Example sentences of "but this [noun] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 2 | Nursing and midwifery have begun to develop the accoutrements of a profession , but this development has been impeded by the burgeoning of lay-managers in the NHS , who have considerable power , but not necessarily any professional expertise , and whose prime loyalty is to accountants and not to patients . |
| 3 | But this CD has been on my player many times since it arrived . |
| 4 | None of the models has ever shopped at Oxfam , but this assignment has been an inspiration . |
| 5 | But this doctrine has been largely supplanted by a later doctrine that such personality is real , and is analogous to the personality of individuals . |
| 6 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 7 | For example , with regard to overcrowding , 14 per cent of the population of Great Britain lived at more than two persons to a room in 1921 ; but this proportion had been halved by 1939 . |
| 8 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 9 | But this cold has been so bad today . |
| 10 | Bt strains have traditionally been classified by serotyping , but this system has been unable to cope with the vast number of new strains discovered recently . |
| 11 | Attempts have been made to distinguish predation from scavenging ( Binford , 1981 ; Bunn , 1982 ; Shipman , 1983b , 1986 ) , but this work has been based entirely on analysis of large mammals ( Behrensmeyer , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ July and August are normally quiet , but this year has been exceptional and the latest interest rate rise wo n't help , ’ he said . |
| 13 | During the crisis which preceded the Civil War , an attempt had been made to tie the Crown to regular Parliaments with the Triennial Act of 1641 , but this Act had been repealed in 1664 and it was not until 1694 that an Act guaranteeing triennial Parliaments was passed . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the route was chipped by persons unknown before the first ascent , but this misdemeanour has been rectified by Julian , who filled the offending holds with resin . |
| 15 | In the past , chartered accountants have also been able to charge higher rates because of their qualification , but this premium has been put under increasing pressure at the smaller end of the market because of the recession . |
| 16 | But that had been a piercing of her body , a searing of her mind — but this encounter had been the captivation of her soul . |
| 17 | The circular arrangement above the Hare was assigned , originally , to the late-third century ( Neal 1981 , no. 25 ) , but this dating has been amended , and the pavement now assigned to the fourth century ( perhaps as late as the second quarter of the fourth century : Cirencester Excavations III , forthcoming ) . |
| 18 | Ratsiraka had attempted to declare the country a federation of six states in August 1991 [ see p. 38378 ] , but this declaration had been disregarded by subsequent governments . |
| 19 | He is a largely forgotten naturalist now but this book has been reprinted several times and would be worth finding in a library to start off an interest in deer in children . |
| 20 | Once upon a time there was in the UK a Director of Flight Safety , but this office has been abolished . |
| 21 | But this policy has been pursued along with changes that have allowed the very rich to increase still further their own wealth holdings , while simultaneously excluding the very poorest from this process . |
| 22 | Initially it was planned to have two mid-mounted eight-cylinder 1,000 hp automobile engines driving two scimitar-shaped multi-bladed pusher propellers located aft of the tailplanes , but this arrangement has been dropped in favour of mounting the propellers on pylons above the wing trailing-edges apparently to enable the racer to be float-equipped for an attempt at the six-decades-old world airspeed record for seaplanes . |
| 23 | But this view has been challenged in a recent issue of Genetics by Barry Hall of Rochester University , following on from research done in 1988 by John Cairns , a respected molecular biologist . |
| 24 | It is argued by some workers in artificial intelligence ( such as Boden ) , drawing analogies from neurophysiology , that consciousness is a function of the degree of complexity and connectedness of networks — neural or artificial — but this view has been strongly criticised by Penrose as simplistic and lacking the necessary objective evidence . |
| 25 | The common law rule on this was laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cresswell v. Sirl but this rule has been replaced , so far as the protection of livestock against dogs is concerned , by section 9 of the Animals Act . |
| 26 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 27 | The panel meetings are currently convened by the ACL : E&SS but this role has been performed by others in the past . |