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Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I am interested in journalism , ’ said Thomas , who is staying with the Kilcran family in Dale Road , Darlington , ‘ but I am training to be a teacher .
2	But I am going to be .
3	I do n't know what anybody else is having but I 'm going to be bad tonight and have a cigarette and hot whiskey .
4	So I 'm I 'm not only going to be asking the conference office about what 's there , but I 'm going to be going and asking individuals even if we ca n't record your keynote speech here , will you be able to record us interviews , will you be able to record us whatever else .
5	‘ Perhaps you will , ’ he said , ‘ but I 'm going to be married in a few weeks ' time .
6	But I 'm going to be rich ! ’ ‘
7	’ No ’ I groaned , ’ but I 'm going to be ’ .
8	I may be entirely wrong but I 'm going to be reading those when I 'm allowed to put my hands on a copy finally .
9	‘ Lord , Ellie , but I 'm going to be fearful late for school ! ’
10	‘ Thanks all the same , but I 'm going to be busy tomorrow night … ’ she began coldly , putting her spoon back into her dish with a clumsy clatter which splashed strawberry and sugar juice on to her lap .
11	If there are friends coming to dinner , but you 're going to be busy during the day , do n't panic !
12	But you 're going to be finding out they 're all rushing off ahead and you have n't worked out how many twelfths there are in two thirds or things like that .
13	‘ But you 're going to be sorry ! ’
14	‘ No , but you 're going to be . ’
15	Ah , but you 're going to be getting some extra police officers by taking them off er , paperwork , er you 're gon na get two thousand three hundred I see in the press , well that as shown , that of course will be twenty three , but if anybody here thinks the Chief Constable 's gon na produce twenty three new police officers through reductions in paperwork and through the other initiatives the Home Secretary has announced , well I do n't believe them , and we shall have to wait and see .
16	But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long .
17	But you are expected to be competent with such material even if you feel this is not what you would eventually choose to work with .
18	To be eligible to win either of these guitars you ( or a representative ) must be available to attend the show on Sunday 29th for the presentation , but you were going to be there anyway , were n't you ?
19	But she 's said to be brave , tough , and very bright . ’
20	You say you do n't want Mo to be hurt , but she 's bound to be if this goes on . ’
21	But she 's bound to be rather boring , so they wo n't want to stay all that long . ’
22	She 's an even weaker fool than her brother , but she 's going to be useful to me .
23	Glennis 's voice falters , but she is determined to be positive .
24	‘ Little has been heard of her since Dead Rat , but she is believed to be in the South-Western United States .
25	Her identity was unknown , but she was believed to be the wife of an El Al employee working in Holland .
26	Fenella was thinking it , but she was trying to be sensible and practical .
27	There is no record that the Prime Minister had ever visited a prison , but she was known to be offended by the deplorable conditions and personal indignities caused by overcrowding .
28	And there 's no way that we are going to be in a position to change your world , but we 're going to be able to change it slightly , not change it totally , .
29	But we are trying to be sensible .
30	In Eliot 's poem it is ‘ While the melodious fountain falls ’ that love is made , but we are forced to be conscious of an artifice ‘ ( Carved by the cunning Bolognese ) ’ which suggests that the apparently primitive fertility ritual where ‘ The Adepts twine beneath the trees/ The sacrificial exercise ’ has become a decadent pleasure , rather than a genuine ritual .