Example sentences of "but [adv] there be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There is never only a ‘ core meaning ’ of an utterance but rather there are always alternative models ; novel contexts are being re-created with each utterance ; language users are continually establishing and transforming social reality in their communications .
2 But anyway there was so many people and one chap who he he was , as a matter of fact , he was organizer with Communist Party for whom I 've got the very greatest respect , the very greatest respect .
3 Not only do we feel disorientated with respect to our habits but also there are more objective measurements to indicate that the flight has disorganized us .
4 Matrix retaliated to some extent with their PCR/SlideWriter and more recently with the even cheaper ProColor but overall there is now much more of a market to choose from .
5 But now there was only one thing left for him to do , and that he did , before the shock of Glendower 's assault sheared deep into his ranks , hardly slowed by the few casualties caused by the English archers .
6 Illness had prevented her from going to Tenerife this year , but now there was always next year .
7 But now there were more immediate concerns .
8 What if you have a class of 32 and you want them working in groups of four , but today there are only 30 in school ?
9 Originally there were twelve counts but today there are only ten .
10 In 1979 there were about 3,500 registered SKB cows but today there are about 2,600 controlled cows , only a few hundred of which are really pure ( i.e. with less than 6.25 per cent foreign blood ) ; a rescue programme is under way and there is plenty of banked frozen semen .
11 In the past , it has sometimes been unduly prettified by directors , but today there is rather more danger of excessive uglification , of overdoing the grimness .
12 He was healed , but underneath there were still one or two bruised nerves .
13 The entire kitchen ( there must have been a brigade of 50 where one would expect more like 12 ) , belongs to some turn-of-the-century grand Parisian establishment , but strangely there was only one washer-upper .
14 But surely there 's still one problem .
15 But here there 's so much of everything .
16 but then there 's about four or five of them then .
17 At first I thought they were muggers , but then there were only two of them and it was the middle of the street .
18 Surprisingly , it follows the original plot admirably ( or at least as well as it could ) but unfortunately there are only eight screens to negotiate , leaving very little in the lastability stakes .
19 The tent 's certainly large enough for two people to sleep in but unfortunately there 's only one small entrance .
20 My EMI Scriabin recital is an exception but otherwise there were too many problems .
21 We thought that there would be something in it , but instead there were just bland generalities .
22 The pupils were allowed to think that they were listening to the voices of 12 different speakers , but actually there were only 9 .
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