Example sentences of "[noun pl] but [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 2 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Oh oh I just recorded that I was gon na keep all the words but I 'm only joking |
| 4 | No one really knows its origins but it was certainly used therapeutically by the Ancient Egyptians , the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 5 | And I would like to make another quote if I may , he was the one that talked about Scotland being the land of cakes , and brother Scots , where the women made the cakes but he 's only addressing the brother Scots . |
| 6 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |
| 7 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 8 | Not many redwoods , or sequoias , exceeded 3000 years but they were generally considered the oldest living matter until the development of the Swedish increment borer enabled dendrologists ( people who study the natural history of trees ) to age a tree without felling it . |
| 9 | It is the kind of system with which experts can quickly get to grips but it is also targeted at non-technical authors , enabling them to quickly edit text , sound and images either to create multimedia presentations or to produce interactive multimedia applications . |
| 10 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 11 | Erm but it 's go it 's gon na be open to erm , applicants but he 's already made enquiries as to his erm chances of getting it , th and there 's , there 's so many people wi already being given promotion but have n't got a erm a post |
| 12 | Formerly unliquidated damages in tort were not provable debts but they are now covered by the wide nature of r 12.3 . |
| 13 | When the woman put her hand up to protect herself the man grabbed two rings off her fingers but they were later recovered in the car . |
| 14 | The battle for respectability led to better cinemas but it was always conceded that real victory would only come through the production of better films . |
| 15 | In Scotland 60% of authorities noted some courses offered by local authorities but it was comparatively limited in scope . |
| 16 | They never asked questions but they were inevitably acquiring information that could be fatal . |
| 17 | I have written to one or two retail outlets complaining about them selling these fish , also spoken to a couple of managers but they are still selling these fish . |
| 18 | Please note that we have been able to incorporate our successful appeals into these figures but we are still awaiting the national post-appeal figures . |
| 19 | We have experienced quite considerable out migration er in the period since , and we do build in perhaps slightly optimistic erm migration net migration figures compared to the er O P C S er and and D O E figures but they are nevertheless accepted as part of this forecast the regional guidance , on the basis that we have a major regeneration problem in the area , to reiterate what I said this morning . |
| 20 | stuff I was listening to this morning I do n't whether that was one of the things but she 's certainly looking at areas like that . |
| 21 | With his academic background , he would probably have done well in the written examinations but he was never invited to take them . |
| 22 | Like Kos , Rhodes has many fine , deserted beaches but it 's best getting there by car . |
| 23 | Hyenas have always been thought of as scavengers but it is now known that they are also vigorous nocturnal hunters . |
| 24 | That 's what I say to a lot of people today , they moan about dockers but they 're only fighting for their rights . |
| 25 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 26 | But I remember I 'd got a box on my mantlepiece erm not only was I using the pessaries but I was also taking these when the period was due . |
| 27 | It was evasive about why IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard did n't show up as licensees but it 's obviously expecting their announcements by and by . |
| 28 | Computer aided instruction ( C.A.I. ) strictly should cover other techniques such as simulation and computer based procedures but it is usually intended to mean a situation where a student sits in front of a screen on which the presented formats relate to his developing cognitive activity as expressed by his manipulations of the associated key-board . |
| 29 | Software might be restricted , as in this book , to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information . |
| 30 | Chinese parents do , of course , shower love and attention on their children but it is always made quite clear that child's-play has to remain well within the limits of normal social behaviour . |