Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] but [pron] be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany has taken on board much of the Social Charter but it is its economy we are all trying to match . ’ |
| 2 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 3 | This has been the aim of a large part of mankind 's intellectual and moral striving but it is our self-awareness and not intellectual procrastination which is the key that opens the door to the self . |
| 4 | She flung aside her heavy bedroom curtains and pressed her face to the cold glass but there was nothing there , just the quiet , empty blackness which enveloped the families all over Cornwall who were turning the trencher in a thousand drawing-rooms . |
| 5 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 6 | I do sympathise with the problem that that the local residents have there but I I dare say closing off the road would n't be a very good idea but it is something that only the county council can do and the county council have said that they will not do this in advance of the southern relief road being built so I think that really is simply . |
| 7 | It was not very good scent but it was something . |
| 8 | The , the , there was a very old car , , one , in a beautiful car but there was nothing left of the car , you could n't even |
| 9 | ‘ Kathy was a beautiful girl but what was she doing with this man Bunny ? ’ she says . |
| 10 | That 's just because she 's married to an older man basically er she 's I know it 's a sweeping generalisation but it is it is a fact that and and she 's more your type |
| 11 | Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road . |
| 12 | In the distance comes the familiar note of a Deltic engine but there 's nothing scheduled . |
| 13 | Buying promise has a certain value but there is nothing exclusive about promise . |
| 14 | And the gardener there was always a permanent gardener but he was he had enough to do but the estate men would be sent up to clear that . |