Example sentences of "but the [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headley Down 's Paul Whillians has won senior schoolboy motocross races with monotonous regularity of late , but the monotony was shattered in Saturday 's Bedfont Lake meeting at Four Marks where he managed no higher than third — a disastrous performance by his standard . |
| 2 | The Midland built up a cash reserve of £2bn to meet any run on the bank once the loss was revealed , but the reserve was not needed . |
| 3 | But the keeper was to blame when he missed a simple cross and Allen scored with ease . |
| 4 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 5 | The Yi dynasty presided over Korean affairs from 1392 to 1910 but the dynasty was in decline from the seventeenth century onwards ; and Yi ascendancy was distinguished by a combination of exploitation , corruption and brutality in which endemic factionalism predominated . |
| 6 | Hodgskin has frequently been described as a ‘ Ricardian socialist ’ , but the description is more ironic than accurate . |
| 7 | This provides for a sale by description , but the description is one which has been carefully drafted by the seller for general use when selling that particular product . |
| 8 | But the ministry was anyway not run by the maiden aunts of the BBFC but by members of the intelligentsia who took a reasonably broad view of wartime cinema , and recognized that effective propaganda was subtle propaganda . |
| 9 | Police said the name John Haydon was fictitious , but the address was genuine . |
| 10 | Firstly , retrospective studies implicated reserpine in breast cancer , but the drug was later absolved by prospective analyses . |
| 11 | The prosecution alleged that they took part in a plan to offload cannabis resin at the Norfolk coast , the accused maintained that they had helped to load the cannabis on to the tug , but the drug was destined for Holland and not the UK . |
| 12 | Much still remained to be settled , but the treaty was signed at 10 Downing Street on 17 October by Attlee and Nu for the two countries , Article 1 read : ‘ The Government of the United Kingdom recognises the Republic of the Union of Burma as a fully independent State . ’ |
| 13 | Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains . |
| 14 | But the ink was hardly dry when the ANC asserted its right to train fighters outside South Africa and to seek new recruits inside . |
| 15 | Linfield may break the transfer record to land Campbell but the mould is already in pieces . |
| 16 | It had appeared in Caxton 's edition of Voragine 's The Golden Legend ( 1483 ) and in Wycliffe 's translation of about a hundred years before ; but the sobriquet is reserved for the Geneva version of the Bible , first printed there by Rouland Hall in 1560 . |
| 17 | But the Pastor was undisturbed . |
| 18 | The debt is brought to an end , but the asset is brought into the lender 's group ( but not the lender itself unless the sale goes through a receiver ) . |
| 19 | Constant species are Agrostis capillaris , Festuca ovina/vivipara , Galium saxatile , Nardus strata and Potentilla erecta , but the Nardus is the most dominating species . |
| 20 | But the victor was vanquished in turn once it lost two thirds of its tail . |
| 21 | But the barrister was n't the only person in Britain affronted by its publication . |
| 22 | He formulated explicit definitions of ‘ necessity ’ and ‘ contingency ’ that are somewhat like the modern definitions of ‘ analytic ’ and ‘ synthetic ’ : ' The necessary is a possibility , the contradiction of which is impossible , but the contingent is a possibility , the contradiction of which is also possible . |
| 23 | But the rest is certainly of sufficient interest to warrant a recording . |
| 24 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 25 | ‘ But the rest is Hilda 's grievance , not Viola 's . |
| 26 | And when we get there , there 's probably four or five boxes to pack , but the rest is done , like books and crockery and things like th normal crockery . |
| 27 | The 207-yard first requires a long iron or wood , but the rest are all excellent mid-iron testers . |
| 28 | ‘ One of them is one of us but the rest are pretty good hell . |
| 29 | But the rest are too badly burned or in too many pieces to identify without DNA tests , and that 'll take time . |
| 30 | Only five per cent of the staves were of the correct thickness but the rest were nearly all less than nine-sixteenths of an inch thick . |