Example sentences of "but [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to stop the roots drying out ; I have not been ordered to do this but am using my initiative . |
| 2 | I do not favour either approach above the other but am using each where I feel it is most illuminating . |
| 3 | I attempt champagne again but am given but cursory attention from director . |
| 4 | I am no longer with the nuns but am to attend a day school . |
| 5 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 6 | I ask the steward ( who I notice has the words ‘ Love ’ and ‘ Hate ’ tattooed across the fingers of each hand ) for a glass , but am told , ‘ We do n't give out anything sharp here ’ . |
| 7 | I am delighted to participate in today 's debate on nuclear weapons policy , but am saddened to see that the so-called ’ party of defence ’ , the party of government , can muster only one noble Member to speak . |
| 8 | ‘ I attempt Tube but am driven out again by gang of pubescent boys who want me to write my name on various bits of their exposed torsos . |
| 9 | He had proposed to six other nurses , but been rejected . |
| 10 | Mr Gandhi may not have been personally involved in the Bofors contract , but his government 's clumsy efforts to keep the case under wraps have smacked of guilt , and the Prime Minister 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ image of five years ago has all but been destroyed by the scandal . |
| 11 | There had been a tremendous hash made of one contract by her predecessor , it was true , but that had all but been completed when it had landed on her desk , so there was no way she could be held to account for it . |
| 12 | They had arranged a tenant but been let down , and Signor Fixit had promised to go and sit in their villa , having let his own house . |
| 13 | How Brampton and Vechey had probably not committed suicide but been murdered and that Allingham 's supposed death from natural causes was probably the murderer striking again . |
| 14 | ‘ Would have been finer still had the invalids but been allowed to stay in it . |
| 15 | It is as though she had not died but been transformed . |
| 16 | By the end of the month the Republican challenge to President George Bush by right-wing journalist Patrick Buchanan had all but been neutralized , while the campaign of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke had failed to make any significant impact . |
| 17 | The staircase had all but been buried under the collapsing wall . |
| 18 | The servants say the doctor 's been three times but been forced to leave again without seeing him . |
| 19 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 20 | This assumption , although seemingly suboptimal , is consistent with the behaviour of individuals who are searching in static and stationary environment but are revising their reservation wages in the light of unanticipated changes ( see van den Berg , 1990b ) . |
| 21 | These usually share space with the pavement , but are delineated by different coloured or textured surfacing . |
| 22 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
| 23 | The big food chains are now showing more interest in buying British , he says but are operating in a competitive environment and need to define their margins and their supply lines . |
| 24 | They are no longer refusing to accept the evidence of their own eyes but are hoping there may be some sort of rational explanation for what they fear is an irrational event . |
| 25 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
| 26 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 27 | However , these ‘ schemes of experience ’ are not invented ex nihilo but are disseminated through the commonsense knowledge shared by members of the life-world , so that members come to learn the relevant typifications and their meaning ( see Natanson 1970 ; for an application of these ideas see Brewer 1984a , b , 1988b ) . |
| 28 | By changing the experimental conditions , social psychologists are not really exposing the instability of the child 's fear but are causing the child to be afraid in different ways . |
| 29 | Are not the truly appalling unemployment figures announced today — an increase of more than 53,000 , taking the unemployment total to more than 2,600,000 , even leaving out the thousands of job losses announced during the present month — ample proof that the Government 's incompetent economic policies are certainly not working , but are causing severe hurt ? |
| 30 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |