Example sentences of "but [conj] it [is] " in BNC.

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1 There again , rather than wake them up , and the they do a runner , we get on to the phone , tell the police that there 's a a juvenile or what looks like to be a juvenile , sleeping in in part of the flats but where it 's a a stairwell , an ou outhouse , erm even under the stairs , then they 'll come along and check it out .
2 But where it is possible , it is valuable to learn brinkmanship , because you also learn to reduce your feelings of stress under pressure and to make better use of thermals lower down where they are often smaller and more difficult to centre .
3 And the most Anglophobe of Pound 's books is , appropriately , the one that is most full of shoptalk — though of shoptalk of a special kind , the talk of the master to his apprentices in the shop that is a workshop , the atelier where the talk that goes on is the vehicle by which an artistic tradition is transmitted , not in conceptualizing , and tendentious readings of history , but where it is concrete , in tricks of the trade and rules of thumb and words to the wise .
4 Sometimes it is obvious to which group an individual should be assigned , but where it is not .
5 Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory .
6 Concentrate on a particular activity or function that uses a variety of information types , but where it is considered that some improvement is needed .
7 Where parking is off-street the streets seem relatively safe , but where it is not there are obvious dangers .
8 This may be a bit of an exaggeration but where it is true much damage is done .
9 Again you will need to investigate the legality of hiring for classroom use but where it is legal this can give you access mainly to feature films , cartoons for children and possibly to some documentary series .
10 But where it is n't well known is the people who ought to know , and that 's the pensioners , you know th perhaps er your er parents , people er older than yourselves who are drawing state pension , and er the advertising seems to have gone astray .
11 Drills which elicit repetition , substitution , and so on , but where it is possible to form sentences without understanding them .
12 For expositional reasons , we shall need to use the word utterance in various ways in this book , but where it is used to contrast with sentence it should be taken in the sense advocated by Bar-Hillel , as a sentence ( or sometimes string of sentences ) paired with a context .
13 I 've definitely got one cos I remember her sheet now as I was looking at it , but where it is I 'm buggered if I know .
14 It 's an onerous and unglamorous path to follow in Scotland — but so it is , too , in England and Wales .
15 But so it is .
16 To most Anglicans now , though , the main thing about the papacy is not that it is evil — that seems an absurd accusation — but that it is frequently silly and wrong .
17 Eliot does not see primitive religion as a necessary basis for Christianity , ‘ I do not believe that Christianity germinates out of natural religion , but that it is given by revelation . ’
18 If Alice were marrying one of the Irish Guards on duty at Buckingham Palace today , she would probably comment , not that his life is ‘ terrible hard ’ ( though of course training is tough ) , but that it is terribly varied .
19 But this rule is not so simple as at first sight it looks , for it means , not that priority is gained by registration , but that it is lost through failure to register .
20 The strongest card Britain has in dealing with the Third World is not that it is a burnt-out empire , but that it is a peaceful union of diverse nations , regions and cultures , some of which share with the Third World a common historical experience , and so can speak to them in a manner in which London , or the prosperous south-east corner of England , never can .
21 In this chapter we have argued that emotion in drama is real , but that it is nevertheless a modified version of that same emotion felt in an actual event , for the emotional response in drama is a response to an abstraction .
22 The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars .
23 That is not to suggest that the gonococcus is not present at these different sites but that it is difficult to identify microscopically .
24 Evaluation is identified as the fourth and final style of the planning cycle but it is emphasised that evaluation is not simply something that comes as a ‘ big bang ’ at the end of the process , but that it is required throughout .
25 It would appear , from more recent studies , that food additives are important in a great many children with hyperkinetic syndrome , but that it is unusual to find a child for whom additives are the sole problem .
26 To ensure that each person has a turn , but that it is difficult for those playing to predict when their number is coming up , I have a system of calling the numbers out .
27 A weakness in any of them does not mean that faith is illegitimate but that it is an easy prey for doubt , as later testing may show .
28 The problem for many people today is not that it is too difficult to believe but that it is too easy .
29 To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident .
30 But the point is not whether or not attention is sustained , but that it is when most attentive that one is taking most information into account .
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