Example sentences of "but it is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is richly written and dramatically involving , well staged by Dallmeyer himself and designer Graham Proudfoot . |
| 2 | But it is surely silly to deny that it has thrown politicians and television journalists together in an association that remains totally invisible to the public . |
| 3 | There might appear to be an argument in favour of consistency here , but it is surely eclipsed by the need to recognize that many children remain dependent on their parents until they are at least 18 . |
| 4 | Such an approach may demonstrate to the satisfaction of some that no crime is involved , but it is surely most unsatisfactory to rest the response of the law to what is seen as a testing moral and philosophical issue on some semantic sleight of hand . |
| 5 | This is a new requirement for most information systems , which have simply expanded to contain ever more data , relevant and timely or not ; but it is surely little more than good practice should require in the interests of efficient and economical operation . |
| 6 | But it is surely not the will of God that a gentleman who has come here to practise medicine … |
| 7 | Each of these in isolation produces a form of curriculum which embodies its own emphases ; but it is surely better to consider them as the three necessary dimensions of any truly general education ( Squires 1987a ) . |
| 8 | Unwieldy it may be in certain respects , but it is surely better for a model of meaning destined to serve a descriptive as opposed to a theoretical study to err on the side of generosity of scope , rather than on the side of austerity . |
| 9 | This may seem a revolutionary step , but it is surely the most significant step we can take to ensure that , in the words of The Curriculum from 5 to 16 , education ‘ is seen by pupils to meet their present and prospective needs ’ . |
| 10 | This may sound far-fetched but it is surely worth considering as a co-operative European venture . |
| 11 | But it is surely generally accepted that some level of participation is necessary whatever approach to systems design and development is adopted . |
| 12 | The story-line of Between is far from straightforward , but it is logically relatively unambiguous . |
| 13 | Several attempts , he wrote , had been made by " former prospectors " to sink upon this lode " but it is heavily watered that they could not go down more than 3 or 4 fathoms deep " . |
| 14 | As far as it goes , the book is a useful catalogue of the havoc wrecked by Reagan , but it is openly partisan and should be read as such . |
| 15 | Inspection of Tei and Owen 's Tables I and 3 reveals that the laterality effect was greater for " same " trials but it is theoretically important to know whether there was any significant interaction between stimulus type and visual hemifield . |
| 16 | But it is theoretically possible to build a special machine — a protein molecule like the rest of the cellular machines — that runs off RNA copies from other RNA copies . |
| 17 | The first rule governs some processes that might not involve an overall change of spin , but it is conveniently considered with the spin rule . |
| 18 | Masonry is extraordinarily satisfactory in its way but it is inherently heavy and immobile . |
| 19 | The latter two sources are of uncertain reliability , while the Encomiast 's suppression of Emma 's previous marriage to Æthelred makes one suspicious of his entire treatment of the affair , but it is inherently likely that negotiations did take place , for Cnut was shrewd enough to appreciate that gaining Emma 's assistance against her sons without Richard 's goodwill would have been to leave the job half done . |
| 20 | There is an element of danger in the show but it is thoroughly checked , but there 's always a first time . |
| 21 | Nothing in the Code seeks to prevent a suspect volunteering a statement after charge otherwise than in response to questioning , but it is presumably such an infrequent occurrence that it was not thought necessary to spell out the procedure for doing so . |
| 22 | But it is presumably these later criticisms , made long after his emancipation from Wagner , that inspired Elisabeth to explain away the Wagnerian connection as merely secondary ; while her claims about her brother 's real intention to produce a " large " book about Greece ( and nothing but Greece ) would seem to be prompted by a desire to enhance his scholarly image ; for no other kind of book ( she decided ) would have satisfied his " scholar 's conscience . " |
| 23 | Whether one names this position absolutism or relativism may be left to the reader 's discretion , but it is neither the absolutism which ascribes unconditional authority to universal standards ( 'It is wrong to take human life even in self-defence' ) nor the relativism which is neutral between judgements of a particular act ( ‘ You think Hitler was right to massacre them , I think he was wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ A solidarity society is pleasant to live in , but it is neither economically efficient nor politically sensible . |
| 25 | As a principle aiming to combine hierarchy with participation , it may be cumbersome , but it is neither unworkable nor irrational . |
| 26 | Changed secretion of peptides , amongst many other such changes , may be necessary if memory formation is to occur , but it is neither sufficient nor , because it is a very general process , can it be regarded as specific to any particular memory . |
| 27 | But it is neither an elegy of the novel nor a grim prediction of its imminent demise . |
| 28 | R. Louis Stevenson remarked ‘ it is worth a climb even in Summer to look down upon the lock from Arthur 's Seat , but it is tenfold more so on a day of Skating ’ . |
| 29 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 30 | Looking after other people 's children can be very rewarding indeed , but it is also hard work and a big responsibility and is not quite the same as bringing up your own children . |