Example sentences of "but [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's something the Gloucestershire Social Services Department recognise … but insist was brought on by lack of support and funding . |
| 2 | ‘ But surfing is the main way out for Hawaiians . |
| 3 | But winter was coming on and our fear was that The Grange would suffer further grievous damage . |
| 4 | Cambodians may have taken to democracy , but queueing is still an alien concept . |
| 5 | But fastening is a complete industry . |
| 6 | But singing is public . ’ |
| 7 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 8 | Given optimum conditions , Oscars will breed in captivity , but sexing is difficult . |
| 9 | In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide ! |
| 10 | Originally this was achieved by dipping , but electroplating is now the general means used . |
| 11 | But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack . |
| 12 | But dying is something else . |
| 13 | But Sobers is still my favourite cricketer . |
| 14 | Needs are few , but wants are many . |
| 15 | But explaining is . ’ |
| 16 | Yes but has is it um plain flour or flour that raises itself ? |
| 17 | Britain is due to have four submarines armed with the new Tridents but has been worried that recent votes in the Senate to cut funding for production of the missile could delay delivery of the weapons , scheduled to start next year , to the Royal Navy . |
| 18 | This assumption was universally accepted until recently by prehistorian and anthropologists , but has been refuted in recent studies of hunters and gatherers . |
| 19 | He kept Bulgaria close to the Soviet Union , particularly during Brezhnev 's time , but has been unable to cope with President Gorbachev 's move towards democracy and openness . |
| 20 | Mr Watkins can say that he sympathises with green views on the need for conservation but has been overruled by the troika that presides over George Bush 's domestic policy : John Sununu , the chief of staff , Richard Darman , the budget director , and Michael Boskin , the chief economic adviser . |
| 21 | An older and smaller satellite , the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) , has recorded the ring 's changing brightness , but has been unable to produce a clear image of it . |
| 22 | Tunisia 's main Islamic party , Ennahdha , was expected to exploit the conflict in the same way , but has been strangely absent from the streets . |
| 23 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 24 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 25 | Title-holder Parrott peaked early at Dubai and Preston 's UK Championship , but has been unpredictable . |
| 26 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 27 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 28 | This ammonite occurs in a fine-grained grey shale , but has been severely flattened . |
| 29 | The Eurasian steppes had its own bison , the wisent , which was almost extinct in the early decades of this century but has been rescued by captive breeding , and the small saiga antelope , with its peculiar dust-trap of a nose , in shape like an elephant seal 's . |
| 30 | You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item . |