Example sentences of "but it be the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt , Dej 's cronies had enjoyed access to the small pleasures of life which were increasingly denied to their subjects by the impact of their own economic policies , but it is the tawdry nature of men like the Minister of the Interior , Tudor Postelnicu , which is so unattractive . |
| 2 | INSPIRATION may not spring readily from the prosaic-sounding north Midlands town of Southwell but it is the black stuff that dreams are made of in the eyes of Ron and Richard Muddle , the father and son team of racing entrepreneurs extraordinary . |
| 3 | Similarly , the universe may not be in the state defined by a sum over nonsingular histories , but it is the only state in which science could predict how the universe should be . |
| 4 | It wo n't do any good but it is the only way that I can reply to your last love letter or apologize for that cruel punch at your face . |
| 5 | This does feel a bit like you are trying to blow your eyeballs out of your ears , but it is the only way to avoid disaster . |
| 6 | " But it is the only way to save the country . |
| 7 | The scattering of maps is random and often difficult to read , but it is the only catalogue to illustrate a Chacmool in the supine position with head turned that impressed Henry Moore . |
| 8 | In a way the proposal that the state of the universe is determined by a sum over only nonsingular histories is like the drunk looking for his key under the lamp-post : It may not be where he lost it , but it is the only place where he might find it . |
| 9 | But it is the actual icon that amplifies this condition when we are in close proximity to its form . |
| 10 | Both the silver and golden orfe make good pond fish , but it is the golden kind that is most frequently encountered . |
| 11 | The CNAA , in the words of one commentator in 1971 , was far from perfect , ‘ but it is the best procedure for devising innovative courses we have found so far ’ . |
| 12 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 13 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 14 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 15 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 16 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 17 | But it is the one part of the European Community 's I 992 single-market programme that stirs real passions . |
| 18 | ONE ELEGANT RELIC hardly describes the superb first prize that awaits the winner of our April competition but it is the correct answer to the anagram posed and wins that same prize for Lesley Allen of Hartshill , Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 19 | But it is the specific duty of public health doctors to ensure that the entire medical profession and those whom medical practitioners work with and seek or need to influence ( including health authorities ) are working towards improving the public health . |
| 20 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |
| 21 | By conventional standards , it is true , the inconclusive ending is a cheat , but it is the right ending nonetheless . |
| 22 | The excesses of Vathek do have some emulators — in Matthew Lewis 's The Monk ( 1796 ) , and even in the Victorian novels of Sheridan Le Fanu — but it is the polite feeling of Otranto that flourishes in the hugely popular Gothic novels of the Regency . |
| 23 | But it is the sad worldliness of the backstage banter which makes this play so interesting . |
| 24 | But it is the immaculate artistry of Michael Crawford and Frances Cuka that makes us care . |
| 25 | Several species of aphis attack waterlilies , but it is the true waterlily aphis that is the most devastating . |
| 26 | Analysts would dispute the ASB 's characterisation of their approach , but it is the unsophisticated user that Mr Bradfield is concerned about : ‘ FRS 3 gives the user a selection of information that lacks coherence and produces a number of meaningless headline figures … normally it will require translation . ’ |
| 27 | I think there 's been a lot , a lot of publicity for childline , now , but you are n't directly in , associated with childline Fjn Well , we 've had , no , we 've had to call ourselves children 's line because for er obvious reasons we ca n't call ourselves childline , but it is the same type of thing , er run in a similar way , not exactly the same of course er partly because we have n't got the money that childline er attracts . |
| 28 | it 's a s different colour , but it is the same size as that . |
| 29 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 30 | But it is the considered view of local authorities monitoring Docklands development that the residents of the East End are getting ‘ little more than crumbs from Docklands ’ . |