Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the passion in Glasgow he did not have to show his yellow card once as Rangers won 2-1 and Wilkinson said : ‘ It 's always important to have a good referee , but I 've been pleased with the standard of refereeing this season . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've been amazed by how much the girls love Graham and care for him . |
| 3 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 4 | But I 've been surprised over the last erm few years of all these young men erm who have restored this museum who , although were not even born in those years , have taken a tremendous interest in what went on and erm well their results , some of their results you can see here today . |
| 5 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 6 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 7 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
| 8 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 9 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 10 | Chairman , er I do n't often disagree with er Mr in front of me there , but I have been consistent in my approach over the years , er , wherever I 've had the had the opportunity to speak at political meetings and ministers have been present . |
| 11 | ‘ The bag is gone forever but I have been able at least to recover this . ’ |
| 12 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 13 | But I have been unfair to the typists . |
| 14 | Well there 's nothing wrong in that but I think be aware of the potential danger that if it is too long |
| 15 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 16 | Someone once said that you were n't much interested in politics except of the musical variety , of which you are a consummate master ; but you have been friendly with a number of leading politicians , including two British Prime Ministers . |
| 17 | But she had been right about the other thing , so maybe she was right about this . |
| 18 | Mrs Diggory was herself but little touched , Theda believed , but she had been upset by her husband 's woeful demeanour . |
| 19 | But she had been fond of Moira , and guessed how much anguish the rift in the family must have caused her . |
| 20 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 21 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 22 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 23 | No but she 's been critical of lots of other people . |
| 24 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 25 | But we 've been involved with two specific projects that we 've worked on in conjunction with the tenants ' association , |
| 26 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 27 | A more accurate term would have been desktop layout or desktop typesetting and page makeup but we 've been stuck with the words he used . |
| 28 | It is difficult to plan far enough ahead for a quarterly magazine , but we have been quarterly for two years now and still manage a Calendar in most editions so please , members and secretaries … help the editor to make your magazine an interesting and informative read for the Institute . |
| 29 | ‘ But we have been faithful to the Carry On formula and that is what counts . |
| 30 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |