Example sentences of "but [pron] be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age . |
| 2 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ he said , ‘ but I was there when something else happened . |
| 4 | They did n't find my husband at home but I was there and they beat me terribly . |
| 5 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 6 | I certainly do n't mind but I 'm completely but at the prospect of having to face them tomorrow morning . |
| 7 | ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment . |
| 8 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 9 | ‘ But you were there and your friends , you 're the same people , so you must be the same group now . ’ |
| 10 | Sophie well that 's not really a weird name but she 's there as well Bernie knows them all |
| 11 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 12 | But she was presumably as capable of lying as Ursula . |
| 13 | Sam tried to catch Evelyn 's eye , but she was more than usually preoccupied . |
| 14 | But she was more than just impressed , she was totally overwhelmed . |
| 15 | But she was less than pleased when the truth finally came out . |
| 16 | But she was there when I was a boy and even when I went to school in Porthmadog . |
| 17 | But she was there and you know , she wants something here and wants it there too . |
| 18 | ‘ They are a people who ask for little but who are enormously and genuinely grateful for any help ’ , wrote one official who witnessed a terrible drought in Masailand in the early 1960s : ‘ They live a hard life uncomplainingly . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Yes I was , but we were never that close . |
| 20 | Mr Major added : ‘ It is necessary to enforce the no-fly zone but there is more than one way of doing that . |
| 21 | Yes , but there is more than one culprit |
| 22 | Enterprises are constrained by the need to make ‘ adequate ’ profits , but there is more than one way to make profits and the general constraint of market competition by no means exhaustively determines the calculations of managements . |
| 23 | But there is more than one way of stating . |
| 24 | But there is more than one way of arranging differentials and we wonder why the board is so much more in favour of one way than another . |
| 25 | I scan the papers daily but there is less and less information and more and more detail . |
| 26 | A world of gently impending walls and grades of French & Brigand d'Amour and Symphonie du Nouveau Monde are said by my partner Johny Adams to be excellent 7as , but there are more than a dozen others ( up to 8b ) to try . |
| 27 | but there 's both when they 've taken two out with the members here and they 've got their , you know , money , they are left out then |
| 28 | We try to set ourselves specific aims and objectives and when it comes to marking scripts , for example , we have a quite specific mark scheme which has been very carefully thrased out , not only with examiners , but with certain school teachers , which we try to make tie this down as be as objective as we can , but there 's always and element of subjectivity . |
| 29 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 30 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |