Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this book is not only to show how threats to our heritage can be successfully resisted but also to suggest ways of putting forward constructive alternatives . |
| 2 | He will be badly injured but will return to the Highlands and live for many years . ’ |
| 3 | Who would be most to blame but those who have so long suppressed it ? |
| 4 | If your opinion is asked , it may be gently given but , in nearly every case , it is neither right nor effective to try to end a relationship forcibly . |
| 5 | Likewise there may be much straining but only scanty stool . |
| 6 | With many more illustrations , a shorter text rigorously checked and edited , decent notes and index , the book would be greatly improved but is is sad to reflect on a great opportunity missed . |
| 7 | The travelling showman William Haggar 's The Life of Charles Peace ( 1905 ) may be less achieved but the sympathy it elicits for the ingenious villain who had been hanged in 1879 marks it out as a piece of genuine popular entertainment . |
| 8 | And say erm where he would be best used but there have been a couple of errors caused by his bad eyesight . |
| 9 | There is , as we shall see , pressure from many influential sources for the Constitution not only to be further amended but also to be radically altered . |
| 10 | The approach may be more considered but Burns still sounds like he was force-fed Brillo Pads as a nipper . |
| 11 | As the documents make clear , many of these so-called inspectors will not be educationally qualified but will be drawn , in the senior chief inspector 's words , from the top of the Clapham omnibus . |
| 12 | Cramlington seems to be still planned but in the inner city we are now very definitely after the planners . |
| 13 | Whilst noting the developments in human rights since the unbanning of political organizations in February 1990 , Amnesty expressed its concern at the number of killings in which security force members appeared to be directly implicated but where the security forces failed to take appropriate action . |
| 14 | On the more general scheme allowing companies the option to pay FIDs , where ACT would be also paid but unused surpluses would be repayable if the FIDS came from foreign profits , the ICAEW said it was not generous and unnecessarily complex . |
| 15 | He believes rescue missions should be carefully planned but do serve a purpose . |
| 16 | This may be temporarily quashing but it does not satisfy … |
| 17 | Because of the constraints of space , the number of guests had to be severely limited but during the afternoon more visitors were invited to look around the Lodge and see for themselves this latest jewel in the Association 's welfare crown . |
| 18 | Most members of the ruling élite , though , were becoming increasingly aware that Western contacts were inevitable , and should not merely be passively endured but exploited to Japan 's advantage . |
| 19 | Experts in international law agreed that , should Noriega succeed in establishing his claim for POW status , not only would the terms of his current imprisonment be radically altered but also the scope of any possible sentence . |
| 20 | The words may be brilliant , the sentences may be perfectly constructed but it has n't got that life in it that the more spontaneous talking will have , and it 's less persuasive . |
| 21 | SIR , — In your April 24 editorial you state that the risk for patients exposed to an HIV-infected healthcare worker ( HCW ) can not be accurately calculated but must be small . |
| 22 | Most of the final parts of this story can not be independently verified but events appear to have run as follows . |
| 23 | Well , I 'll help you , I 'll be round , I 'll be here helping but I must I want to get on with some work . |
| 24 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 25 | The pizzas should be well done but remain pale and soft enough to fold in the hand to eat . |
| 26 | Young Anna is going to be well heeled but she will have to come to some arrangement with Beryl and Beryl would prefer , much , to deal with the devil himself . |
| 27 | As a result , the Commission — still with 8,000 officials , who may be well paid but are nevertheless overworked — is dealing with more and more material not only initiated by itself in its legislative function of making proposals , but increasingly at the request of the politicians in the European Council . |
| 28 | The tank should be well planted but have areas of open water for swimming . |
| 29 | Consequently one 's own pleas and the sufferer 's promises may all be well meant but nonetheless all equally ineffective in controlling the longer term progression of addictive disease . |
| 30 | This has yet to be fully explored but one publication at least gives useful guidance in this . |