Example sentences of "but we be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's conclusions , we 're not subject to consultation but we 're instead given wide and extensive publicity in a series of elaborate video roadshows , with information cascading down . |
| 2 | — But we 're just married a couple of months . |
| 3 | One woman activist summed up the mood : ‘ We get crumbs from the table but we 're never allowed a seat . ’ |
| 4 | But we 're still perplexed as to how the accident could have happened and we 're still looking for any motive for murder or suicide . ’ |
| 5 | But , as I say , this is about ten years ago but we 're now run into another problem whereby the erm institutions are beginning go back again and want to project their own images , right the way through . |
| 6 | But we are also bound to accept the Old Testament . |
| 7 | But we are soon warned that the young officer in the Venturer hides in his memory the image of a girl met years before , so that his response to a strange night-vision seems entirely logical . |
| 8 | It may be the case that we are capable of deriving a specific conclusion ( 7c ) from specific premises ( 7a ) and ( 7b ) , via deductive inference , but we are rarely asked to do so in the everyday discourse we encounter . |
| 9 | The usual advice is to prepare the ground by digging two spits deep , but we are rarely given an explanation why , and for that very reason , therefore , we do not see the correct way to do it . |
| 10 | But we are reliably informed that Angus will be back on his feet and more importantly that seat tomorrow . |
| 11 | Versatility is all very well , but we are now expected to be accountants , personnel managers and lawyers as well as dermatologists , psychiatrists , obstetricians and general physicians . |
| 12 | Slemen added : ‘ We accept we must take a back seat to the national side , but we are still determined to succeed where the Midlands and England B failed . ’ |
| 13 | Attitudes in the media are slowly changing , but we are still presented with stereotyped images of older people . |
| 14 | Jason Donovan is not seeking the full amount controversially awarded him by the jury in the High Court , but we are still required to pay him the sum of £95,000 in reduced costs and damages . |
| 15 | But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did . |
| 16 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 17 | But we are still left with the problem of testing . |
| 18 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 19 | 1993 itself will undoubtedly be equally as difficult a year in many ways at 1992 but we are better equipped now that new foundations have been laid for building an effective and successful engineering and construction consultancy business for the nineties . |
| 20 | During the evening , not only did we sit down to an excellent meal but we were also entertained . |
| 21 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 22 | ‘ But we were well organised and , defensively , each and every player earned his pay this week — even in an age of cut-backs . ’ |
| 23 | Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant , grim-faced and tight-lipped , to slog on alone . |
| 24 | Sometimes we took food for Dr Sambataro too , as his wife was not well and could not go often , but we were never allowed to see him . |
| 25 | I remember sitting in the cockpit and being cooked by the sun for a few hours , but we were never scrambled . ’ |
| 26 | We have been told that finances for health and safety will be found but we were never told from where that money would come from . |
| 27 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 28 | This was also controlled by a private club , but we were sometimes given a day 's fishing and generally managed to come home with a few trout . |
| 29 | Five would be disappointed , but we were always kept on the hop . |