Example sentences of "but [pron] be [noun] of " 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 | But we were sort of , begin to look at |
| 8 | The direct survival of the metal originals has been patchy , but there is evidence of a fairly large-scale metal-working industry in Minoan Crete , producing copper and bronze vessels . |
| 9 | It is a profitable business but there is evidence of some slack time , perhaps this is a learning curve effect . |
| 10 | But there is suspicion of ‘ the domination of one person ( usually the organist ) standing in the way of developing other considerable talent reserves ’ . |
| 11 | Not very much because the moon is quite a long way away but there is amount of attraction . |
| 12 | If L grants a lease to T and then T assigns it to A , there is no privity of contract between L and A since there has been no direct transaction between them ; but there is privity of estate , for A has become L's tenant by acquiring the estate which L created and which is held of L as the immediate landlord . |
| 13 | In the absence of a tax , free market equilibrium is at E , but there is over-consumption of cigarettes . |
| 14 | The brokers are scheduled to start again from scratch today , but there is talk of rival firms telling the Kuwaitis that they would like a go . |
| 15 | But there is talk of citizenship involving a ‘ duty to work ’ in the United States , which could find itself transplanted to this country — indeed it already exists in some of the social security regulations — or a legal duty to control children , which is what is implied by an idea under consideration by the government to make parents responsible for fines imposed on their children . |
| 16 | ‘ Meanwhile I 've just signed with Stock Aitken and Waterman to produce my next records , and there are plenty of things happening on the television score — it 's all rather secret but there is talk of a sit-com this autumn . ’ |
| 17 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |
| 18 | But there are areas of fraud which still need to be tackled , such as the complicated matter of deceiving a machine . |
| 19 | Keith Richardson says it was a welcome win and the 4 tries were very good , but there are areas of concern which the players are aware of . |
| 20 | What I recommend you , you look at , I do n't think it 's on your reading list , no it 's not , it 's not on your reading list , but there are copies of it in the library . |
| 21 | But there are dangers of over-simplification hidden in such complaints , which need to be examined . |
| 22 | The role of antrectomy in these apparently gastrin dependent tumours is still obscure , but there are reports of regression of fundic carcinoids after antrectomy and subsequent return to normal segum gastrin concentrations . |
| 23 | This distinction can be limpid if the artist is directly interviewed , and the interview is verbatim ; but there are problems of evidence with filming and tape recordings , as well as with interviews , since the viewer or reader is unlikely to know how they have been edited . |
| 24 | Some will be recognized as being of architectural and historic value , but there are others of more modest appearance which would nevertheless be sorely missed if they disappeared . |
| 25 | At least , I assume this card ( which I am returning ) concerns the man who loves collecting pubic hair — it 's much too learned and technical for me to understand most of it , but there are bits of it which do seem to make it clear . |
| 26 | Use to which the information system will be put impinges upon most of the earlier issues , but there are elements of the nature of use which can be considered in their own right . |
| 27 | This ‘ Rock Soap Opera ’ has the usual self-indulgent moments , but there are lashings of high points to make up for it . |
| 28 | But there are pockets of vacancies in other specialist areas , notably in the financial services sector , corporate finance , taxation , training and forensic accounting . |
| 29 | But there are signs of blossoming entrepreneurial spirit . |
| 30 | But there are signs of haste in the recording or editing process — at 23'04 ’ in the first movement ( eight bars after fig. 69 ) the first piccolo appears to play G and A flat together , as though two takes have been momentarily overlaid ; then there is a stray timpani stroke at 9′52″ in the third movement , what sounds like a stray clonk on the xylophone at 3′54″ in the finale , and , most unfortunate of all , a discrepancy of tuning between the timpani and the rest of the orchestra later in this movement ( at 4′25″ , in the return of the introduction ) . |