Example sentences of "but [adj] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the new approach may make the teacher aware of some lack of understanding of X — the originator of the innovation may well have a more comprehensive understanding of the topic and possibly a more detailed map of children 's paths towards it but neither is in fact essential for the promotion of the feeling of insecurity in the teacher . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 3 | True , it bankrupted the company , and you need a couple of sessions at the gym before you can park one , but that 's beside the point . |
| 4 | ‘ But that 's beside the point . ’ |
| 5 | Like Orcadai , he was more N'pani than Yek , and now he stared inscrutably at Alexei. ’ — But that 's beside the point . |
| 6 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 7 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 8 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 9 | Yeah but I filled it , I 've botched it up in a couple of places but that 's beside the point , it does n't matter . |
| 10 | and it was busy , but that 's beside the point |
| 11 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 12 | No , well Pat is gay anyway , everyone know is gay but that 's beside the point . |
| 13 | I keep saying to him , look Colin , I said , I know a couple of times a week 's enough for me , but that 's worth waiting for , but when you 're doing it three times and then get sick of it . |
| 14 | But that 's through high trees and up steep hills . |
| 15 | ‘ Only Colebrooke on his round and others to the privy , but that 's along the passageway . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll change a few names but that 's about it . |
| 17 | I suppose one or two people have got off with each other on tour but that 's about it , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Behaviour in a vacuum may be very interesting but that 's about all . |
| 19 | In my little collection , there are few christian names : Arthur Gilligan , Maurice Tate , Fred Root , Frank Ryan ( Glamorgan 's American exile ) but that 's about all . |
| 20 | But that 's about all . |
| 21 | Mick Taylor has a couple , as has Dave Plenn and there 's a tenor solo in there , but that 's about it — no bass solos anywhere ! |
| 22 | An hour on the workbench could make them play quite reasonably , but do n't imagine you 're getting anything like a real Rickenbacker for a bargain price ; they 've got the looks , but that 's about all . |
| 23 | Wets herself now and again , but that 's about all . |
| 24 | Really intelligent frogs might wonder if there is something which prevents everything happening all at once , but that 's about as close as they can get to it . |
| 25 | We do n't discuss sex , but that 's about the only thing . |
| 26 | Newton 's Principia and Einstein 's first paper on relativity would qualify , and perhaps two or three more learned papers , but that 's about all . |
| 27 | I mean you 're you 're gon na bump into your your neighbour opposite I suppose , both walking up and down the stairs , but but that 's about all really . |
| 28 | Stack provide three games on cassette with the Light Rifle but that 's about the limit of the support provided . |
| 29 | And the piano ; but that 's about it . ’ |
| 30 | But that 's about the domestic consumption . |