Example sentences of "but be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not prevent him going forth , but am ever relieved when he has returned . |
| 2 | ( I muse but am too weedy to say . ) |
| 3 | One I envy but am never likely to possess . |
| 4 | I hope to start work soon , but am still waiting |
| 5 | There are occasions when we have grudged paying a top rate , but been too cowardly to refuse . |
| 6 | No one would place much credence on such a suggestion , but are equally batty notions finding favour with the anti-lead movement ? |
| 7 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 8 | They are very abundant on the desert surfaces of the American south-west , but are presumably rare localised in deep sea deposits . |
| 9 | Other things did exist but are no longer with us . |
| 10 | Unions are a useful channel of communication , but are no longer necessary , and can offer unhelpful encouragement to disruptive elements . |
| 11 | But the confusing plethora of separate joint boards on the fire service , strategic planning , waste disposal and other matters which succeeded them suggests that abolition did not achieve those ends These boards are now under no direct electoral control , but are instead made up of nominees from often compulsorily participant councils . |
| 12 | Those who do not reach this level but are pretty good can aspire to a circuit judgeship eventually , but the chances of rising beyond that are problematical . |
| 13 | Ratcliffe ( 1968 ) has pointed out that lower-lying areas of the Outer Hebrides are rather drier than the mountains of these islands , but are nevertheless much wetter than low-lying areas of the eastern Highlands . |
| 14 | Asa Briggs , who is also Provost of Worcester College , Oxford , says the new recruits did not always find what they wanted but are nevertheless important to City Lives . |
| 15 | They do not hold a light to the more flamboyant and colourful dendrodorids but are nevertheless beautiful in a grotesque sort of way . |
| 16 | Amongst the Zande , as we have seen , such disputes take place between neighbours who share many common interests but are nevertheless in frequent competition . |
| 17 | These do not meet the sentencing requirement but are nevertheless deemed to be arrestable offences . |
| 18 | These drums are quite extraordinary — from the colossal to the size of a cup , they make sounds and rhythms which are undoubtedly barbarous but are nevertheless compelling . |
| 19 | Codes do not have the force of law in their own right , but are nevertheless very influential when a court is determining the rights and wrongs of a situation . |
| 20 | As a result , the Commission — still with 8,000 officials , who may be well paid but are nevertheless overworked — is dealing with more and more material not only initiated by itself in its legislative function of making proposals , but increasingly at the request of the politicians in the European Council . |
| 21 | Orcs and Goblins almost overwhelm the remaining Dwarf holds but are finally beaten back at the Battle of Black Water . |
| 22 | The small denominations and sects are province-wide , but are particularly strong in Belfast . |
| 23 | The lakes at Pett Level hold rather small numbers of wintering wildfowl , but are particularly important during times of passage . |
| 24 | The visible stars appear spread all over the night sky , but are particularly concentrated in one band , which we call the Milky Way . |
| 25 | However , Hadjimatheou and Skouras ( 1979 ) not only reject the empirical observations of Bacon and Eltis but are particularly critical of the theoretical underpinnings of their model . |
| 26 | Instances where the motive force for the recognition of a cult site comes from the congregation are rare , but are particularly instructive for an understanding of the concern of the Church to control places of supposedly numinous power . |
| 27 | Agency officials in Geneva and Belgrade are concerned by the worsening plight of refugees from all three sides in Bosnia 's ten-month civil war but are particularly worried about the Muslims in the east . |
| 28 | And so often things do n't work out quite like this — either the offspring move abroad or , worse still , fall out with their parents who are then left with a house too large for them , but are either unable or unwilling to move to something more suitable . |
| 29 | Consequently , it is possible to identify types of information that are needed by language processing systems but are either absent from or wrongly presented within the dictionary . |
| 30 | They can be expressed formally in several ways , making use of the resources and notations of different logical systems , but are perspicuously expressed in just the forms we have . |