Example sentences of "but [pers pn] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : I believe I am , but 't is but very little sir . |
| 2 | But it is although it does n't sound like her . |
| 3 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 4 | But it is that same obstinacy or , put another way , determination to win , that has not only made him a successful captain , but also into one of the most feared batsmen in the world . |
| 5 | Plockton started existence as a fishing port , and the old harbour can still be seen , but it is that no longer , pleasure sailing being the new order of the day ; and visitors are catered for without fuss or ostentation . |
| 6 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |
| 7 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 8 | The insecticide is carried in a very penetrating light oil but it is nor fair to expect it to penetrate heavy deposits of dust , dirt and cobwebs before it reaches the timber . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it is and that 's why in flour mills |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it is as though she has had to start from square one . |
| 18 | But it is as strike-breakers — with all that that implies of betrayal of working-class solidarity — that they went down in ETS history . |
| 19 | 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 . |