Example sentences of "but it [be] [adv] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 2 | The candidates , all seven of them , are still canvassing hard but it is not conversions they really expect now , just promises to turn out and vote . |
| 3 | But it is not confrontation itself which creates the tension in dramatic terms . |
| 4 | It is possible to break down fat to use as energy when you are training , but it is essentially glycogen which is the energy source . |
| 5 | Fathers , because ultimately they control financial resources , may be the people who sign cheques or who authorize the payment of money to their children , but it is often women who mediate and negotiate such gifts and loans ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Oh well i somewhere ne I thought it were Scunthorpe but it 's not Scunthorpe it 's Newark it 's up |
| 7 | Erm well we all know what 's going to happen and they sort of give an idea of the plot but it 's only Marlowe who does n't know . |
| 8 | ‘ But it 's only winos he 's dealing with , ’ Rab said . |
| 9 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's about time there was some breakfast on the table . |
| 11 | We sha n't know what else is missing until the relatives get here but it was probably money he was after … for drugs , I dare say . ’ |
| 12 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 13 | But it was n't Ward who poked his head up the companionway . |
| 14 | ‘ But it was n't Tony who rang me ! |
| 15 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 16 | But it was usually Billy who finished up with the lesser of the two . |
| 17 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |