Example sentences of "but to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to be serious for a moment ’ — and he hitched his spectacles up higher on his nose . |
| 2 | But to be European in Lithuania or Scotland is to assert your nationality and the wish to get Moscow or London off your back . |
| 3 | Newcastle 's fate is now at their own feet , but to be sure of safety , they must go to Leicester with victory in their sights . |
| 4 | In fact , multinational oil companies working in the North Sea had little choice but to be receptive to the attempts to maximise the spin-off for UK industry if they wanted to stay in good standing with the Government when applications were being considered for exploration licences . |
| 5 | But to be capable of jumping in formation in the dark with full equipment and a bundle of supplies and then landing together in the right place takes some doing . |
| 6 | And I feel that it , it is a difficult bala in practice it is difficult balance to achieve , to be polite , but to be firm at the same time erm but and there are times when that has to be done . |
| 7 | But to be sorry for him would be a mistake : he lived his life to the full , and in all his deeds he enriched the lives of others . |
| 8 | Self-awareness even in an absolutely minimal form , is not merely to recognise oneself , but to be aware of recognising oneself as oneself , with much of what that implies . |
| 9 | Yes , I think as adults one thing we have to do is actually trust the wisdom of our children to let us know , to give us the cues to when they need to talk or express their fears in some way erm I mean that 's our duty not to stop them talking , not to stop them asking questions , but to be aware of when they may have fears . |
| 10 | It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property . |
| 11 | The aim in doing this is not to depress yourself but to be open to the possibility of self-improvement . |
| 12 | ( b ) to be able to appreciate the interlinking of everything and the force of cumulative evidence , and that what is done and learnt in school can not be divorced from what happens outside ; ( c ) to appreciate that religion challenges head-on any view that regards knowledge as something only arrived at by reasoning and scientific experimentation ; ( d ) to be concerned about conviction for or against religion , but to be open to evidence and to experience — not to have the answers all neatly sewn up , but to see life as a journey of exploration with exciting prospects and a sense of fulfilment in actually moving forward and , if necessary , changing in order to accommodate fresh insight . |
| 13 | Our Father says in His Word ‘ Do not ill treat the stranger but to be kind to them ’ Exodus 22 v 21 , which is right . |
| 14 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 15 | Much of the criticism was justified but to be fair to Hodge , he had been placed in an invidious position and , blinkered as he was , in some respects , he was correct in appreciating that a rebuilding of the Korean right offered the only means of preventing communist success in south Korea . |
| 16 | My application to join the RCAF was refused with thanks , and I had no choice but to be content with that ruling . |