Example sentences of "but they be of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're of interest . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | But they are of very common occurrence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rare words like whimsey and winter-crack do occur , but they are of the kind one may suppose to have local dialect currency . |
| 7 | I think a lot of the thoughts of Donald Steel have commonsense logic , and I have been much impressed by the work of Bob Cupp , the designer of East Sussex National and whose new courses , Settindown Creek and Reynolds Plantation , I was able to play during my trip to the U.S. These courses can be long but they are of generous width and , from forward tees , are playable for players of all standards . |
| 8 | The large mammals , especially the leopard and the tiger , are strongly reminiscent of the Woodchester Orpheus mosaic ( in drawings the latter are often suggested to be finer but they are of comparable quality to those of the Barton mosaic ) . |
| 9 | More work is needed to confirm these observations , but they are of interest because the changes take place in an area of the brain stem involved in the control of breathing , heart rate and temperature . |
| 10 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 11 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |