Example sentences of "but it is [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is at precisely this time that price advantage comes into its own and companies become more willing to switch from existing suppliers if they can cut costs by using a new source . |
| 2 | It may not be possible now to reorganise the power industry to sell services , rather than energy , but it is at least possible to plan in terms of the uses to which the energy must be put . |
| 3 | But it is at least necessary to start Mary 's story on the morning of Tuesday , 12th January 1937 , when she was fifteen years old . |
| 4 | We would be the last to advocate wholesale belief in the utterances of governments , but it is at least possible that these protestations are sincere . |
| 5 | On the whole Hercules is rather a barren constellation , but it is at least graced by the presence of these two splendid globulars . |
| 6 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 7 | It is a dismal and discomfiting picture , but it is at least a ‘ natural ’ one . |
| 8 | But it is at least interesting that there seems to be this level shift problem embedded within physics itself . |
| 9 | But it is at least possible to imagine circumstances in which a ruling or decision of the panel might give rise to legitimate complaint . |
| 10 | But it is at least possible that one or more of the investors might want to keep the shares for whatever remote speculative value the shares might have . |
| 11 | The exact meaning of the word in relation to the status of the early civitas capitals is also still unresolved , but it is at least clear that we are dealing with a unit which enjoyed some measure of self-government . |
| 12 | Actuarial predictions of a country 's mortality record are now very reliable , but it is at least a theoretical risk that the record could deteriorate unexpectedly . |
| 13 | The analysis for parameter values near point X is much harder , involving elements of all the other analyses mentioned so far , but it is at least possible to confirm that Fig. 6.2 is qualitatively correct { 11 } . |
| 14 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 15 | I do n't know where I put it actually , but it is in there . |
| 16 | This can occur with any mineral , but it is by far the most common in clay minerals which typically have rather loosely bonded cations on their surfaces which can be readily exchanged for cations in solution . |