Example sentences of "but [pron] be [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing is simply given and immediate . |
| 2 | It was blustery and there was the constant peppering by grit , but I was well protected and enjoyed watching the storm . |
| 3 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 4 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 5 | Delivery van , costing £6,000 , which Transom Trading ordered on 20 December 1991 but which was finally delivered and paid for on 2 January 1992 . |
| 6 | Glancing despairingly down at what — only a few hours ago — had been a crisp , smart cotton dress in her favourite shade of sapphire-blue , but which was now crumpled and covered with sticky finger-marks , she gave a heavy sigh . |
| 7 | I should have been here to meet you , but you were late arriving and I had an appointment in the village . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Emily has a quick temper , ’ Craig said , ‘ but she 's fair minded and she 'll reconsider the situation , I 'm sure . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Guest told the court that the case had to be seen against a background of 400,000 people in the United Kingdom who did not own a set but who were routinely hounded and subjected to abuse by the licensing authority . |
| 10 | ‘ But we were well organised and , defensively , each and every player earned his pay this week — even in an age of cut-backs . ’ |
| 11 | The earliest authenticated cuckoo was for years a literal early bird seen as well as heard on March 27 , 1936 , in Kent , but one was reportedly heard and seen on March 2 , 1972 , in Berkshire . |
| 12 | A telephone message may have come to say that a parent has died , a letter saying that a wife is seeking a divorce , but there is nowhere to hide and be alone with sorrow . |
| 13 | This month I 've concentrated on the standard gauge punchcard models , but there are also finegauge and chunky models . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But they are still surviving and they were surviving and still paying rent on land before nineteen forty nine . |
| 18 | A few French skirmishers returned the fire , but they were massively outnumbered and their shooting was wild . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But they were both committed and to go forward . |
| 22 | ‘ But they were badly hurt and frightened ! ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He 's known as a bit of a trouble-maker but he 's really helping and striving to make things work well . |
| 25 | In a rough kind of way he was good-looking , but he was heavily built and looked an aggressive type . |
| 26 | But he was undeniably withdrawn and pensive . |
| 27 | He came straight to us at the castle , and told us how he had found the body , and no question but he was greatly shaken and agitated , as well he might be , guilty or innocent . |
| 28 | But he was never mentioned and it was more than her life was worth to ask . |
| 29 | But he was there waiting and looked more handsome than ever in a grey suit with a white shirt . |
| 30 | But it is richly written and dramatically involving , well staged by Dallmeyer himself and designer Graham Proudfoot . |