Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurers are supposed to insure risks but not to take them . |
| 2 | People who are supposed to give service but instead give cheek , insolence , surliness , non co-operation , stupidity and render sourness , not service . |
| 3 | Experienced operators on site are able to detect failures but these procedures are not followed due to decreased manpower . ’ |
| 4 | me clothes money as well , I 'm supposed to buy clothes but I never do , I always buy C Ds . |
| 5 | You may not be able to reconcile differences but you will have gained further insights into the perceptions that others have of the school and maintained the personal caring touch ; and the discussion may well encourage you to take another look at your policy for encouraging complaints . |
| 6 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 7 | Erm I 'll be happy to distribute copies but perhaps I could run through that draft quickly now erm and go through what I would say are the advantages . |
| 8 | Secondly , the Bank gave notice that it would make its own forecasts of daily flows in the market so as to be ready to provide assistance but that when the need arose the houses would have to offer bills for sale to the Bank at prices of their own choosing . |
| 9 | NACAB 's expressed expectations may not be sufficient to change attitudes but some managers have found that tact , gentle persuasion and frank discussion can succeed . |
| 10 | I for my part would think it axiomatic , however , in order to avoid the risk of grave breaches of the law that in any case where time permitted , where major surgical or other procedures ( such as an abortion ) were proposed , and where the parents or those in loco parentis were prepared to give consent but the child ( having sufficient understanding to make an informed decision ) was not , the jurisdiction of the court should always be invoked . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is possible to have communications but no minimal acceptances at all , as in ALT ( c ? x SKIP , SKIP SKIP ) . |
| 12 | That 's easy to say Gary but where 's the memos , where 's the lists that tell people these things ? |
| 13 | celebrities , erm if it 's , you know , individuals at work erm you know er perhaps it 's appropriate to use pseudonyms but erm you know with celebrities I mean people do projects about , you know , kind of soap stars and things like that and say |
| 14 | If a local authority believes that a child within its area at any time is likely to suffer harm but the child lives or proposes to live in another area , there is a duty to notify the " home " authority ( Sched 2 , para 4(2) ) . |
| 15 | It 's fine to pass Acts but even a good Act are no good if their parents are expected to care for the child without resources . |
| 16 | Well she 's supposed to take Melkrom but she does n't take them . |
| 17 | IT IS GOOD BUY TIME BUT DO N'T WAIT TOO LONG |
| 18 | From GISSI-2 and ISIS-3 , addition of subcutaneous heparin is unlikely to reduce mortality but will cause 1 or 2 further non-fatal cerebral haemorrhages and 3 other bleeds necessitating transfusion . |
| 19 | The POU S alone is unable to bind DNA but in context with the POU HD it makes contact with DNA and is necessary for high-affinity , specific binding ( 23–28 ) . |
| 20 | It is compulsory to insure motorbikes but not pedal cycles , although insurance is available . |
| 21 | The auditing profession er argues , and I must say the audit practice board 's er er proposals are very , for very passive auditing , the audit profession argues that it 's difficult to detect fraud but on the other hand er the local government er act er local government finance act of nineteen eighty two requires local authority auditors to have er er er a duty to search for unlawful acts and report on them . |
| 22 | The wires on telephones are of a type to which it is difficult to make connections but there should be no difficulty if the pieces of screw terminal block are used as shown . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's nice to get honours but as long as Derry bring the Sam Maguire Cup home that 's all that matters — personal displays come second to the performance of the team , ’ he maintains . |
| 24 | Thing is , it 's alright to tell people but they have to s know for themselves to be sure . |
| 25 | As his lexicography has shown , Dr Burchfield is ready to acknowledge change but holds fast to certain rules on the grounds of avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities . |
| 26 | ‘ Looking at those over 16 , we guess that about 3m of these savers are entitled to gross interest but little more than a third — 1.2m — have registered . ’ |
| 27 | He was delighted to receive visitors but charged Mike £50 for the opportunity to photograph him . |
| 28 | Erm again i er the old story , we ca n't get speakers on a Monday and better luck in last year this year , sorry er I was able to get Danny but there again he came very expensive erm but we brought , we had to bring him from Lancaster so er , you ca n't expect him to come for nothing . |
| 29 | ‘ We could offer old tyres back to the people on whose cars they were , ’ said the man at Charlie Brown 's tyre fitting place in Darlington who was happy to give information but reluctant to give his name . |