Example sentences of "but be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to stop the roots drying out ; I have not been ordered to do this but am using my initiative . |
| 2 | I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating . |
| 3 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 4 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 5 | This assumption , although seemingly suboptimal , is consistent with the behaviour of individuals who are searching in static and stationary environment but are revising their reservation wages in the light of unanticipated changes ( see van den Berg , 1990b ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 7 | The big food chains are now showing more interest in buying British , he says but are operating in a competitive environment and need to define their margins and their supply lines . |
| 8 | They are no longer refusing to accept the evidence of their own eyes but are hoping there may be some sort of rational explanation for what they fear is an irrational event . |
| 9 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 10 | By changing the experimental conditions , social psychologists are not really exposing the instability of the child 's fear but are causing the child to be afraid in different ways . |
| 11 | Are not the truly appalling unemployment figures announced today — an increase of more than 53,000 , taking the unemployment total to more than 2,600,000 , even leaving out the thousands of job losses announced during the present month — ample proof that the Government 's incompetent economic policies are certainly not working , but are causing severe hurt ? |
| 12 | Widowers ' pensions are less common , but are spreading . |
| 13 | ‘ Customers seem to be willing to buy as many flavours of Windows as Microsoft wants to sell , but are balking at buying more than one flavour of network . ’ |
| 14 | They are not profit making organisations but are providing an essential service to the community . |
| 15 | It should be noted also that many sociologists would argue-particularly Goode , for example ( Goode , 1970 ) — that these changes are not simply confined to Britain and the United States but are taking place throughout the world , although at different paces and starting from different points . |
| 16 | The council now owns the church , the house next door and a shop in front but are looking for ideas and offers of ownership . |
| 17 | With daughter , Jenny , aged eight , and son Alex , aged six , they live at Hexham but are looking for a home in the Darlington area . |
| 18 | What concerns me is that the vast majority are not coming to enjoy the Park but are using the roads as convenient thoroughfares . |
| 19 | From this you can see that there is a major difference between our approach and the conventional science park , in that we are not undertaking speculative development , but are using what is termed internally within the University as ‘ the incremental approach ’ . |
| 20 | It has been suggested further that corporate ambitions extend beyond influencing the detail of regulation , with Reagan for instance claiming that ‘ … corporations are not only much concerned to protect their own immediate legislative interests , but are reaching out in an attempt to create a business-oriented political and social framework within which all public decision-making would be constrained . |
| 21 | Everton got off to good start but are slipping down the table … |
| 22 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Universities and colleges are looking to expand their intakes , but are drawing on a shrinking population of 18-year-olds . |
| 24 | Wolverhampton will also inspect at 8am today but are expecting to go ahead , while there are no problems reported for the day 's other cards . |
| 25 | Very experienced nurses can find this difficult to cope with but are beginning to realise the value of such an exercise in identifying ways of improving care to patients . |
| 26 | It says Ralph and Denise are only too aware there can be no substitute for James but are beginning to hope that better times could just be coming . |
| 27 | Soviet steel mills need 346,000 tonnes of coking coal a day but are getting only 200,000 . |
| 28 | If you 're planning to do some wallpapering this month but are dreading the thought , do n't panic — help is at hand . |
| 29 | Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have printed new currencies ( both called the manat ) , but are dithering over when to introduce them . |
| 30 | Nurse prescribing should be an important component of care for those who have long-term continuing needs , but are living in the community . |