Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am victim of my own background . |
| 2 | But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was . |
| 3 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind Mrs Meadows being pleased , and I can understand it because it makes things a lot easier with Mr Meadows , but she 's sort of sympathising with Mum because I 'm not engaged ! ’ |
| 5 | Yeah , but she 's sort of really naive and really |
| 6 | Not I 'm not blaming Marianne , but she 's sort of picked up things from the media and the media have said oh rejoice attitude , but that particular rejoice was because there were no casualties |
| 7 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 8 | My , but we 're snobs at that age , are n't we ? ) |
| 9 | But we were opposites in temperament . |
| 10 | In Colchester , where Red Lion Books has competition from both Waterstones and Dillons , Peter Donaldson reported sales on a par with last year : ‘ A week before Christmas we were about 15% down , but we were saves by strong last-minute sales . ’ |
| 11 | But we were sort of , begin to look at |
| 12 | And as for ad spots during the games , they 're there all right , but they 're part of life , accepted , they do n't annoy anyone . ’ |
| 13 | But they 're part of being human . ’ |
| 14 | but they 're part of a much bigger organization who |
| 15 | They 're not proper tartan but they 're sort of like that . |
| 16 | They 're green but they 're sort of really , really juicy and crunchy . |
| 17 | Yeah oh I du n no but they 're sort of too thick and gooey . |
| 18 | And although you know , to all intents and purposes , those appointments are inviolate , I know that they 're in pink on the slide , but they are inviolate in terms of I 'm not going to cede that time to anyone else . |
| 19 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 20 | But they are problems in themselves . |
| 21 | ‘ But they are cowards at heart and hang back until they are sure they are safe , even then leaving themselves a route for escape . |
| 22 | I have heard of mythagos which have succeeded , but they are part of the myth that says tumuli and fire guarded valleys are the way to the Otherworld . |
| 23 | The darkness of which Hilton speaks , and the darkness of the penitential understanding in the Passion meditations , may belong to different stages of development in the knowledge of God , but they are part of a continuous pattern of experience of death and resurrection which underlies them all . |
| 24 | The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward . |
| 25 | Pseudo-objectives may be set in terms of size and assets but they are descriptions of the general intention to keep going and getting bigger . |
| 26 | Sometimes the Orcs ally with the Dark Elves , but they are creatures of shifting loyalties , and are equally likely to attack their erstwhile allies and rampage through the Dark Elf lands . |
| 27 | She was to refer to them wryly as her ‘ yearly knitting ’ , but they are classics of their kind , deftly constructed with strong characterization and a meticulous prose style . |
| 28 | But they are confessions of the faith that we have , the trust that we have in Jesus Christ . |
| 29 | But they are shepherds in the Andes . |
| 30 | But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about . |