Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therese can not be Snow White or Cinderella , but she can be Queen of the Night . |
| 2 | ‘ Everybody still calls her Mary Penrose but she should be Mary Parkes . |
| 3 | Not people who are experienced in object programming , but who may be expert in legal or manufacturing objects , for instance . |
| 4 | ‘ But we must be miles from any buildings ! ’ said Gurder . |
| 5 | Of course , with the present technology , each country can decide for itself whether to re-transmit on their own networks , but there 'll be videotapeS too which will reach some people , at least , in most countries . |
| 6 | ‘ Dinner finished early this evening because of the convention , but there 'll be snacks in the bar if you 're hungry . |
| 7 | Well I think most of them will be within the two months of the wedding but there 'll be enquiries now perhaps for a wedding at Christmas or even next spring . |
| 8 | But there 'll be ways of seeing daylight . |
| 9 | It is difficult to obtain precise figures of private sector investment in the inner cities , but there may be reasons to doubt industry 's willingness to commit billions of pounds to inner city developments . |
| 10 | But there may be reasons to think that they may reject the null hypothesis of speculative efficiency even when the latter is in fact true . |
| 11 | But there may be things which are forbidden by your law . ’ |
| 12 | Erm , well I think that er , the report of these er , resolutions and er , of this resolution , and er , so er , but there may be questions or comments on it , so no alright , then er , let me put it to you . |
| 13 | Thus , everyone may have the same wage rate , w , per hour and the same unearned income , M , but there may be differences in the tastes for leisure leading to differences in hours worked , L. As a result , measured income may vary — even though all individuals have the same endowments and market opportunities . |
| 14 | But there may be cases where the landlord absolves his tenant from performance in ways which release the other covenantors . |
| 15 | Their positioning is generally flexible , but there may be restrictions on the number you can install . |
| 16 | But a procedural error that has followed the making of an order — a failure to serve the order is the obvious example but there may be others — can , in my opinion , be dealt with by the judge who made the order . |
| 17 | Figure 2 shows one way of displaying the interrelationships between the key topics , but there may be others . |
| 18 | The , I 've only had only suggestion erm put to me , but there may be others . |
| 19 | For those theses which were read , and were subsequently not cited , Kochen 's fourth alternative contains some of the possible reasons for non-citation , but there may be others , and it is not possible to choose between them from the evidence currently available . |
| 20 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 21 | A whole school concert is always popular but there may be problems in that the demand for tickets may well outweigh the supply . |
| 22 | But there may be problems getting individual companies to follow suit . |
| 23 | Outdoors , there is space , but there may be problems with light if the occasion is held during hours of darkness as well as uncertainties about the weather . |
| 24 | It will maintain a sales and support network in the 150 countries where it now has a presence , but there may be cuts in both Wang employee numbers and the type of facilities it will operate . |
| 25 | But there may be pirates hiding among them . |
| 26 | Such experimental evidence can of course be extremely valuable , but there may be occasions when it needs to be augmented by observations of children in more natural surroundings . |
| 27 | But there may be occasions when you want to be sure that every child has an appropriate role . |
| 28 | In a few clinics there is an appointments system which at least ensures that the patient is seen when he or she expects to be seen , but there may be delays in getting an appointment . |
| 29 | He says it wo n't become clear until there 's a new owner but there may be redundancies . |
| 30 | But there would be lights in the chapel , Isabel assured herself , peering ahead for a sign of them and flinching from the feel of the rough stone beneath her palm . |