Example sentences of "[vb pp] but [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well the notes are grouped but you 're gon na add the . |
| 2 | Unlike serious pollsters , the brewer 's flaccid organ fails to report the size of the sample of Scousers interviewed but it is believed to be adjacent to the number of fans at a Tranmere Rovers away match . |
| 3 | The Cabinet had agreed on March 20 that Decree No. 42 should be discarded but it was understood that some members of the Cabinet favoured new press legislation to replace the decree , while others thought that the existing criminal code was enough to ensure a responsible press . |
| 4 | He said the incidents where cars had windows smashed but nothing was taken could have meant the would-be thieves were disturbed or got scared . |
| 5 | A number of options were considered but it was decided that continuity and experience were important and the services provided by Westminster Strategy were highly regarded and ought to continue . |
| 6 | Both stations were searched but nothing was found . |
| 7 | Several other careful experiments looking for helium had been done but nothing was found . |
| 8 | ‘ Greatly simplified calculations were done but it was realised that they left out many important factors and were therefore quite unreliable . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't walk far on my leg now because it 's a bit twisted but I 'm having physiotherapy . |
| 10 | Bentham 's criticisms of social contract theory had been accepted but nothing was put in its place . |
| 11 | The only difference they were very well written but they were signed you know Mohammed and which were names I used to go there . |
| 12 | In 1741–7 a new church was built but it was destroyed by earthquake in 1748 . |
| 13 | A thorough search was made but nothing was found . |
| 14 | No proposals were actually adopted but it was agreed to examine them further in working groups and at the fourth ASEAN summit due to be held in Singapore on Jan. 27-28 , 1992 . |
| 15 | The house was ransacked but nothing was taken . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've always danced and sung but I 'm having intensive training for both now , ’ says Jonathon . |
| 17 | The home that Abigail Pilmay built in 1682 has now been demolished but it was remembered in the 1920s as having the name Pot House . |
| 18 | The flowers were tight budded but one was beginning to open and a transitory evocation of summer came to her , bringing with it an old anxiety . |
| 19 | No breach of confidence was alleged but there was said to be a contract not to publish before the report . |
| 20 | The applicants were not consulted but they were told the minimum period of imprisonment they would have to serve before their cases would be reviewed . |
| 21 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 22 | A quote has been received but it was felt that something on a less extensive scale would be sufficient . |
| 23 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 24 | But the Working Party did not need to dally with morbidity indicators , since ‘ the reasons for the pattern of differential Regional mortality are not wholly understood but it is believed that Regional differences in morbidity explain the greater part of it and that statistics of relative differences in Regional morbidity , if they existed , would exhibit the same pattern as those for mortality ’ ( DHSS , 1976b , p. 16 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes they 've managed to find one that is n't even scheduled but I 'm dreading getting stuck they 'll have to send me home in a taxi . ’ |
| 26 | The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) . |
| 27 | The origin of platelet activating factor released by the pancreas stimulated with caerulein is not known but it was shown earlier that caerulein and cholecystokinin are capable of increasing the incorporation of labelled acetate into platelet activating factor in the isolated pancreatic lobules and to increase the synthesis of this phospholipid . |
| 28 | Where he was educated is not known but he was apprenticed to John Marshall , a surgeon from Kilsyth , who was in charge of Glasgow University 's Physick garden in 1704 ( a physick garden was a source of herbs and other plants used for medical purposes ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Our funds are totally exhausted but we are determined our children will continue to derive enormous benefits that they have gained from their education in Dungannon . ’ |
| 30 | It does n't include the unregistered and unmeasured unemployed — women with men who have to maintain them or claim for them , and those whose dole is exhausted but who are disqualified from supplementary benefit because they live with wage-earners . ) |