Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | He said : ‘ We had most of the play , but it is points we need not possession . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | But it 's cattle you should think of in this country , perfect dairy pasture , rich it is . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 37 | Yes but it 's noises you do n't notice , if they 're continuous then they become |
| 38 | ‘ Well , you 're better-looking , Connie , but it 's Archie I 'd like to have a word with , ’ said Joe . |
| 39 | But it 's Johannsen who 's dead . |
| 40 | ‘ But it 's time you did ! ’ |
| 41 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 42 | ‘ I hate to break your heart , but it 's time I was on my way . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Both want to make love , but it 's men who are more interested in having sex . |
| 45 | But it 's people who convert that into a successful business . ’ |
| 46 | But it 's Brian I would like to see . |
| 47 | ‘ But it 's Alice I 'm thinking of , sir , ’ Harry argued . |
| 48 | But it was Ryker who sat forward to restrain his companion . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Ruth clenched her hands inside her cloak , nerving herself to follow him ; but it was Fand who did n't move . |
| 51 | But it was Preston who 'd become the adulterer , not William . |
| 52 | But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration . |
| 53 | But it was Woodruffe who came around from the cab . |
| 54 | But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted . |
| 55 | 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 … |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | But it was Morse who did so , as he continued : |
| 58 | Kubitsky was holding the weapon , but it was Sandor who was smiling as he watched the others — Yuan , Zukov , Mubarak , even Vorontseff — as they climbed unarmed from the hatch . |
| 59 | His departure spurred Widnes , especially lively second rower Richie Eyres , but it was Wigan who pounced first . |
| 60 | But it was Casaubon who fifty years later imposed Polybius as the expert in political life , as a far better guide than the fashionable Tacitus . |