Example sentences of "but [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But surfing is the main way out for Hawaiians . |
| 2 | Cambodians may have taken to democracy , but queueing is still an alien concept . |
| 3 | But fastening is a complete industry . |
| 4 | But singing is public . ’ |
| 5 | But hawking is labour-intensive and time-consuming and hardly a satisfactory way of keeping rabbit populations down . |
| 6 | Given optimum conditions , Oscars will breed in captivity , but sexing is difficult . |
| 7 | Originally this was achieved by dipping , but electroplating is now the general means used . |
| 8 | But dying is something else . |
| 9 | But explaining is . ’ |
| 10 | Top Flying-boats had a glamorous image , but disembarking was often an undignified scramble . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody wants to get old , but ageing is one of those things that 's going to happen and I 'm just going to let it . |
| 12 | Rafferty tried to spit , but swallowing was involuntary . |
| 13 | This method of storage is an inefficient use of memory compared to a binary search tree or to the original word list , but searching is much faster for both the acceptance and rejection of a given string . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's maintained her fitness but racing is a different matter . |
| 15 | The previous afternoon at Wolverhampton Mrs Parrott had watched her West Orient come to grief when clear in a claiming event , but racing 's renowned great leveller came into play here . |
| 16 | But analogizing is an operation deeper down in human and animal behaviour than any kind of inference . |
| 17 | I am sure I an as guilty as most homœopaths of not waiting enough but waiting is not as significant with LM 's because the action of the remedy is more immediate . |
| 18 | Ben says I should n't feel guilty , that we 're doing nothing wrong , but lying is wrong and deceiving your mother is wrong , and feeling so happy and so loving with Ben is wrong . |
| 19 | ‘ I like them all , but liking is as far as I 'll get — have you seen the prices ? ’ |
| 20 | He heals a woman with a flow of blood , but haemorrhaging is a disease and is referred to as such : ‘ Be healed of your disease . ’ |
| 21 | She and Miranda talked ; Xanthe was at dayschool in London , but riding was her passion , she was learning dressage on a black mare with a white star and three white pasterns . |
| 22 | When I first joined Fleetwood Mac , Mick ( Fleetwood ) kept trying to get me to use a pick , but fingerpicking is the only way I can do it . ’ |
| 23 | Typically women become eligible for housing under the Act in situations of marital breakdown , but rehousing is not automatic , and neither is being homeless an open door to decent housing . |
| 24 | But having been once rebuffed , the Scandinavians set about collecting more evidence . |
| 25 | But having been called and commissioned , we should expect the programme to take shape . |
| 26 | I used to take bass for granted , because I did n't really understand it , but having been around Sara I 've got a much deeper appreciation for the way she fits into the rhythm section and comes up with lines that move around underneath the melody . |
| 27 | He was a very nice young man and did bear some small resemblance to me which I supposed was why his mother , perhaps not knowing who his father was , or knowing but having been abandoned by him , had woven this fantasy about a familiar figure from the television screen . |
| 28 | But having been a player there myself you can still feel the buzz of the bloke 15 years on . |
| 29 | The European Convention on Human Rights has not been made part of our law by statute , so it does not in itself create rights enforceable in our courts ; but having been ratified by this country it is binding on us as a matter of international law . |
| 30 | But having been so , they may emerge understanding what commitment really means . |