Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the point is that if , if musicians go to service , they know there 's enough readers and if the musicians decide to take on part of that reading one service , surely it 's only courtesy for the musicians to say to the readers , whose lists are published months in advance , terribly sorry but we 're gon na do this this time , and do you mind stepping down ? |
| 2 | And then , in a day or two , she 'd say the homesickness was getting worse , that she was terribly sorry but she was going to have to leave Rome . |
| 3 | I may be entirely wrong but I 'm going to be reading those when I 'm allowed to put my hands on a copy finally . |
| 4 | I shall here consider three such attempts to connect past and present : firstly , that which I shall call a ‘ kairos ’ approach , in which the past is basically normative but it is said that there can be development ; secondly , that which I shall call the ‘ golden thread ’ approach , in which a leading motif is lifted out of the past and applied in another situation ; thirdly , that which I shall call an ‘ a priori ethical ’ position , in which essentially authority is seen to lie in the present but there is not perceived to be any fundamental clash with the past . |
| 5 | He is only forty-two but it is feared he may have tuberculosis . |
| 6 | It 's all so predictable but I 'm f—ed if it 's gon na stop me . ’ |
| 7 | Now you 're alright , that 's everything should happen there but it is not physically impossible but it 's gon na put staff under a lot of stress and we 're gon na have to play the game of making it workable . |
| 8 | , John ( c. 1770– c. 1843 ) , merchant service master and Antarctic discoverer , was born c .1770 but nothing is known about his early life and education . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's still alive but he 's lost a lot of blood . |
| 10 | We talked of all we would do when he was strong enough , and I put everything else out of mind and concentrated on being positive and cheerful myself , which was not always easy but I was determined to behave normally and to treat him as a convalescent and not as a sick man . |
| 11 | No doubt this could be made more sophisticated but it was judged better to oblige the user to adjust the illumination . |
| 12 | The exercises are becoming a little more difficult but they are having an even greater benefit on your body . |
| 13 | The idea is , is not to make any judgements about you people , for instance , the whole thing is totally anonymous but it 's to hear the state of the language as it is , I I assume , at the moment , and what 's going to happen is , they 're collecting a massive quantity of erm , of words . |
| 14 | I thought it was like driving but you 're sitting in the car properly are n't you ? |
| 15 | The instruments of war , the machinery that was necessary to prosecute what I think was , if any war could be just , a truly just war , these implements and machines are tremendously important but they are passing , they are transitory . |
| 16 | At first sight the children 's sizes look rather small but they are designed to shape not only the front neck , but also a few centimetres at the back . |
| 17 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 18 | The market is quite slow but we are selling . ’ |
| 19 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 20 | All in all , the task looked pretty impossible but we were determined to have a go . |
| 21 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're very funny but I 'm giving you a warning . |
| 23 | The book proved very popular but I was left with a nagging regret that my limitations with a camera had prevented me from portraying the district in colour . |
| 24 | I 'm not gon na rock too much but I 'm blocking the fire from you over there that 's the only thing . |
| 25 | Listen , listen , listen I 'm not taking the piss out of the point cos I know the point 's very serious but I 'm taking the piss out of the way he said it cos I think he sounded stupid but that does n't mean I have any disrespect for erm |
| 26 | That was all very well but there were going to be a lot of things to pay . |
| 27 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 28 | The interactivity does not in fact run very deep but it is pitched well to suit children 's interest levels and attention spans . |
| 29 | Price and income effects on housing demand are demonstrably important but they are ignored in structure plans . |
| 30 | Mine varied from too large to too small but I was encouraged by the laughter of the women around me and their urging me on with ‘ good , good ’ or ‘ work , work ’ . |