Example sentences of "but it [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is in 1985 and subsequent years that Sir Anthony finds the Department of Trade 's behaviour most lacking . |
| 2 | Now that 's a British map but it 's in two bits . |
| 3 | ‘ So was I. But it 's like one of those arcade video machines , sometimes you hit things you have to get through . |
| 4 | The journey is half an hour on the ferry but it 's like two days in the Tardis . |
| 5 | One bus the sixteen , but it 's like twenty minutes it 's like catching the bus from Moseley erm Village |
| 6 | When he was appointed is not known , but it was before 1496 , for the rent roll dated Christmas of that year shows payment of £10 to him as priest and Schoolmaster at Stockport . |
| 7 | Next day , Sunday — All Saints ' Day — Wycliffe woke at seven , but it was after eight before he dared get out of bed and peer through the curtains , for Helen was still asleep . |
| 8 | But it was in 1958 that he formed the central personal and business partnership of his life . |
| 9 | Keynes has shown that he and his brothers , six of them according to Florence of Worcester , appear in the witness lists of royal charters for some time before 1006 ; but it was in 1007 that Eadric received his ealdormanry , and Florence says that it was Eadric who had Ælfhelm murdered and the king who blinded his sons . |