Example sentences of "but it be the [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only inquiry has been the American one and that was handicapped because the British er er partners of er Price Waterhouse did n't pass on to either that inquiry or to the American partners of Price Waterhouse , the information they had about what had gone wrong with B C C I so that inquiry itself was inadequate but it is the only one and what that found er was appalling er indeed they were pretty critical about British audit regulation , about the auditors performance . |
| 2 | Palatine Ales is not in fact a particularly large company , but it is the largest we have used so far . |
| 3 | I realise that a parking space next to an overflowing litter bin , in between a lorry full of cattle carcasses and a carload of adolescents playing heavy metal with their windows open on a sound system loud enough for Wembley Stadium , is not exactly the quintessential southern English landscape that would inspire a Constable painting , a Betjeman poem or an Elgar concerto — but it is the best you are going to get . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |
| 5 | I know Japan is the country everyone points to , but it is the favourite one because it happens to show all the deficiencies of forecasting and combatting rivalry that are available . |
| 6 | The room is not the material one with four walls and a door , but it is the quiet one in the depth of the heart ( Matthew 6:6 ) . |
| 7 | But it 's the only one in this area so protected . |
| 8 | ‘ It ai n't very good but it 's the best I could do . ’ |
| 9 | Not really the answer to the question but it 's the best I can do . |
| 10 | like that , but it 's the next one |
| 11 | He knows that part of my beauty is being alive , but it 's the dead me he wants . |
| 12 | Maybe but it 's the wrong one int it ? |
| 13 | But it was the only one available , since Jarvis did not want to let the other rooms on the second floor . |
| 14 | The hope was slim , but it was the only one she had . |
| 15 | But it was the only one of the 12 Community members to show an improvement . |
| 16 | But it was the only one we could get hold of . |
| 17 | Conservative taxation policies may have reduced high marginal income-tax rates , but it was the rich who benefited , not the country as a whole . |
| 18 | But it was the former which , as a member of the Government , he was really concerned to promote : Labour 's War Aims Memorandum was to serve primarily as a reason to continue fighting the war . |
| 19 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 20 | She had an ear infection and she told the doctor , but it was the first I 'd heard of it . |
| 21 | It wo n't get you your money back for you , love , but it was the best we could think of . ’ |
| 22 | It was a flimsy pretext and might not get me anywhere , but it was the best I could do at such short notice . |
| 23 | It would only be a matter of time before it was discovered but it was the best she could do in such a short time . |
| 24 | As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester , but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483 . |
| 25 | As a result he developed links with Hastings as well as Gloucester , but it was the latter which dictated his actions in 1483 . |
| 26 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 27 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 28 | We reached the first tall tree , but it was the wrong one . |