Example sentences of "but [pron] be not [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is friendly towards them , but they are not people she can count on . |
| 2 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 3 | The candidates , all seven of them , are still canvassing hard but it is not conversions they really expect now , just promises to turn out and vote . |
| 4 | But it is not confrontation itself which creates the tension in dramatic terms . |
| 5 | Oh well i somewhere ne I thought it were Scunthorpe but it 's not Scunthorpe it 's Newark it 's up |
| 6 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 7 | But it was n't Ward who poked his head up the companionway . |
| 8 | ‘ But it was n't Tony who rang me ! |
| 9 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |