Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mathematician Aristarchus suggested that the problem could be simplified if all the planets , including Earth , were to orbit the Sun but , after much controversy , his argument was lost . |
| 2 | The most common defence against feeling for hospital doctors is to see the symptom but not the patient . |
| 3 | Mr Dorman said : ‘ The way forward is to attract the youngsters but we have to get them at an early age . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Our priority is to win the league but this match is our most important so far . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |
| 6 | The government maintains that the purpose of the hunt is to cull the herds but evidence suggests otherwise . |
| 7 | The next stage ( 1925 ) was to increase the pension but make it conditional on having paid certain contributions , which were compulsory below a given income . |
| 8 | He said it was to discuss the children but what was there to discuss ? |
| 9 | Our prime aim was to climb the mountain but the BBC camera team and the Mail on Sunday journalist were primarily interested in hunting the yeti . |