Example sentences of "[verb] [be] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say what it would 've been , you know what the outcome would 've been but it would 've been different . |
| 2 | Erm maintain , to maintain contact is not as good as what it should 've been but that was fair enough . |
| 3 | is in contrast to the behaviour of income distribution , where inequity has been but little reduced during the same periods , and which shows extreme relative rigidity and concentration in comparison with the greater equalizing capacity of the educational system . |
| 4 | Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) . |
| 5 | Outside the courts , however , Pontius Pilate has been but one of many who have claimed , more or less sincerely , not to know what truth is . |
| 6 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |
| 7 | And for those whose familiarity with the Irish composer John Field has been but a brief bumble through the simpler of his nocturnes , to hear O'Conor 's enthusiasm is to experience some of the ripple of Field 's remarkable melodic flow . |
| 8 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 9 | Or what I want to know is but the question is |
| 10 | Of course if you are inclined towards more leisurely pursuits , you 'll find that many interesting and beautiful places to explore are but a short drive away . |
| 11 | ‘ The precept of dying should be part of the studies of those that live in health ; all that a sick or dying man can do is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired . ’ |
| 12 | Strove is but a tiny group of houses , a mere dot on the map , but it is close to many Tuscan treasures . |
| 13 | ‘ ALL THAT WE SEE or seem is but a dream within a dream … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream . ’ |
| 15 | The form in which they had found him lying was but one of many places which he used . |
| 16 | The examples that we know are but the heroic and visible tip of the great hidden iceberg of faith which is Christian conviction through the centuries . |
| 17 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 18 | Well I could have been but I could n't have voted . |
| 19 | Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that . |
| 20 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 21 | Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk . |
| 22 | Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them . |
| 23 | Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships . |
| 24 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 25 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 26 | I suppose there must have been but I ca n't remember . |
| 27 | The answer was he usually ignored them , which meant of course that some entries were obscured and the whole was not as clean as it may have been but it was certainly speedy . |
| 28 | It could have been but you found |
| 29 | No it could have been but it is n't . |
| 30 | O mighty soldier , O man of war , at last you have a cause for which you can fight without endangering your soul ; a cause in which to win is glorious and for which to die is but gain . |