Example sentences of "but it be [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 2 | But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around , long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow . |
| 3 | A lot of Alfie 's adventures are shared by his little sister Annie Rose , but it is Dad who takes him camping , very close to home . |
| 4 | But it is bait which hit back with bullets . |
| 5 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 6 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 7 | " There are other things more unkind , but it is time I went . " |
| 8 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 9 | It is indeed a case of ‘ what you will ’ in decoding this and all other linguistic signs , but it is Iago who has made Othello construe it in that manner , and will continue to do so . |
| 10 | Yes , but it is God we obey , not nature ! |
| 11 | But it is God who gives the victory , through Moses ' intercession . |
| 12 | But it is ground which does not appear to be fertile for anything — let alone an attempt to build an alternative to Africa 's elitist and beleaguered educational system . |
| 13 | All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power . |
| 14 | They are warm and but it 's colour I do n't know whether I perhaps if I saw cream again this year I might buy it but erm I 'm not sure that I want to when this deep orangy colour . |
| 15 | Yes but it 's noises you do n't notice , if they 're continuous then they become |
| 16 | ‘ But it 's time you did ! ’ |
| 17 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 18 | Now this is where you go to the branch , and the branch management team stand up and bring you up to date with everything that 's happening in the company with product changes , legislation changes , yes , some of it 's boring , but it 's information you 've got to have . |
| 19 | But it 's people who convert that into a successful business . ’ |
| 20 | But it was Ryker who sat forward to restrain his companion . |
| 21 | Cuvier had claimed to be able to reconstruct an animal from a single bone , but it was Owen who did it , working out that a bone from New Zealand , broken at the ends , must have come from an enormous flightless bird , and being vindicated when the complete skeleton of a moa was found later . |
| 22 | Ruth clenched her hands inside her cloak , nerving herself to follow him ; but it was Fand who did n't move . |
| 23 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 24 | But it was Woodruffe who came around from the cab . |
| 25 | For Swindon it was shooting practice young Marcus Phillips on as sub for the first time nearly got a goal but it was Torquay who tookover towards the end … |
| 26 | But it was Morse who answered : ‘ If you wish , Lewis , I will give you the names and addresses of the three of them there that open all day . |
| 27 | But it was Morse who did so , as he continued : |
| 28 | His departure spurred Widnes , especially lively second rower Richie Eyres , but it was Wigan who pounced first . |
| 29 | School Mission had first been conceived by Edward Thring , headmaster of Uppingham , but it was Eton which opened the first club in 1880 , followed by Harrow in 1883 . |
| 30 | But it was Belle who said , ‘ What about the hats ? ’ |