Example sentences of "but it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This appears to be a key point , but it is one that is left controversial . |
| 2 | It now seems a sad compromise , arrived at by friends who wanted to see him appropriately honoured , but it is one perhaps which he would have understood . |
| 3 | Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer . |
| 4 | Whether they can be mapped seismically within or below thrust sheets is more of a problem , but it is one that the industry seems confident of defeating in other parts of the world . |
| 5 | This biographical approach has its weaknesses , but it is one that an amateur often finds easy to handle . |
| 6 | The relationship of television to newspapers is an extremely close one , but it is one which people in television refuse to acknowledge , largely because they believe their product to be morally superior . |
| 7 | This is not a problem that is confined to the sociology of religion , but it is one that arises frequently when students wish to study ‘ closed ’ sects or new religions which they believe ( probably quite correctly ) would not allow them to carry out their research — there is an unmeasured but , I suspect , strong relationship between the theological conservatism of a religion and the distrust with which its believers view sociologists . |
| 8 | It is worth spending a moment considering what might seem a very technical matter , but it is one with important practical implications . |
| 9 | That is , it had a similar status to the Banbury lane in medieval times but it is one which it has kept and developed in response to changing circumstances , whereas the Banbury Lane has failed . |
| 10 | Such expenditure is a necessary investment , but it is one which yields high dividends . |
| 11 | For example , the view that taking extra vitamins may be harmful does not ring true ; the possibility of harm is acknowledged but it is one that is regarded as remote and pedantic . |
| 12 | These fish appear to rely on a rapid circulation of plasma to meet their oxygen needs ; what advantage ( if any ) this stratagem confers is not clear , but it is one that would not be feasible in warmer oceans where the oxygen content of the water is lower . |
| 13 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 14 | This can be a difficult and expensive process , but it is one that delivers a range of environmental benefits . |
| 15 | But it is one which Mrs Felgate treads with great sure-footedness . |
| 16 | ‘ Does n't look like one from here , but it is one . |
| 17 | The inclusion of the toy theatre is a reference to childhood memory , but it is one which lacks the comfort of Boyce 's flowered lap . |
| 18 | Kelvin 's scale of temperature , the only true ratio scale of temperature since it has a non-arbitrary zero point , is not simply a mathematically more powerful scale or one that is invariably more useful , as far as the latter is concerned quite the contrary , but it is one that " incorporates a profound understanding of how a certain class of phenomenon works " . |
| 19 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 20 | This of course is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make , but it is one which some economists would argue is not fully justified by the evidence , on the basis of which there have been calls for much more stringent control . |
| 21 | The induction into beliefs and values separated from all that is religiously controversial or ill-fitting in a secularist , pluralist world , which the HCF model sees as the focus of RE , is performing a valuable educational service , but it is one which can and should be shared by the school as a whole , and every subject-area in it . |
| 22 | Mr Pei 's pyramid in the Louvre is fine architecture , but it is nothing other than a new front door . |
| 23 | But it is nothing like English suburbia . |
| 24 | ‘ But it is nothing . |
| 25 | ‘ But it is nothing to do with me , ’ he squealed , turning to Mrs Patel for sympathy . |
| 26 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't say it was the most comfortable way to travel — but it is something different . ’ |
| 28 | Tobacco is not a food or drink but it is something which is taken into the body through the mouth ( and nose ) . |
| 29 | Women are generally more perceptive in this way than men , he says , but it is something anybody can develop . |
| 30 | Barnes added : ‘ We have not solved the mystery of unlocking their defence , but it is something the management will discuss a lot over the next few days . ’ |