Example sentences of "but it be [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If HaL meets its reported dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun which expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 2 | Therefore , in history it is not nature and technology which makes human society but it is man himself , who in terms of his already existing ideas and values , makes his own history , as he encounters nature and the problems it poses . |
| 3 | A lot of Alfie 's adventures are shared by his little sister Annie Rose , but it is Dad who takes him camping , very close to home . |
| 4 | But it is bait which hit back with bullets . |
| 5 | True , Jack is more famous , but it is Jet who is indelibly linked with the instrument . |
| 6 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 7 | " There are other things more unkind , but it is time I went . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ But it 's time you did ! ’ |
| 11 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 12 | ‘ I hate to break your heart , but it 's time I was on my way . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it was theatre which sucked in an eager audience across the channel . |
| 15 | Well it was a kind of fur coat but it was rabbit I think , it was . |
| 16 | But it was prostitution which continued to be the major preoccupation for purity workers at a local level . |
| 17 | Meridian B came close to winning several times but it was Forest who eventually scored the crucial goal in the last minute of sudden death extra time . |