Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] [verb] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 2 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 3 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |
| 4 | Well as long as you do n't mind the high mileage cars but if they 've been going up and down the motorway all the time |
| 5 | But if you 'd been playing about with your sister 's husband you might feel inhibited . |
| 6 | You will have lost your latest changes to the document , but if you have been saving your documents regularly , as you should , this should not be too much of a problem . |
| 7 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |