Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [adv] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But they 're often excuses for houses , ’ explains an executive officer from Humberside County Council . |
| 2 | Holiness , sanctification , living of Godly life , living a pure life they 're not the criteria , they 're not , they 're not , God requires that of us , but they are not requirements for receiving the Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | The other unauthorised absentees were a mixture of small numbers of ‘ ghost ’ pupils , wrongly on the register , or pupils in trouble and out of school — but they were largely pupils for whom some authorisation was expected . |
| 4 | But they were never ones for the tilling of the soil ; and they did not make great hunters . |
| 5 | But it is still pie for Orwellian man , who suffers to save us all : |
| 6 | I 'm pleased but it 's not compensation for all of the trauma we have suffered or the money we have lost if we had invested it elsewhere . |
| 7 | The celebrations were for having pulled it off , but it was also time for many people who had been involved in the project to leave . |
| 8 | But it was n't money for clothes that she wanted . |