Example sentences of "but it [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is although it does n't sound like her . |
| 2 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |
| 3 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 4 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 5 | It is not worthwhile retrieving the matched word strings themselves if the number of matches is too large , but it is if this number is within a reasonable limit . |
| 6 | But it is when riding in the British Isles — both parts of this island , England Scotland and Wales — that most of us are most vulnerable . |
| 7 | Conventional wisdom is that within broad limits , these types of change of use do not need consent , but it is as yet untested : the issue may ultimately be judged by the external effect of the split or amalgamation ( e. g. increase in traffic ) . |
| 8 | But it is as Anne Rice that she is most accessible , writing about history and horror with everything from eighteenth-century castrati in Venice and Scottish demons to Egyptian mummies in Edwardian England . |
| 9 | But it is as though she has had to start from square one . |
| 10 | But it is as strike-breakers — with all that that implies of betrayal of working-class solidarity — that they went down in ETS history . |
| 11 | George was also on the board of the Scottish Orchestra ( currently the Royal Scottish National Orchestra ) but it is as creator of the much-loved Cosmo cinema in Glasgow in the 1930s that he will always be remembered . |
| 12 | But it 's once you get more than twenty copies |
| 13 | But it 's whether , whether the officers do that and start the consultation or whether it 's done by P A G , I 'm getting a shaking of the head here , I think it needs a political decision as opposed to anything else . |
| 14 | I mean we 'll move any day , but it 's whether Miss will you see |
| 15 | But it 's whether you 've got the right way is n't it ? |
| 16 | right , right so that 's that 's partly to do with you your preparation is n't it but it 's if I put the word script |
| 17 | But it 's if they 're tall |
| 18 | It is like having an auntie in a way , but in other ways she is a mum because whenever it 's anything special , she always sends up something ... but it 's as I said before , like an auntie . |
| 19 | But it 's as Hirst 's sidekick rather than replacement that Bright can see his Wednesday career taking off . |
| 20 | Marcus here — ’ ‘ Yeah , yeah , whatever — he maybe has n't got it yet but it 's as good as . ’ |
| 21 | But it 's cos I changed it , they were going to put a large fence in |
| 22 | I 'd have had that if that had been a different colour , but it 's cos it 's brown it 's no good in our kitchen . |
| 23 | But it 's because of the Church , of course , that people like Joyce and , for a great deal of his time , Yeats , had to live out of Ireland … |
| 24 | I know that , really , but it 's because you 're my mother . |
| 25 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |
| 26 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 27 | There 's all these buildings and streets out there , but it 's like they 're all empty — you know , like there 's no one out there , just things . |
| 28 | I thought then I 'd be able to use it as an airing cupboard but it still did n't work but it 's like you said it 's because it 's got such a good |
| 29 | ‘ Well , that was true , I suppose , but it was after I found them together in her flat . |
| 30 | But it was after he 'd given her the ring that the cracks had begun to appear in her façade . |