Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] but it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't wear that pretty dress because the children do romp so , it 's only affection but it 's detrimental to one 's clothes all the same . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm glad you are coming with me to Chapel Street , Letty , I know it 's only lodgings but it 's clean and respectable and it wo n't be for long , I promise you . ’ |
| 3 | It is not Venice but it has warmth , colour , and views such as could stretch the most infertile imagination . |
| 4 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 5 | No you nana No it 's it 's not Sue but it was a lovely thought was n't it ? |
| 6 | This is hardly history but it is the past , and for those of us who are filled with wonder at those days , that past can give a powerful charge to one 's writing . |
| 7 | His voice was sharply warning but it was not much use . |
| 8 | That was n't quiff but it 's parallel . |
| 9 | No no no it was like erm Boojoo or something , it was n't Boojoo but it was something like that . |