Example sentences of "but it [be] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is Jonny who is the driving force , the black leather jacket may have gone , the cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen yesterday , but the earring is still in place and so is the intensity which stunned Cambridge two years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But it is Day-Lewis who dominates everything as he races around , long locks flowing and trusty musket in tow . |
| 5 | But it is Weede who really makes this worth hearing , keeping his balance with ease between sympathy and schmaltz . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it is women who are more likely to buy things . |
| 8 | But it is bait which hit back with bullets . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , the more snow , the more avalanches come down on to roads and into the valleys , but it is skiers who are normally most at risk . ’ |
| 10 | Indeed the covenant is important but it is Christ who holds the key to the understanding of baptism and I thought that you would like to hear how your work has helped us to see our way in this respect . |
| 11 | If musical politics now involves a constantly shifting ‘ war of position ’ , Adorno helps us to understand the enemy , but it is Benjamin who is more able to offer the tools to carry on the struggle . |
| 12 | True , Jack is more famous , but it is Jet who is indelibly linked with the instrument . |
| 13 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 14 | " There are other things more unkind , but it is time I went . " |
| 15 | The Doctor realises that there is no way the two teachers could have achieved all this , but it is Barbara who arrives at the real solution . |
| 16 | It is indeed a case of ‘ what you will ’ in decoding this and all other linguistic signs , but it is Iago who has made Othello construe it in that manner , and will continue to do so . |
| 17 | Yes , but it is God we obey , not nature ! |
| 18 | But it is God who gives the victory , through Moses ' intercession . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ We had most of the play , but it is points we need not possession . |
| 21 | All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power . |
| 22 | But it 's cattle you should think of in this country , perfect dairy pasture , rich it is . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We used to , we , that 's all the as the village life was , it was it was all very now I know it 's very interesting , my daughter wants me to write a book about it , she says , I said I 'll oh I do n't know mm , write a memoirs mum she said er , you know and I said you know a lot about New Invention , which I do but it 's Willenhall you 're interested in , but it all sort or entails the lot and erm there might be things I 've can I wish I 'd have told you if I can think about them after it 's finished , but it 's erm . |
| 25 | Yes but it 's noises you do n't notice , if they 're continuous then they become |
| 26 | ‘ Well , you 're better-looking , Connie , but it 's Archie I 'd like to have a word with , ’ said Joe . |
| 27 | But it 's Johannsen who 's dead . |
| 28 | ‘ But it 's time you did ! ’ |
| 29 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 30 | ‘ I hate to break your heart , but it 's time I was on my way . ’ |