Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |
| 2 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 3 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 4 | But she was on this chair so when I came back cos she , I sat over there . |
| 5 | Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman , but she was in some way comfortable . |
| 6 | I was the goodie and he was n't exactly the baddie , but we were against each other all the time . |
| 7 | ‘ But we were in some trees , and so — ’ He made a motion with one finger across his throat . |
| 8 | They overlap but they 're to some extent slightly different criteria . |
| 9 | No , the the well some of them are , those particular ones some of them are joined but they are to all intents and purposes separate in that they can be er , rented out separately they 're not tied to the house erm in that they are they go with it but the housing department have the opportunity to rent them to whoever applies for them . |
| 10 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 11 | But they were on this bonus system you know , they were you know on the bonus but they were n't quarry men . |
| 12 | Of course Oswald Mosley , our own exponent of Fascism , went a bit far in that direction , but he was worth some support if he stuck to the Mile End Road and did n't provoke clashes in such cherished halls of entertainment as Olympia and the Albert Hall . |
| 13 | But he was in any event fascinated by his childhood and adolescence , and by the time he died this juvenile field had been fruitfully tilled and probably exhausted . |
| 14 | I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book . |
| 15 | But it is with this group that antiracism can be most readily identified and we need to examine it on its own terms and in its relationship to other more easily identifiable class groupings . |
| 16 | Local education authorities have considerable flexibility to provide additional assistance to small primary schools , through the small school protection factor , but it is for each authority to devise its own scheme and to choose its priorities within that scheme in the light of local needs . |
| 17 | In other words , it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat , but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus , or in the same family . |
| 18 | Man works far below his capacity ; some writers have put a figure on the deficiency but it is of little value to you to make quantitative estimates . |
| 19 | The earliest aryballoi have abstract linear decoration , but it is on this shape , linked to the eastern trade , that the first oriental motives appear in Greek vase-decoration , perhaps not long after the middle of the eighth century . |
| 20 | But it is at this point that an Aristotelian-type argument fails to be able to deal with the most difficult questions about autonomy . |
| 21 | Once again there are many names to choose from but it is at this point that the design of the Amstrad PC starts to interfere . |
| 22 | But it is in many ways an odd , unbalanced discography , one that would have puzzled Byrd himself , and which puzzles those who know the true length and breadth of Byrd 's achievement . |
| 23 | Arcturus can be found by following round the curve of Ursa Major , but it is in any case quite unmistakable ; it has a K-type spectrum , and is a lovely light orange , so that in binoculars it is beautiful . |
| 24 | Which motive was dominant can only be a matter of opinion , but it is in any case unrealistic to grade them too rigorously . |
| 25 | Which motive was dominant can only be a matter of opinion , but it is in any case unrealistic to grade them too rigorously . |
| 26 | It is one thing to attack the Soviet system or Third World countries not yet under the sway of Western democracies ( and business ) , but it is in these countries that the gospel is spreading like wildfire . |
| 27 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 28 | Jane : No I did n't is certainly confrontational but it 's of little interest dramatically . |
| 29 | But it 's like any job , it has to be thought through and planned out . ’ |
| 30 | But it was of less value . |