Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but I 've been this is I 've been progressively pricing this account . |
| 2 | Because I could n't find anything under procedures about signing the job descriptions and indeed this persons specification total , I do n't think but I mean is that something like you audit it on , its that I am not clear who should award job specifications . |
| 3 | Now I can see the sense of that , you know , we could probably go to a New York lawyer on a no no win , no pay basis and take action agai an and argue that case , but you know is this what , what really people who 've paid pensions for thirty or forty years should be dealing with , you know . |
| 4 | The party managers continued to bewail the organizational weakness of Coalition Liberalism , but there had been little opportunity for organizational collaboration ; one of the few joint ventures , a magazine called Popular View , was abandoned in 1921 because of the impossibility of producing a lively magazine out of continuous compromise . |
| 5 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 6 | Before this , it was realized that quality had an impact on the bottom line , but there had been little analysis of its effects . |
| 7 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 8 | She had helped to pick up all the things spilt from the bag , but there had been that look in her eye just before — a familiar look , contempt , indifferently hidden . |
| 9 | She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them . |
| 10 | All 18 had initialled the treaty on March 13 , but there had been some doubt before the final signature that Baskhkortostan would sign . |
| 11 | Captain Pugwash is probably his best-known character but there have been many others : Harris Tweed , Lettice Leefe , Mary , Mungo and Midge , Sir Prancelot , and Cardinal Grotti in the Catholic Herald . |
| 12 | As examples of the achievements of these minds , I think of the Gandavyuha and the Sufis ' planes of reality but there have been many others whose level of vision is as extensive though in no sense more penetrating or more brilliant . |
| 13 | But there have been many more relevant developments in feminist literary and historical studies which are engaged in reconsidering the importance of the 18th century for the emergence of modern western culture , its class system , its gender relations and its racism . |
| 14 | But there have been many changes , as Fordyce Maxwell overheard |
| 15 | In general , education has reinforced society 's values , but there have been some experimental attempts at providing education to radicalise values . |
| 16 | Further north still , Canada has no major volcanoes , but there have been some eruptions in prehistoric times . |
| 17 | But there have been some increases for those living in the larger cities , which have been worst hit by the crime wave . |
| 18 | Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’ |
| 19 | Most of the philosophy of the transcendent is from the East , but there have been those in the . |
| 20 | I do not know how many men have since gone over the same wall , but there have been several even recently . |
| 21 | True , the two countries ' systems of choosing a leader and choosing a government are different , but there have been enough historic parallels to make Americans peer keenly at British elections . |
| 22 | But there have been enough jokes about the Clintons for the president to avoid any suggestion that he can not manage without her . |
| 23 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 24 | A levels have been the subject of considerable criticism over the years , but there have been few serious demands that they should be replaced . |
| 25 | ( Tie-in sales and full-line forcing could be caught by Article 85(1) but there have been few cases ; Article 86 is the more likely to be relevant . ) |
| 26 | There are a variety of sources ranging from the Urban programme of the Department of the Environment to charities but there has been much uncertainty about funding , the Legal Aid Annual Reports regularly referring to the financial problems of particular centres . |
| 27 | There is a host of community-related rural organisations in Scotland , many of which are purely social , or purely functional , some of which have broad ( non-party ) political aims , ( very few it seems make any attempt at all to combine social and political aspects even in a semi-structured way ) , but there has been little attempt to make learning connections between the assortment of community groups . |
| 28 | But there has been little legislation directed specifically towards women . |
| 29 | The fall-off curves away from such centres of consumption imply that the redistribution of such goods was controlled , but there has been little research carried out to determine the patterns of dispersal in any more detail . |
| 30 | The concept of risk has been recognized as important in so far as older people have been defined as dependent or vulnerable ( Stevenson , 1989 ) but there has been little systematic analysis of risk , risk-tolerance and risk-management in relation to older people ( for a discussion of issues , see Norman , 1979 ) . |