Example sentences of "but it be [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may not worry a small brewer unduly since other effects offer greater potential for variability but it is anathema to bulk production which must couple closely to marketing and customer perception . |
| 2 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 3 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 4 | It 's sales driven , O K , we 're not going to say that nobody else is important , we need all the other members of the , the company , but it is sales driven , O K , it 's what it 's made of . |
| 5 | There is sly humour in the choice of an undersized , bespectacled , studious youth as the instigator of so much bold harassment of the enemy but it is humour grounded in a psychologically apt interpretation of his character . |
| 6 | But it is traffic calming , passenger transport , town sentiments . |
| 7 | But it 's self employed and you did n't want to be self employed by what you 've just told me . |
| 8 | JSL employs just 7 people but it 's pistols have been used in many top shooting competitions . |
| 9 | She did want it , but it 's Mark Got ta go up the town for anything ? |
| 10 | But it 's quaver beats instead of crotchet beats , that 's all . |
| 11 | But it 's nonsense flying in food to Ethiopia Bangladesh and all the rest of it |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's time to sit down to breakfast . |
| 13 | But it 's time to change . |
| 14 | You see , faith 's always a two way traffic , it 's not just me believing God , but it 's God believing me . |
| 15 | It 's not just me trusting in God , but it 's God trusting in me . |
| 16 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 17 | ‘ I was goin' ter call terday but it 's bin snowin' . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , it 's about twenty pounds but it 's X rated . |
| 19 | That 's a good idea but it 's offer to do a game . |
| 20 | The big Southampton striker does n't score enough for his country ; this was only his second for Northern Ireland — but it was Hughes tried a shot off the edge of the box , the ball cannoned off a Lithuanian defender and into the path of Dowie who rifled an unstoppable drive past Martin Kenas from 14 yards . |
| 21 | But it was pretext covering intent for all that [ Opie , 1972 ] . |
| 22 | The tactic worked for a while but it was madness to remain obstinately wedded to it while his son 's frustration increased and while men pressed for an end to political uncertainty in order to permit the launching of the crusade . |
| 23 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 24 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 25 | He thought the door closing might be Carey leaving , but it was Carla arriving . |