Example sentences of "but these be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are other methods of storing food such as preserving , drying , or bottling , but these are of limited value if you live on your own , since , even if you entertain a lot , you would probably waste a lot of preserves or bottled food , as their condition quickly deteriorates once the jar or bottle is opened .
2 Searches in connection with equipment such as motor vehicles may be carried out to see whether they are subject to credit agreements but these are of limited value since a negative search does not guarantee the target 's absolute title .
3 Functionalists accept that social groups can have differences of interest , but these are of minor importance compared to the interests which all social groups share in common .
4 There may be problems of a technical nature , but these are of little substantive consequence for sociological theory which is capable of being sustained , or not , by data culled from a variety of sources using a variety of methods .
5 Remains exist of one or two stone Romanesque rotunda churches in Prague , but these are in poor condition and are , in general , small and primitive .
6 There are possible offsetting arguments concerning internal structure , but these are in any case not unambiguous in their directional effect .
7 Iron concentrations ( 3.5 µM ) could only be estimated in gastric juice because of unavoidable contamination , but these were about 15-fold lower than previously reported values .
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