Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has no time for interfering adults , but I was not to be daunted ; I stuck to him until I saw for myself that he had no methods and did not teach , or rather , did not impose . |
| 2 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 3 | But she was n't to be stopped . |
| 4 | But she was not to be put off easily . |
| 5 | But she was not to be beguiled . |
| 6 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 7 | Tried to get me and Adam away and all , but we was n't to be budged ! ’ |
| 8 | They are human , and are acknowledged to be , they can think but they are not to be acknowledged as authoritative , and if their presence demands such acknowledgement , they are bad women who should have been taught to hide or repress such demands . |
| 9 | Thing is a lexical item , it is a grammatical ‘ function ’ word , but they are hardly to be distinguished in terms of degree of generality . |
| 10 | These coins can be dated no more closely than the late 750s or early 760s , but they are possibly to be associated with the disintegration of Aethelbald 's imperium in southern England following his death . |
| 11 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 12 | She peered round for the nuns , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 13 | Refugees were seen as deserving sympathy and help , but they were not to be pampered . |
| 14 | But they were only to be offered upon condition that this created no precedent . |
| 15 | For a second , I think it could be Lucker , but he is nowhere to be seen . |
| 16 | That was as much as he felt he could cope with for a while , but he was soon to be ‘ prevailed upon by government ’ to become chairman of British Steel in double harness with the Tate $ Lyle job . |
| 17 | Sid James had n't made a picture since the one that was without the Williams credit , Cabby , but he was soon to be almost a fixture on the set , playing parts as stereotyped as Ken 's . |
| 18 | She looked round for Leo , but he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 19 | But he was nowhere to be seen . |
| 20 | In all , Hughes missed four clear chances but he was not to be denied and his 11th goal of the season came after 41 minutes . |
| 21 | But he was not to be deflected . |
| 22 | In Latin America other schools of thought have arisen , such as those of Masi and Orthega , but it is yet to be demonstrated that they are any more effective than the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of his Organon of Rational Healing . |
| 23 | We propose that that process should be concluded not later than April , but it is immensely to be hoped that it can be done far more speedily . |
| 24 | Alum Pot is a fitting end to this chapter on Ingleborough , but it is not to be inferred that the words and photographs adequately describe the manifold attractions of this wonderful mountain ; literally they only touch the surface and do not probe the dark secrets beneath . |
| 25 | The object of the executors ' year is to protect the personal representatives from demands for immediate payment but it is not to be relied on to cover undue delay in dealing with the estate . |
| 26 | That may be the way the world does its business , but it is not to be the way the Lord 's people should do theirs . |
| 27 | But it is not to be ’ , said a disappointed Don Watson , chairman of the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union . |
| 28 | You can pull this stunt on an MFM drive but it is n't to be recommended . |
| 29 | Usually only one of the delegation addressed the assembly at large on the king 's needs , but it is hardly to be believed that the remainder were content merely to be seen . |
| 30 | But it is now to be cut . |