Example sentences of "but that be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe we just had a little bit of pressure , but that 's good players , they punish you do n't they , top players ? |
| 2 | but that 's all seconds . |
| 3 | ‘ But that 's ten minutes . |
| 4 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM are both very interested in the microkernel planned by the Software Foundation , but that is two years away , which suggests that if applications developers do not start converting their applications to run under OSF/1 soon , for commercial reasons , all the sponsors currently at the V.3.2 level look likely to decide to wait for the microkernel and then implement their existing environments over it . |
| 5 | The last time the clubs met in this competition West Hartlepool won 22-6 but that was six years ago . |
| 6 | She was indeed torpedoed by a German submarine , but that was two years after the claim that she had been sunk in September 1939 . |
| 7 | it was right opposite the pub now , but that was all fields then were n't it ? |
| 8 | But there were other facts : Inez Glynn had disappeared : but that was seventeen years ago . |
| 9 | The counterpane had once been pink , but that was many layers of grey ago . |
| 10 | At the time of the building of Calder Hall , back in the 1950s , there were military implications — but that was many Moons ago . ) |
| 11 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 12 | In fact , although he accepted the commission , Mozart never completed all the pieces , later confessing that he could n't stand the flute ( but that was many years before The Magic Flute ) . |
| 13 | But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle . |
| 14 | ‘ Indeed — in Silmour Street , but that was several years ago , as I think you were about to tell me ? ’ |
| 15 | But that was 20 years ago , now he concentrates on executive recruitment . |
| 16 | ‘ But that was twenty years ago . ’ |
| 17 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 18 | But that was three years ago and the judge is still pondering it ( Pacific Telesis has since dropped the idea ) . |
| 19 | ‘ But that was three weeks ago , I understand . ’ |
| 20 | But that was three weeks ago , as the Substitute Prosecutor has already pointed out to you . |