Example sentences of "but they [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know the egg cups , I thought the egg cups were for the conservatory here but they 're for the conservatory in Fulham . |
| 2 | yeah , but they 're on a real roll at the moment are n't they ? |
| 3 | I would describe the Shoe-gazers as being a bungalow , but they 're in a … slightly empty tower block , where no-one 's particularly interested in living any more . ’ |
| 4 | The simple fact of the matter Mr Mayor is that vehicles coming in have got a very er simple alternative route and when they come down the hill they can turn left , go by the golf course knows very well , go round the roundabout and go round the roundabout and come in , alright they 've got to join a queue there but they 're in a queue anyway . |
| 5 | Erm but they 're in a position on a lot of the things , like they use our precision P n P two bearings in their dressers . |
| 6 | some spoons there , but they 're in a bag . |
| 7 | As for the white kids on the estate , they experience the immediate effects — unemployment , bad housing , but they 're in no position to understand or tackle the actual underlying causes . |
| 8 | Yeah but they 're in no as well . |
| 9 | was in the back room cos of the size of the fireplace and one in that corner but they 're in the way , that was only temporary while the house is upside down and I 've put two |
| 10 | But they 're from the garden and they really are rather good . |
| 11 | And do you know those advert features that they do in the States , they 're like sort of like half hour adverts , like they 're like shows but they 're like an advert |
| 12 | But they are under an East German regime now and using their training systems . ’ |
| 13 | No one in Kenya underestimates the amount of thought still necessary to get these proposals from the discussion to the operational stage , but they are on the table and they are exciting . |
| 14 | Various links have been proposed and discussed , but they are on the whole more revealing of the disparity between the two problems than of their convergence . |
| 15 | A less favourable note was added by Lady Fanshawe , who declared that the Cornish were , ‘ … hospitable to their neighbours , but they are of a crafty and censorious nature , as most are so far from London ’ . |
| 16 | But they are of a different order from the kind of personal crisis which people experience as distressing or disabling , such as the break-up of a marriage . |
| 17 | Despite some of the disadvantages outlined , low vision aids can be immensely helpful to some visually handicapped pupils in classroom and more general situations , but they are of no use at all lying on a shelf gathering dust . |
| 18 | Rare words like whimsey and winter-crack do occur , but they are of the kind one may suppose to have local dialect currency . |
| 19 | I still have one or two but they are near the end of their useful life . |
| 20 | These are not necessarily new , but they are among the best published in recent years . |
| 21 | They are not far from the south celestial pole , and they never rise over any part of Europe or the United States , but they are among the most familiar objects of the night sky to Australians , South Africans and New Zealanders . |
| 22 | Worthington stressed : ‘ They are not world football powers by any means but they are among the most difficult places to go looking for results . |
| 23 | Their basic motive is no mystery , ‘ they want nothing more than we all want — money , power , consideration — in a word success ; but they are in a hurry and are not particular as to their means ’ ( Ross 1907 : 46 ) . |
| 24 | Hacker 's point was that women may be in a numerical majority , but they are in a cultural minority . |
| 25 | Gray added : ‘ Huddersfield have won only one game since the turn of the year but they are in a good position for a play-off place . |
| 26 | ‘ When it comes to speed , there are horses who will go faster when hit but they are in a minority . |
| 27 | Union spokesman Richard Price said : ‘ People here have not got the result yet , but they are in no doubt what will happen . |
| 28 | The effect of this responsiveness is that they are well able to foster innovation , as they look for inventive solutions to emerging problems , but they are in no position to protect those innovations from fluctuating demand . |
| 29 | But they are in the valley . |
| 30 | Chemical reactions in our body involving oxygen give us the energy we need to live ( some types of bacteria , anaerobic bacteria , curl up and die when exposed to oxygen , but they are in the minority ) . |