Example sentences of "but [conj] [pers pn] be [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golf courses might seem a very obvious use for redundant farm land , but where they are most needed — in the crowded South East — they have met most resistance from the environmental and Nimby ( not in my back yard ) lobbies . |
| 2 | Timeshare is not normally a solution SAVE would recommend for a historic house because so much of the expenditure goes on pure marketing , leaving too little for the building , but where it is well organized the outcome may be satisfactory . |
| 3 | In fact , it seems that neither the initial conditions nor the values of the parameters in the theory are arbitrary but that they are somehow chosen or picked out very carefully . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , after the first six or seven freebies things got a little hazy and I understand that I told everyone that Singh and his brothers ( no relation ) were indeed going to build a superstore on ‘ The Tip ’ , but that they were also going to spend £2,000,000 on a new stadium for Athletico to be built on top of Mitchley cemetery . |
| 5 | I really did feel like a Queen for a moment , well , even longer when I found it was not a flash in the pan , but that they were really going to stay with us . |
| 6 | As we have already said , a creation myth which was symbolically true would have to convey that neither woman nor man was present before the other ; moreover , not that they were created out of dust but that they were integrally related to the rest of the animal creation . |
| 7 | It means that we are not only working to enable children to have access to information , knowledge , and literature ( with or without a capital letter ) but that we are also helping them to develop critical and independent thinking . |
| 8 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 9 | I must have said something about being in reasonably , good health despite a rather dismal daily round of commuting to Charing Cross and a crawl by bus up the King 's Road to the appropriately named World 's End pub , but that I was more tormented at that time with a clash of affections with two young ladies . |
| 10 | To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval . |
| 11 | If Alice were marrying one of the Irish Guards on duty at Buckingham Palace today , she would probably comment , not that his life is ‘ terrible hard ’ ( though of course training is tough ) , but that it is terribly varied . |
| 12 | The popularity of Wade 's sculpture was probably due not only to the fact that it was always comprehensible but that it was both ennobling and restrained in equal measure . |
| 13 | Not just caused by them but that it was intentionally set . |
| 14 | but that she was also winning something of a reputation as a tough cookie , a determined career girl refusing to be deflected from her dreams . |
| 15 | Her manner said that this was a thing of great indifference to her , but that she was just setting the record straight . |
| 16 | But once it is formally rejected , the SWD could press for the money to be held in trust until the children are 18 . |
| 17 | If the puppy has done nothing after five or 10 minutes , follow the same routine , but once you are inside remain more watchful . |
| 18 | We went to see Antigone in Greek but although we were well primed beforehand you ca n't follow it without a crib . |
| 19 | But and I are so used to early rising now that we were awake betimes as usual . |
| 20 | Well no , but and I were just thinking well why ca n't it just be all things together that make us what we are and when you 're trying to find a single thing , the only single thing is the one , which is the unity and then there 's no differentiation but I do n't think that , that we are , we are our body as well and that then can affect the soul you know , if you , if you 've got a big nose and all your life people stare at you you 're gon na , you 're not going to be unaffected by it . |
| 21 | But if we are both determined to mislead him , he is not likely to make much headway . |
| 22 | ‘ These panes of glass are bullet proof and will not shatter , but if they are badly weakened a large , frightened animal like a bear may be able to force its way through and the consequences would be very severe ’ . |
| 23 | But if they are really to grow and prosper , they need access to private capital , freed from the constraints of public ownership . |
| 24 | And you do something pretty clever with it usually but if they 're just added , one bit at a time . |
| 25 | But if they 're completely alienated , |
| 26 | But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same . |
| 27 | But if they were always selling their stock at genuine bargain prices , they would never make any money . |
| 28 | If I 'm looking for anything I prefer to shop in , but if I 'm just browsing I do n't mind going like out of the town , down to or up to for a day but , if I 'm looking for something particular I prefer to stay in cos I know where to go . |
| 29 | A chap may think he 's in control of himself but if he 's really attracted to a girl , it 's not so easy to stop at … well , just kissing . ’ |
| 30 | But if he 's there give it to him an , an an , an , tell him , you do n't want that sort of thing ! |