Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [noun] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was Dr George Tolley , director of the MSC 's Open Tech Unit , whatever that is , who was having a go about professional people not keeping up with developments in their professions . |
| 2 | But it was Arthur G. Tansley ( 1871–1955 ) who took over the leadership of the new approach , proclaiming ecology as the guide to future work in botany in a 1904 paper given to the British Association . |
| 3 | Up front it was Hughes ' turn to see if he was compatible , but it was full-back Paul Parker who nearly opened the door with a deep raking cross that skimmed Cantona 's dark locks . |
| 4 | But it was Mr Sargent Emmie liked best . |
| 5 | But it was Sir Norman Brook who identified what to 1980s eyes is the most startling of the missing links in the Cabinet process of the late forties : the lack of any systematic attempt to review long-term public-expenditure trends and the future spending-implications of current policies . |
| 6 | In her obituary in The Times Evelyn Underhill claimed that Eva Gore-Booth would be remembered chiefly as a mystical poet , but it was W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] who unjustly commemorated her — dreaming of that ‘ vague Utopia ’ , her body and life wasted by politics . |