Example sentences of "but [det] [is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 2 | True , it bankrupted the company , and you need a couple of sessions at the gym before you can park one , but that 's beside the point . |
| 3 | ‘ But that 's beside the point . ’ |
| 4 | Like Orcadai , he was more N'pani than Yek , and now he stared inscrutably at Alexei. ’ — But that 's beside the point . |
| 5 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 6 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 7 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 8 | Yeah but I filled it , I 've botched it up in a couple of places but that 's beside the point , it does n't matter . |
| 9 | and it was busy , but that 's beside the point |
| 10 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 11 | No , well Pat is gay anyway , everyone know is gay but that 's beside the point . |
| 12 | ‘ Only Colebrooke on his round and others to the privy , but that 's along the passageway . ’ |
| 13 | Stack provide three games on cassette with the Light Rifle but that 's about the limit of the support provided . |
| 14 | It was all quite above board — none too clean , but that 's by the way . |
| 15 | I 'll grant you were in a bad state , which was hardly surprising after all the business with losing your part and then Lesley-Jane going off with Micky — incidentally , there was less in that than you thought , but that 's by the way . |
| 16 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 17 | Occasionally and inevitably they go over the top — but that 's in the nature of risk . |
| 18 | If you are near the right markets , you may concentrate on horticultural crops for sale , but that is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 19 | But that is by the way . |
| 20 | But that is in the future . |
| 21 | But that is in the nature of art and artfulness : the establishment of laws so that we can break them . |
| 22 | But this is with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 23 | And then they get er D I Y pack which these two I know you saw that before but this is at the back of it . |
| 24 | But this is at the level of nationalist discourse . |
| 25 | More meaningful results are obtained by producing budgetary accounts that are classified in a way which is specific to the particular service but this is at the expense of a uniform format for budgetary accounting . |
| 26 | Compared with a Butterworth filter of the same order , the cut-off may be steeper near the cut-off frequency but this is at the expense of slightly oscillating transmission in the pass band . |
| 27 | But this is like the argument about nature and the biosphere : of whether you can mess around with it as much as you like , and expect it to survive . |
| 28 | To disentangle the yeomanry from the middling and lower gentry — and indeed from the richest peasants — is more difficult , but this is in the nature of things since yeomen emerged from the ranks of the husbandmen , while the gentry did not form a closed caste , and in many cases there was little to choose between their respective scales of wealth . |