Example sentences of "but they be [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnsley are not known for their fancy football or flair , but they 're well drilled and organised and Oxford just could n't find a way through . |
| 2 | Yeah , but they 're also forgetting as well it is n't just the maintenance that it 's a long term commitment to paying |
| 3 | Each such index can be used to give limited partial inversion , i.e. of one descriptor at a time , but they are generally provided and employed to allow the file to be accessed in ways other than by the major key , rather than to carry out an elimination of master file records not meeting some search criterion . |
| 4 | These academics may be respected , but they are also regarded as tiresome . |
| 5 | But they are ideally cast as Captain von Trapp and Max Detweiler respectively , and their imposing stage personalities more than compensate for their limitations as singers . |
| 6 | The passing of the proscriptive Combination Acts in 1799 and 1800 is a well-known landmark in trade-union history , but they are much misunderstood if they are seen as placing trade unions in a novel position of illegality . |
| 7 | Most exporters would like to avoid exchange risk by invoicing in Sterling but they are now finding that markets will set the price and the method of pricing . |
| 8 | Many of these factors appear in spoken language interpreting , but they are better understood and training aims to overcome the weaknesses of the individual interpreter . |
| 9 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 10 | ‘ There were tongues wagging a plenty , I can tell you , at such a hasty wedding , but they were soon stilled when my lord announced he was leaving immediately , and — ’ |
| 11 | But they were ultimately dashed when China insisted that Hong Kong diplomats take second place to British representatives , thus demoting the views of the colony and effectively limiting the talks to the Britain and China . |
| 12 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 13 | A few French skirmishers returned the fire , but they were massively outnumbered and their shooting was wild . |
| 14 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 15 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
| 16 | Representatives were summoned to assent to taxes on a number of occasions , as in the 1290s , but they were also called when no tax was being demanded — in 1300 , 1302 , 1305 and 1307 , for example . |
| 17 | But they were both committed and to go forward . |
| 18 | ‘ But they were badly hurt and frightened ! ’ |
| 19 | The lively Priestley , on the right wing , created several Cambridge chances but they were either scorned or Maidenhead were rescued by their goalkeeper Atkins . |
| 20 | The lively Priestley , on the right wing , created several Cambridge chances but they were either scorned or Maidenhead were rescued by their goalkeeper Atkins . |
| 21 | Numerous L1 cells were also localised to the crypt region and to some extent beneath the villous epithelium in normal lamina propria , but they were mainly identified as EG2 eosinophils . |
| 22 | Already , there had been a steady flow of Norman families into the country from England , but they were thinly spread and had been given no opportunity to make an impact on Scottish society and administration . |
| 23 | But they were still rated as " other " , a race apart . |