Example sentences of "but [det] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's got everything except its own loo — but that 's classified information , ’ said police . |
| 2 | well then my Lord ah my Lord not all objective criteria and this I think is very important because you can have objective criterias as I , as I submitted last week that would be erm in order to trade in this market you must have capital of twenty million pounds and ten years experience , but that 's uniform rule , it does n't discriminate it 's objective , but it would be anti competitive because here you are setting up the most important market er in this , erm as they say in Europe for the project futures market and you 're excluding people who could be in there trading and who could be effecting the market |
| 3 | Only time can tell how news media will have to adapt to the demands which loom ahead , but that 's little comfort to an organisation plagued with financial problems and worries . |
| 4 | But that 's little consolation for staff at Tewkesbury , or the town 's economy . |
| 5 | Others are owed much more , but that 's little consolation . |
| 6 | But that 's mean dad ! |
| 7 | Maybe we just had a little bit of pressure , but that 's good players , they punish you do n't they , top players ? |
| 8 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 9 | But that 's one way round that 's possible . |
| 10 | But that 's one headache I 'll have to leave to my successor . |
| 11 | And I would suggest to you , it 's because it 's complicated , and forgive me if I have n't made it more simple , but that 's one reason incidentally , why in my document , I kept commissioning , the business of doing , and making the kind of hard choices that your committee 's had to make this morning , because resources will always be limited , separate from discussing everything that people would like to do , because they do n't always run together . |
| 12 | its exciting , but that 's one thing I really would like to work with |
| 13 | But that 's one thing I did , I used to tell the girls I said , Give them decent things , I said like that . |
| 14 | I sort of regard myself as a sort of a dual nationality now , but that 's one thing I 'll be looking at , er in the next few months hopefully . |
| 15 | ‘ But that 's dirty newspaper ! |
| 16 | ‘ But that 's great news , man , ’ Kenneth said , sitting back . |
| 17 | But that 's all part of the irresistible appeal of EMF . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've all been in trouble with the police and all that malarkey , but that 's all part of growing up . |
| 19 | But that 's all part of the lure , is n't it ? |
| 20 | But that 's all pie in the sky . |
| 21 | but that 's all seconds . |
| 22 | But that 's that area we were looking at . |
| 23 | ‘ But that 's enough theology for one day . ’ |
| 24 | He claims to be mad , but that 's plain sick |
| 25 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 26 | That 's right , that 's right , I , I tend to keep my watch to the minute if I possibly can , but that 's bad habit or really habit from the days when I was catching trains every day , and I 'd never caught a train with any time to spare , erm |
| 27 | The shirt 's a bit bright , and he 's not as young as you thought , but that 's OK. hell , Nick Cave 's no spring chicken . |
| 28 | the inside nought instead of the outside , or you could have it upside down or anything else , but that 's pointing North , you must line it up so it points North , right , now what bearing am I from you ? |
| 29 | ‘ But that 's another hour away yet . |
| 30 | No other recipe causes so much grief , with the possible exception of chicken soup — but that 's another saga ! |