Example sentences of "but [pron] [pron] be [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not a lover of the verbal reasoning test , ’ he goes on , ‘ But what we are now doing is abandoning one system when we have n't perfected its replacement . |
| 2 | In the long term , yes , but what we 're currently doing as part of the assessment of the Finmere application is just checking the resources that do exist in those four areas , to , to make sure that we 're still able to meet our targets . |
| 3 | I pranced about and lay on the ground and turned the lens through 45 degrees and stepped in pore-scouringly close , but what I was really doing , what I was after , was a good shot of Stuart 's double chin . |
| 4 | But what you are really doing is finding the creature , for it is , in a mathematical sense , already sitting in its own place in the genetic space of Biomorph Land . |
| 5 | I ca n't get into the mind of some of the present batch of legislators , because they do n't seem to think thinks out logically , but what it 's actually done , or what it 's trying to do , is to make it very difficult to have an education system that is properly thought out , properly resourced and properly organized for the benefit of everybody and not just one or two people , and that 's one of the difficulties and that 's the difficulty that we any Local Authority is faced with . |
| 6 | But what it 's actually doing is prompting management to think . |
| 7 | provide something on doing erm etc. , and we call it we call it but what it is actually doing , it has halved the traffic , that 's what its about , giving us the back pedestrian , back but the traffic still come through . |