Example sentences of "be [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tachykinins are a family of biologically active neuropeptides that are widely but selectively distributed in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems , where they may function as neurotransmitters ( 1 ) . |
| 2 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 3 | The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how . |
| 4 | As many developing countries are slowly but surely moving from economies based predominantly on agriculture into manufacturing and service industries , and as Third World populations are moving in great numbers from rural to urban areas , there are concomitant changes in the structures of food provision in these countries ( Abbott , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road . |
| 6 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 7 | Chief call notes are loud but rather liquid disyllabic croaks , ‘ curruc ’ and ‘ kittic ’ and a ‘ kaak ’ . |
| 8 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 9 | It is not easy to understand why it should have been so but France south of the Loire was undoubtedly the seedbed of the whole " courtly love " movement . |
| 10 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 11 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 12 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 13 | The bedrooms are comfortably but simply furnished and have a private bathroom . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps you 're right but there are not many who would shift the blame on to a brother 's shoulders . |
| 15 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 16 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 17 | Yeah we know they 're there but they 're the wrong kind for you darling . |
| 18 | She 's alright once you 're there but if yo i mm mm if she does n't like then that 's it ! |
| 19 | Having said nothing about the er the charity erm erm the meeting on erm the meetings four times a year and we 're quite but there are some available for erm people erm and particularly to erm we agreed a list of people who wished to give them Christmas gifts , cash but I 'm sure they would help and and erm the names of people who who might need help er are always welcome so if I could just erm erm ask people to let me know if they know of anyone financial help . |
| 20 | Fine if you 're right-handed but then , not everyone is . |
| 21 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 22 | Just as assets are usually but not invariably founded on legal rights , so a legal obligation is a common feature of a liability but is not always present . |
| 23 | ‘ What sometimes appear to be new strategies decentralisation , management by objectives , consultative supervision , ‘ democratic ’ leadership are usually but old wine in new bottles , because the procedures derived to implement them are derived from the same inadequate assumptions about human nature … |
| 24 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 25 | Differences in level of skill are partly but not wholly attributable to different locations on a learning curve which has some uniformity for that particular skill . |
| 26 | The dramatic arts of masked dance and puppetry are also but thin excuses for shamanic possession . |
| 27 | These are often but not always added to a segment of the Latin name of the element ( see table 4.9 ) . |
| 28 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 29 | I was a bigger rogue then than I am now but Benjamin was as different as chalk from cheese . |
| 30 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |