Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise that many of these are not high-risk areas , but they are areas that our officers have got to , got to keep an eye on . |
| 2 | Awareness of these features may even impair the participant 's practice but they are features that enable the analyst to understand , in a more general way , what participation involves . |
| 3 | But they were mysteries that would have to wait . |
| 4 | If HaL meets its promised dates , it could beat Sun to market with a 64-bit system — but it is Sun that expects to create a high-volume 64-bit market supplying both its own needs and those of its cloners . |
| 5 | This does not stop the play from being brilliantly funny : but it is comedy that appeals to one 's taste for cruelty , a form of dramatic pugilism . ’ |
| 6 | But it is memories that are all he can hang on to in a world of ‘ new men , strange faces , other minds ’ . |
| 7 | We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha . |
| 8 | Vegetables , meat , cereals and fruit all contain mercury but it is fish that provides the most significant input to the human diet . |
| 9 | But it is fact that most investment schemes are subject to one form of tax or another . |
| 10 | And then we get what 's known as neutral stress , these are conditions really that can cause stress , but it 's stress that could go either way . |
| 11 | But it 's money that keeps a Highland economy viable . |
| 12 | ‘ But it 's colour that is filtered . |
| 13 | ‘ I have taken to colour like a new lover , but it 's colour that 's filtered ’ |
| 14 | A loaded rifle keeps them in line , but it 's debt that keeps them working . |
| 15 | But it 's Berwick that intrigues Owen , ever since he discovered which side of the border it lay . |
| 16 | Both are built to last , for sure , but it 's engineering that seems more appropriate to BR rolling stock than a luxury car . |
| 17 | ‘ The temptation is always there , but it 's privacy that makes it irresistible . |
| 18 | But it was money that was on everybody 's mind in Baltimore that week , as indicated by the fact that inviting Mr Frohnmayer was an afterthought . |
| 19 | But it was Phoebe that she wanted . |
| 20 | But it was meditation that puzzled and eluded me most . |
| 21 | but it was Shell that ran into her |
| 22 | The gods could , up to a point , be merciful ; but it was fate that was all-powerful . |
| 23 | But it was NME that embraced the intellectual nettle most firmly . |
| 24 | But it was Signals that offered just what we need before settling down on Saturday night with soft cushions and iron rations : a clear summary , and the chance to fix on the central characters in this huge dramatic tapestry . |
| 25 | The draught oxen breeds already had the advantage of size but it was weight that counted and in particular the volume of meat in proportion to bone . |
| 26 | But it was trauma that killed the ex-RAF mechanic , Detective Supt Mickey Banks said yesterday . |
| 27 | Pat Williams told me she thought they were' a load of tripe' , but it was tripe that brought people into the cinemas for more than two decades and Ken became the staple part of a diet for which at one time the public seemed to have an insatiable appetite |