Example sentences of "but [pron] be [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am Earth Commander , and you are nobody ! |
| 2 | I 'm not sure how long wills take to prove , but I was Aunt Emily 's only living relative , and it 's always been understood that the place would come to me . |
| 3 | ‘ But you were Mrs Darcy 's school friend . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But you were Mr Russell 's only child , my dear , and you must not doubt that he loved you , even if he did n't always make it perfectly apparent . ’ |
| 5 | Confusingly , a Gould is in charge of Smith 's campaign office at the House of Commons , but she 's Jeanette Gould , the daughter of Joyce Gould of Walworth Road fame ( and Keith Barron MP 's assistant ) . |
| 6 | But she was Mrs Love . |
| 7 | Please forgive my lack of knowledge but who is Victor Meldrew ? |
| 8 | But who is Lady Selvedge , after all ? ’ she asked on a note of challenge . |
| 9 | On The Tonight Show , Johnny Carson did a whole monologue on the theme of , ‘ yes , but who is Cameron Nielson the Second ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry Tiffany , I 've seen this stuff in the shops , but we 're burger people , you know . ’ |
| 11 | But there is Company Standing Training Committee , which comprises people from divisions which looks at those issues , run by Jenny . |
| 12 | But there is communications point as well . |
| 13 | But there are irrigation pumps available which will pump slurry for miles . |
| 14 | But there are success stories . |
| 15 | The capital city , Jakarta , accounts for around 40 per cent of the Indonesian market but there are Guinness drinkers on many of the 13,677 islands in the archipelago and they also need to be served . |
| 16 | But there are trace amounts of other elements entrapped within the flint . |
| 17 | Such a college would admit students at about the age of sixteen , but there are risks attendant upon such a scheme and only ‘ a limited number of experiments ’ would be approved . |
| 18 | Officially they are national heroes , but there are revisionist versions of history which make some , including Crockett , rather less heroic . |
| 19 | The wall is crenellated but there are iron bars between the gaps . |
| 20 | ‘ No but there are policy matters I shall probably be consulted … ’ |
| 21 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |
| 23 | Well there 's certain parts that just the basic , like you could , I could go down and show you , but there 's others parts it takes a lot of years |
| 24 | But there was Hyacinth Scragg . |
| 25 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 26 | I strode well away from the Land Rover but there were cockle shells everywhere and a few needle whelks , like minute unicorns ' horns less than half an inch long . |
| 27 | But there were life readings in the walls , floors and turbine-generators within the factory itself . |
| 28 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but they 're Micky Banks 's chums … ’ |
| 30 | Still leaves three two three or four beats in a bar , but they 're compound times . |