Example sentences of "but [adj] be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1942 an Inspectorate of Eastern Troops was set up to supervise the formation and training of the proliferating military units ; but each was subordinated to a German unit ; and although an officer 's academy was established at Mariumpol , Lithuania ( later Conflans , France ) , the units were never assembled into tactical formations , and were largely posted on occupation duties to Western and Southern Europe . |
| 2 | But Labour was shaken to the core by a passionate battle for the deputy leadership ( a post originally created to placate Herbert Morrison after 1951 ) between Denis Healey and Tony Benn . |
| 3 | She had her head on her hands , but neither was attached to her body . |
| 4 | Yeah but that 's bent to one side . |
| 5 | But that 's going to be outdoors . |
| 6 | But that 's going to be withdrawn , and the lease terminated , because the council says it needs to cut costs by using the building for it 's own staff . |
| 7 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 8 | But that 's seems to be what a lot of the people round here do . |
| 9 | The traditional method of slaughter by slow strangulation might well seem revolting but that is admitted to be a ‘ waning practice ’ . |
| 10 | It could be argued , on a theoretical level , that that should have been a concern since the use of SSAPs by businesses means that the compilers of the national income accounts are presented with the same problem — but that is left to the statisticians to resolve . |
| 11 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |
| 12 | But that was reduced to 118 by the end of January and he hoped the figure would be nil by the end of March . |
| 13 | Some regulars will be going to Coburg , but some are going to both . |
| 14 | But this is bound to be so , granted Quine 's case for the role of theory in interpreting experience . |
| 15 | In the approach used in this text , the E-R model is used in conceptual modelling because it is much more semantically rich than the relational model , but this is mapped to a relational model because most commercial databases are relational and it is more convenient for logical mapping . |
| 16 | But this is seen to be the reason why forces or energies are transferred or transmitted across what has continually been regarded by so many scientists as ‘ empty space ’ . |
| 17 | A caller to a newspaper claimed responsibility on behalf of the ‘ Commander of the Combined Forces ’ ; but this is reckoned to be a hoax . |
| 18 | Wherever possible he uses machinery to help speed up the process but this is limited to a band-saw , a lathe and a thick strip of metal known as a bending iron . |
| 19 | [ There is another Talking Tape Service — Lothian Sound , but this is limited to Edinburgh I believe , and concentrates on extracts from the Evening News ] . |
| 20 | We found that the decision to end a marriage tends to be unilateral , and is more often taken by the wife ; there is widespread evidence of regret , but this is confined to one party in most cases ; while some members of the divorcing population allege that divorce is ‘ too easy ’ , these people will often say that they themselves have struggled with their marital problems for many years . |
| 21 | The efficacy of speed limits thus depends on drivers ' self-discipline , but this is known to be lax , particularly as modern cars are neither designed nor advertised to encourage low-speed driving . |
| 22 | But this is belong to school . |
| 23 | The snowy owl assemblage has a deficit for the molars of their prey but an excess for the incisors , but this is considered to be an inconsistency due to small sample size for the incisors . |
| 24 | The amount spent on school fees is about £2 billion a year , but this is expected to almost double by 1991 . |
| 25 | But this was limited to the eastern half of the county since the Lord Lieutenant , the Duke of Richmond , felt that it would interfere with the traditional authority of the magnates , and local opinion in the west deferred to this view until 1856 . |
| 26 | The songs fell together in a muddy pool of short-sighted production : not a bad début album by any standards but this was intended to be a complete signal post in the history of popular music . |
| 27 | In addition , Wagaddon , publishers of the magazine , had its own legal bill , but this was said to be less than £35,000 . |
| 28 | Too much sugar was being produced , so the excess was made into aguardente ( sugarcane rum ) but this was said to be causing alcoholism as the unemployed took to drinking cheap aguardente . |
| 29 | A 1986 U.S. study found an increased risk to expectant mothers , but this was said to be a small sample , which was followed by two further studies . |
| 30 | The fear must be that Clinton might unpick some of the deals , such as the one on agriculture , but this was thought to be unlikely , given his commitment to moving out of recession . |