Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 2 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 3 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate . |
| 5 | In France , the Socialist Party has been all but destroyed by crushing defeat in the general election in March . |
| 6 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 7 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
| 8 | So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible . |
| 9 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 10 | In short , the unprecedented growth in world trade referred to earlier has been all but curtailed . |
| 11 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 12 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 13 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 14 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 15 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 16 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 17 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 18 | We had been outside the village of El Ouata — we would have been inside but for him . |
| 19 | It is not easy to understand why it should have been so but France south of the Loire was undoubtedly the seedbed of the whole " courtly love " movement . |
| 20 | Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible . |
| 21 | ‘ I would have loved to have been there but I just can not get around now . |
| 22 | The late Lorna Bloxam , 11 at the time , is also known to have been there but sadly her detailed memories are not recorded . |
| 23 | Cos in one respect I 'd rather do what I think is enough but er than too much and then feel like a bloated little |
| 24 | He had been briefly but sincerely mourned . |
| 25 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 26 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 27 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 28 | The last dynasty of legitimate Judaic monarchs had been all but extinguished . |
| 29 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 30 | The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly . |