Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [not/n't] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I agree that the livestock information centre offers an excellent service , but I am not able to agree with the rest of his item . |
| 2 | May own efforts at making custard , on what I think was called a Hydra Burner , may have been forgotten by those who subsequently had to eat the awful stuff , but I am not likely to forget the watery culinary disaster ! |
| 3 | Hull coach Royce Simmons added : ‘ I think it was an accident but I am not prepared to say anything more than that until I receive any official notification . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Not easily , not quickly , but I am not prepared to abandon the ambition of having a fully working economy , and having a fully working economy means there are jobs available for just about everybody who is looking for a job . ’ |
| 5 | But I am not prepared to commit our country to a single currency . |
| 6 | But I was not prepared to drive new roads across continents . |
| 7 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 8 | But I was n't supposed to like her because her love for my father was buggering up our entire family . |
| 9 | I do n't think I was playing that badly , but I was n't able to kick it up another gear ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I 'd had newspapers , but I was n't able to feel inside the atmosphere outside . |
| 11 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm tired , yes , but I was n't prepared to leave you labouring under your misapprehensions any longer than I had to … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The object , of course , was blackmail , but I was n't prepared to play . |
| 14 | ‘ But I 'm not willing to break up with my wife and son yet . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 16 | I know that the message is getting through to gay men , but I 'm not surprised to hear that it 's not getting through to heterosexuals . |
| 17 | I know what is right for my child , but I 'm not supposed to say . |
| 18 | ‘ He is in the water on the other side of the stream , building a dam , but I 'm not supposed to tell anyone . ’ |
| 19 | But I 'm not afraid to go and find out . |
| 20 | And er the subject matter of the , the lecture is ‘ Searching the heart of humanity , to find the common bond ’ , which is of course , it 's , it 's just like my film ‘ Eternity ’ , it 's a huge , you know , it creates a huge expectation , but I 'm not afraid to step in front of people now and , and er you know , present myself and say ‘ well let's ask the big question , let's , let's go for it , so er so it should be quite a lot of fun tomorrow . |
| 21 | but I 'm not prepared to let , let him go |
| 22 | But I 'm not prepared to go on renting it . |
| 23 | Now I 'm quite happy to argue we 're twice as good as the Japanese , but I 'm not prepared to claim we 're four times as good , which is what these figures suggest . |
| 24 | I ca n't smell petrol , and I 'm pretty certain she 'd have blown already if she was going to , but I 'm not prepared to take the chance . |
| 25 | But I 'm not prepared to stay on here under sufferance , knowing that we 'd have to go in the end . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 'm not prepared to have this new expansion with all the congestion and noise it would cause and 90pc of people in the area will be up in arms . |
| 27 | ‘ But I 'm not prepared to restrain myself ! ’ she protested in desperation . |
| 28 | But I 'm not prepared to slice off six-inches for anyone . |
| 29 | Its remit includes addressing the needs of businesses ineligible for either the Official List or the USM but which were not able to raise sufficient finance on a long-term basis elsewhere . |
| 30 | But you 're not obliged to answer . |