Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | that ducks do have eggs it 's possible they could of been there but they were n't . |
| 2 | Or perhaps this was part of some internal clock of hers and , at some moments , often weeks or months apart , Elinor was programmed to be briefly but definitely pleasant . |
| 3 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 4 | I wanted Gemma to be here but she would n't come . ’ |
| 5 | It is an ancient body of law , largely customary in its origins , which , since the mid-nineteenth century , has come to be largely but not completely codified in the form of binding multilateral international conventions ( Schindler and Toman , 1981 ; Roberts and Guelff , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | She wanted William ; she wanted to go home , she wanted to be anywhere but Alice Springs . |
| 7 | At that moment she would have willingly given her right arm to be anywhere but on Nathan Bryce 's boat . |
| 8 | Suddenly she was in no hurry to be anywhere but where she was . |
| 9 | ‘ It 'd be great to be there but I 'm not that fussed . |
| 10 | ‘ I just want to be there but , if the worst comes to the worst , the squad is strong enough to win . ’ |
| 11 | I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy . |
| 12 | I do n't want to go back to the Evans 's , I really do n't , I never did want to be there but it 's worse now , not better . |
| 13 | If anything , it provided some pleasant surprises — about , for instance , the ability of large crowds to demonstrate peacefully , and the ability of Hong Kong-financed factories in southern China to be all but unaffected by turmoil in Peking . |
| 14 | The need for equalization of state pension ages seems to be all but agreed . |
| 15 | She slid him a sideways glance , only to be all but felled by a wave of longing , and closed her eyes despairingly , swaying slightly where she stood . |
| 16 | It is not only thought to be so but it undoubtedly is so , and getting better in each and every part of the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Add the possible problem with the wart , her upset at being all but mobbed by the crowd on a very hot day , and her apparently being carried off a true course in the straight by Achilles , and you have a long menu of excuses or explanations . |