Example sentences of "but these be [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But these are restrictions you have to live with on a budget machine .
2 But these are restrictions you have to live with on a budget machine .
3 Private lives require a sturdy minimum of investment in bricks and mortar : there are , for sure , numerous disadvantages in such private lives , but these are disadvantages which many people in St Ann 's might well like to taste .
4 But these are women who have not very much experience of a particular current within British feminism which sees men very much as the enemy , though they went through a tremendous process of political change during the strike and with the development of their organisation , many marriages , for example , split up and the women gained a whole new identity of themselves as individual women .
5 But these are people I like reading ; it does n't go further than that .
6 I , I compare test matches to more like the chess game you know it 's slower and you sort of you know whatever but these are people who would , did not to test games you know they did n't sort of say okay we 've now met this Pack a Ball thing where you know and everything else .
7 The monomeric form of the crystal protein varies from a M r of 27 000 up to 135 000 , but these are protoxins which are cleaved by enzymes in the insect gut to give active toxins with M r from 24 000 to 65 000 .
8 But these are exceptions which prove the rule .
9 But these are ideas I feel might be worth an airing . ’
10 In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic .
11 But these were questions you did not ask .
12 But these were matters which preoccupied theologians ( whose intellectual reputation was not high ) , philosophers and artists ( who were admired but somewhat in the manner in which wealthy men admire the diamonds they can afford to buy their women ) and social critics , of the left or right , who did not like the kind of society they lived in or found themselves forced into .
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