Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rational judgement might have told him that the nation 's plight was hopeless , but his was the vision of an avenging prophet . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose you will remember me , but I was the winner of second prize in last year 's Wimpey News Photo Competition — a Spa Day at Ragdale Hall Health Hydro . |
| 3 | It sounds weak , I know , but I was the dustbin of guilt . |
| 4 | I myself thought that the matter was one on which no degrees of murder could be properly invented and was very loath to move the clause , but I was the Attorney-General at the time and it was my duty as Chief Law Officer to carry out the decision of the Cabinet . |
| 5 | You might find this hard to believe but I 'm the kind of person who likes nothing more than to potter about the house in a pair of jeans and a sweater and eat spaghetti Bolognese . |
| 6 | But I 'm the rest of the cream . |
| 7 | ‘ But you 're the boy at Miss Havisham 's ! ’ |
| 8 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 9 | ‘ Lord in heaven , but you are the image of your mother ! ’ |
| 10 | but you were the person at most directly responsible for the provision of these figures is that |
| 11 | She was not the kind of person who was fun , but she was the kind of person that people trusted , and that was a fair trade to her . |
| 12 | I became a father late in life , and I know it 's a cliché , but she was the apple of my eye . |
| 13 | Tonight 's highlights , ‘ Cushy Daughter ’ and ‘ Complacency ’ , may be short on hooklines , melodies and technical competence , but they 're the kind of frenetic noise-outs whose energy is utterly infectious . |
| 14 | ‘ I know I keep mentioning AC/DC but they 're the king of groove guitar bands for me . |
| 15 | I love them dearly , but they 're the bane of my existence . ’ |
| 16 | Kramer points out ( as I have done ) that there may be the particular advantage of wider choice or plurality in these cases , but they are the advantages of a private or mixed market , not of voluntarism as such . |
| 17 | Cooks were not the instigators of winter sports holidays , that was the achievement of Henry Lunn , but they were the champions of winter sports for women . |
| 18 | He still told jokes , but they were the jokes of a man who could n't see anything funny any more , the jokes of a man with one eye on the door . |
| 19 | But they were the owners of the securities , and it was by their own mandate , which presumably they might have recalled , that payment was made directly to the beneficiary . |
| 20 | In practice , of course , few paper systems delivered all these benefits but they were the rationale behind their maintenance . |
| 21 | No one yet knows quite why these reversals occur , but they were the keystone to Vine and Matthews 's modification of Hess 's ‘ sea-floor spreading ’ concept . |
| 22 | He is advising on a draft bill for a new law to protect Britain 's archaeological heritage better , but he is the kind of academic to whom the government turns for advice on all kinds of matters , not just his own specialisations : last year , for example , he was responsible for the Report on the National Curriculum in art education in schools . |
| 23 | His family is doing all the work , but he is the bishop of this church : the cattle must receive his blessing . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , but he 's the nephew of one of our directors , ’ she said with a just-between-us smile . |
| 25 | I do n't think he will , but he 's the MP for Selby , he 's a conservative M P , but I do n't care what politics they I do n't know about what party they they support |
| 26 | But he 's the captain in charge , he 's the No1 . |
| 27 | Kendall has to take some responsibility for this , because he bought Johnston and Rideout , but he 's the victim of the decline more than the cause . |
| 28 | He finished up at at at but he was the under-manager at . |
| 29 | No you would n't know but he was the caretaker at father 's school , wonderful man , absolutely , he 's got god knows what he has n't got wrong with him , but he has sort of |
| 30 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |