Example sentences of "but it [be] [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 2 | While still learning , to swim or drive a car or speak a foreign language , he does have to think out what to do next , but it is when he comes to trust his own reflexes that he will have mastered the skill . |
| 3 | This is fashionably dismissed as a sentimental modern aberration , but it is how I read the figure . |
| 4 | ‘ Bliss it was that dawn to be alive ’ a quote from Wordsworth , but it is how I feel as we embark on this new decade . |
| 5 | ‘ I never thought I 'd feel that way about any woman , but it is how I feel about you . ’ |
| 6 | I hate people that erm when my dad burps , if , if it was a cup he 'd go excuse me , but but it 's when they go I hate that ! |
| 7 | But it 's when it interferes with the thing . |
| 8 | It 's alright if you keep busy but it 's when you stop and stand in n it ? |
| 9 | The only trouble is , it 's when the , I think the dieting , it 's alright the dieting , but it 's when you stop the dieting |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's where I want to be — I 'm not frightened of it . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 12 | The publications you produce may well fit into a set of identifiable categories ; brochures , newsletters , flyers , books , manuals and so on but it 's how you produce them that 's important . |
| 13 | But it 's how I 've survived . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But it 's how I feel about these plans , now , after … ’ she faltered a second and then forced herself on ‘ … after everything . |
| 15 | But it was when he came to his summing-up or , as they say in Scotland , charge to the jury , that Lord Robertson abandoned all attempts at judicial impartiality . |
| 16 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 17 | But it was when I came to ask myself the reason for such a wild suggestion that I received a greater shock . |
| 18 | Not through choice , not by a long way , but it was where I 'd made my destiny , even if as an alien . |