Example sentences of "but it be the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the Japanese manufacturers who have made a poor showing in the DSP arena — probably due in part to a lack of commitment and feeble marketing . |
| 2 | The , the report addresses the past and current G M B policy but it is the future needs of our members that we must plan for . |
| 3 | But it is the real powerbrokers , the businessmen and the politicians , who top the honours list and take their pay offs in peerages . |
| 4 | There is some truth to this , but it is the other qualities of cigarettes — addictiveness , historic price inelasticity and unusually high levels of brand loyalty — that make price cutting by Philip Morris , and subsequently by its main rival RJR , such a stark symbol of change . |
| 5 | But it is the enclosing mountains that are the most impressive and arresting features of the glen . |
| 6 | The blue chip authors are holding their own , but it is the new authors who are really struggling in the current climate . |
| 7 | This applies to all disputes , but it is the territorial disputes with religious backgrounds that are causing so much suffering , and which so badly need a completely new criterion against which they can be judged . |
| 8 | But it is the 50 metres high Grande Face which provides most of the best climbing , and the central part , with its three clearly defined changes of angle , must be unique . |
| 9 | But it is the ecclesiastical aspects of Sigismund 's reign which are best recorded , by Avitus , Gregory , two Church councils , and the Passio of the king himself . |
| 10 | But it is the Bolivian lines which most accurately answer Watkins 's idea of leys . |
| 11 | In some ways I am seen as beyond the pale , but it is the newer MPs who I feel most sorry for . |
| 12 | Creative politics may well have served the lads handsomely at their inception , but it 's the stupid sounds that secure their place in history . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Dinah , I would not have done so , but it 's the poor children . |
| 14 | Although erm we have n't we 're running short of these papers but it 's the same figures . |
| 15 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 16 | That does n't make her schizophrenic , of course , but it 's the little things , her paranoia , her unkempt appearance … and yesterday she was whispering to me about microphones in the lecture room . |
| 17 | The internal limits derived from the " nature " and " character " of the sovereign , but it was the external limits that were seen as of especial significance in the context of a democratic polity . |
| 18 | There 's still no overall control , but it was the Liberal Democrats ' night . |
| 19 | But it was the moral pretensions of Dulles and his policies which lost most credibility . |
| 20 | producer Mike Vernon , Gus Dudgeon , blah , blah , and this weird list of instruments like bass flute , contra bassoon , bass drum , etc and I thought this was very peculiar , but it was the early days of the Deram label and we used to do some pretty odd sessions . |
| 21 | But it was the resulting tsunami that did the greater damage : it lumbered away to the north-west , speeding up and gathering energy as it did so . |
| 22 | Participants I spoke to afterwards found the lectures useful and interesting , but it was the mock trials that made the day . |
| 23 | But it was the interesting ones , like Eva with her hard , taking edge , who ended up with everything , and in bed with my father . |
| 24 | But it was the old friends and neighbours , the Youngs , the Henstocks , Ella Bembridge , Dotty Harmer , Phil Prior and the comparative newcomer , Harold Shoosmith , who were going to miss Donald Bailey most keenly . |
| 25 | But it was the learned friars of the thirteenth century who discovered Andrew 's work and used it extensively both in France and England . |
| 26 | But it was the unexpected shots that would provide the spice to the story — like the ones she had just made of the little midinette enthusing as she saw the dress she 'd sweated blood for , if not created , come down the catwalk to the roar of applause . |
| 27 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 28 | She could sing classical music quite well , and play the piano , but it was the Greek folk-tunes I remember best . |