Example sentences of "but [adv] it be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until then the grist mill existed , but presumably it was then demolished or converted . |
| 2 | It was called the Psychological Club , but basically it was all centred around this one very strange guy who had interpreted Jung 's teachings in a very strange way . |
| 3 | Assertions can be signalled by writing " I would suggest " , or " I would argue " , but often it is just assumed that whatever you say is your suggestion or argument . |
| 4 | Perhaps he did finally but originally it was merely to defeat my father . ’ |
| 5 | I wish I could join him in the corridor , but now it is so crammed that there is no room . |
| 6 | But now it 's gradually starting to improve again , and we 're hoping that this will continue . ’ |
| 7 | In its heyday it must have been a good little vehicle , but now it was definitely finished . |
| 8 | But now it was all opening up a little . |
| 9 | There is no cure for this , but fortunately it is usually found that such processes do not occur in some fraction of photoionization events , so that the observed spectrum contains at least some intensity in an unshifted line , accompanied by various ‘ satellites ’ corresponding to the energy loss processes . |
| 10 | It would take the length of a book to provide an adequate commentary on Brian Leith 's book , but fortunately it is hardly required . |
| 11 | About one third of the island was devastated but fortunately it was thinly populated , and casualties were relatively few : only 1,350 people were killed . |
| 12 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 13 | But then it was only going to be for a matter of weeks , so what did it matter anyway ? |
| 14 | In a recent review of rural leisure and recreation research Owens ( 1984 ) has commented on not only how participation in rural leisure and recreation grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s , but how it was also accompanied by a surge of interest in applied research which has since spawned an enormous literature . |
| 15 | By 1485 , the English had rebuilt the Esk fish trap , but again it was quickly destroyed by the Scots . |