Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather has been very pleasant on the whole — sometimes a little too hot for comfort , but there has been the occasional rain-storm which has been refreshing . |
| 2 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 3 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 4 | The doctor was n't the only security failure in West German intelligence , but he had been the last straw for Sims . |
| 5 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 6 | She had told no one at all but it had been the great dream of her life to go to Spain , the real Spain . |
| 7 | The decision , made six months ago , to uproot herself from England and move to the Algarve might not have been easy , but it had been the right one . |
| 8 | But it had been the easiest of the three days . |
| 9 | Some mental quirk had had her jumping — wham , bam ! — to an instinctive conclusion , but it had been the wrong conclusion . |
| 10 | But it had been the older sister he had gone there with , and had apparently abandoned in favour of the younger , more exciting girl . |
| 11 | but it 's been the old nut crackers |
| 12 | But it 's been the same all season — we 've asked too much of too few . ’ |
| 13 | With Girlschool reconvened , and the arrival of Jackie Carrera on bass , they seem poised at the beginning of a newish era , but what have been the high spots of the band 's history so far ? |