Example sentences of "but it is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year . |
| 2 | The extent to which isolation of N gonorrhoeae is indicative of risk of HIV-1 infection is debatable , but it is reasonable to regard rectal gonorrhoea as a marker for high risk homosexual behaviour . |
| 3 | There are no studies of the psychological state of IBS patients seen in primary care , but it is reasonable to assume that they represent an intermediate population . |
| 4 | Unfortunately we do not have a detailed , turn-by-turn transcription of her interactions , but it is reasonable to assume that her linguistic accommodation was preceded by an assessment of how her interlocutor might be expected to talk ; in other words , that Sue 's assumption of a persona would be mediated through a stereotype of the linguistic behaviour of the group to which she felt her customer belonged . |
| 5 | Of course no experience is self-authenticating , but it is reasonable to accept claims made on the basis of experience ( *b and c ) unless sufficient reason is produced ( *a ) for not doing so . |
| 6 | Quite the contrary , degrees of review may have differed over time but it is indisputable that the judiciary accepted that non-jurisdictional errors of law could exist . |
| 7 | North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems . |
| 8 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 9 | The penultimate chapter in this book will be concerned with arriving at generalisations about the functioning and effectiveness of the project as a whole , but it is appropriate at this point to identify a number of interesting features of the Major Project as illustrated by these two schools , and to indicate some issues that require further thought . |
| 10 | The impact upon investment appraisal will be left until chapter 6 , but it is appropriate to look at the effect upon costing here . |
| 11 | The growth in value and volume of overseas trade will be discussed in the next chapter , but it is appropriate to consider here the provision of shipping and of port facilities . |
| 12 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 13 | The authority is not bound to accept his recommendations but it is rare for many , or any of substance , to be overruled . |
| 14 | There are moments of natural awakening to one 's own beauty , but it is rare that it is really appreciated in the early years of womanhood ; usually it is taken for granted , and only lamented when it is gone . |
| 15 | Working class intellectuals have often come from the ranks of printers in the past , but it is rare to find one such who like Jean Henderson was a woman . |
| 16 | By virtue of being hand-made , all oriental rugs can be said to be unique — a weaver , no matter how hard he or she tries to follow a particular design , will invariably make small mistakes or innovations which will impart some individual flavour to the work — but it is rare to encounter a rug in which the weaver has consciously striven to express his own creative ideas at the expense of a traditional design . |
| 17 | But it is rare to initiate the formal process . |
| 18 | There is suspicion of the work of demons ; but it is rare for demons to attack the rich , and above all to leave no trace of violence on the bodies . |
| 19 | Disapproval is all too common in the pulpit , but it is rare in poetry , and its presence gives his work a curious flavour , subtle yet tart , which will always attract connoisseurs . |
| 20 | But it is illegal to import it , send it through the post or display it to the general public . |
| 21 | I do not believe that this perceptual process is either universal or immutable , but it is ubiquitous and extremely potent . |
| 22 | It is not too awful to be confronted with people cleverer than oneself ( in science journalism it happens quite a lot ) but it is intolerable to share the world with people who apparently are party to bodies of knowledge and ways of thinking that make all one 's own ideas seem petty . |
| 23 | But it is intolerable . |
| 24 | This process of exploitation is not so obvious as the direct payment of tithes or forced labour under feudalism , but it is still , according to Marx , economic exploitation . |
| 25 | The East Germans have enough to think about without troubling themselves about tennis , but it is odd they do not have a single international player of note , bearing in mind the success of Czechoslovakia and the involvement of other Eastern bloc countries . |
| 26 | It is not clear to what extent the Securitate is now a ‘ state within the state ’ and to what extent it is directly answerable to President Ceausescu , but it is odd that the service 's worst excesses have occurred when the head of state is on an official trip abroad , in this case to Iran . |
| 27 | Such an advanced social and administrative development is certainly apparent in seventh century Kentish law-codes ; but it is odd that these make little provision for economic transactions . |
| 28 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 29 | It is not incomplete , but it is vague or question-provoking , especially when compared with B or with the total effect of A plus B. |
| 30 | It 's not cheap to join — £350 per member per year , and up to £500 plus VAT for corporate membership — but it is exclusive . |