Example sentences of "but they [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know but they 're branded as hooligans because they go and watch the sport . |
| 2 | but they 're coated are n't they ? |
| 3 | In other words you 've got the trading account which is how 's trading , the committee account , the petty cash and the wages box are part and parcel of the trading but they 're kept as separate entities within the organization . |
| 4 | The rest had to be done , but they 're called enabling tasks . |
| 5 | There are tall black iron gates but they 're hooked open so I just drive through and up a drive of pink bricks to the door . |
| 6 | Yes , WordPerfect does have drop-down menus , but they 're accessed via an unmemorable key combination — Alt plus the = key , although you can change the default to something more sensible , like plain Alt — and the keyboard shortcuts are equally forgettable . |
| 7 | But they 're bound to . |
| 8 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |
| 9 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 10 | Most figures are shown over the page , and pa in para two five , but they 're calculated in a different way . |
| 11 | But they 're determined to go through with it . |
| 12 | Two but they 're grown up . |
| 13 | You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged . |
| 14 | Piano clusters , multi-divided strings , glissandi in harps , in brass , in timpani , semi-aleatoric sections , players breathing through wind instruments : one ca n't list them all , but they 're packed with bewildering rapidity and truly remarkable skill into a comparatively small structural space . |
| 15 | They s moor them but they 're employed by the Ipswich Port Authority , the boatmen , these other men were n't . |
| 16 | The Firm uses a few muscle-brains in the Middle East and so on , but they 're employed at several removes and a lot 's done to make sure they stay overseas . |
| 17 | ‘ God , but they 're tanned , ’ Jessica replied . |
| 18 | But they 're credited with a double X. But I 'm also aware in the context of the A fifty nine sector , and this may well be your point , Mr , that Leeds would have , to put it succinctly , a dim view , about a new settlement in that sector because of the fact it may draw off erm regeneration effort in in the Leeds metropolitan district . |
| 19 | But they 're gone , and you 're scrabbling around for work . |
| 20 | Erm my honourable friend will remember that er under er part two of the Maastricht treaty erm titled to citizenship er article eight er not only are citizens of the union erm given certain powers but they 're given rights conferred by the treaty which should be subject to the duties imposed thereby . |
| 21 | And it will be used for transplants of kidneys and other organs , there are already of course many transplants done at the Churchill , but they 're done in very cramped conditions , and this will provide not only better conditions for the patients , but also new research laboratories , and of course with transplants preventing rejection of the graft is very important , and that 's what the Churchill is particularly good at . |
| 22 | was , but they 're related |
| 23 | Investment bonds we have n't covered , and they are a variation of a unit trust really , but they 're issued by live companies , and you can do other things with them , and they have got tax advantages . |
| 24 | Cyclists can use any of Britain 's 20,000 miles of bridleways and certain tracks , but they 're banned from the 100,000 miles of footpaths which causes tension . |
| 25 | but they 're bonded to different groupings so , for example , if one had something like this er , let's call that see three , page seven if I had something like that that central carbon there and when they draw these things at an exam paper , do n't expect it to be the central one . |
| 26 | But they 're paid half as much as their continental colleagues for doing exactly the same job . |
| 27 | Here , of course , weeds do have more space to grow , but they 're discouraged by constant cultivation . |
| 28 | Erm , where possibly like the , the anorexic , well I do n't know cos I 'm not speaking from an anorexic point of view , but I think the , the point we 're saying , emotions are there but they 're dealt with in a , a different way , you know they perhaps starve themselves erm , to sort of like , erm you know ge , get across these emotions , to deal with these emotions . |
| 29 | But they 're driven to make the best of the future . |
| 30 | As you 'd expect strong traces of the surging Pixies sound remain , but they 're delivered with a more melodic , playful edge , almost as if splitting up the band has allowed the real Black to emerge . |