Example sentences of "but it be his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start a group of actors and friends are preparing a surprise party for the director , Michael Manx ( Stephen Moore ) , but it is his older brother Alfred , played by Finney , who strides on to the set first . |
| 2 | But it is his organisational and fund-raising skills that Mr Schuller most coveted : in ten years Mr Larson doubled his church 's membership with people who are wonderfully ready to whip out their wallets . |
| 3 | Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book . |
| 4 | He 's usually teaching chemistry but it 's his first year of teaching maths |
| 5 | But it 's his own fault . |
| 6 | Getting in would be hazardous ; to say nothing of getting out , but it was his only chance . |
| 7 | His plan was certainly crazy and almost definitely doomed to failure but it was his only option . |
| 8 | But it was his two spells at Rangers , where he was affectionately nicknamed ‘ Bud ’ that the mercurial Johnson established a reputation as a daring winger with a short emotional fuse . |
| 9 | There was novelty in Gorbachev 's appeal for cooperation with Social Democrats , and even religious organisations , in this connection ; but it was his central proposition — that global problems demanded global solutions and that socialism as such provided no solution to them — that was the most distinctive and important element in the address . |
| 10 | Fairbrother 's hundred was his fifth in first-class confrontations with Yorkshire — only Chris Lloyd with six stands above him in the Red Rose list — but it was his first three-figure score since he assumed the leadership as captain-elect midway through last summer . |
| 11 | The bulk of his lands descended to his eldest son , another Robert , but it was his second son , Sir Thomas Holland , first Earl of Kent [ q.v. ] , who refounded the family 's fortunes , winning fame in the French war , marrying Joan of Kent , granddaughter of Edward I , and acquiring the earldom of Kent in right of his wife . |
| 12 | But it was his second , Progress and Religion ( 1929 ) , that first displayed to the full the depth of his thought and the astonishing range of his learning . |
| 13 | With only fifteen yards to go Crisp tightened as he felt Red Rum 's presence but it was his dying effort and only lasted for a second . |
| 14 | Rank could blame the government all he liked , but it was his own policies which had antagonized the Americans , alienated audiences and significantly increased the company 's overdraft . |
| 15 | But it was his own formidable talent that set him apart . |
| 16 | But it was his own fault . |
| 17 | Ken Brown was then the culprit with a fair quota of fines , but it was his own fault . |
| 18 | He knew he had been crowded into a corner , but it was his own fault . |
| 19 | In his diaries he looks forward to future success , but it was his artistic success that he sought before financial security . |
| 20 | But it was his third shot , the penalty for ‘ out of bounds ’ being stroke and distance . |