluctance to be drawn on the issue … |
| 30 | But it is symptomatic of the greater tolerance of the Muslims that the Jewish community was allowed to return to Jerusalem and four Christian priests were allowed to hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . |