Example sentences of "but [pron] be [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV and Mitsubishi Electric Corp duly announced their agreement to work together on development of Flash memory chips , designing 16M-bit parts using a 0.5 micron CMOS process : the agreement is considered to be of equal value to both companies , so no financial compensation will be made by either ; SGS-Thomson has begun production of 1M Flash memories but no-one is doing 16Ms yet . |
2 | ‘ But them 's enemy ! ’ |
3 | But I am water , too , and flow , |
4 | But I am victim of my own background . |
5 | But I am Earth Commander , and you are nobody ! |
6 | ‘ But I AM Nutmeg , ’ said Nutmeg . |
7 | Vicky or I , as a singing nun perhaps , would skip forward to chant : ‘ Oh , but I am mother prioress/And they would wall me up ! /Sir , have mercy , sir , have mercy … ’ |
8 | ‘ Oh , but I am Alice . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I 'm not sure how long wills take to prove , but I was Aunt Emily 's only living relative , and it 's always been understood that the place would come to me . |
11 | ‘ I was a mathematics don at Cambridge living a rather sheltered life , but I was part of a group that enjoyed playing cards . |
12 | But I was mummy 's best |
13 | Derek cracked up , but I was dumbstruck — super embarrassed — for about thirty seconds , and went as red as a radish . |
14 | ‘ Maybe I heard you when you told me you were going home , but I was miles away . |
15 | I mean , I 've put files equals twenty yeah but I 'm DOS equals high with a H I G H , yes . |
16 | But I 'm Jessel , and I have Jessel 's life to lead . |
17 | ‘ But I 'm spot on . |
18 | Yeah but yours is drug induced , this is just beauty and , and love your neighbour . |
19 | But theirs are reasons which apply to them and which do not depend on , i.e. are not meant to reflect , reasons which apply to their subjects . |
20 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
21 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
22 | No but you 're Dorset as well ! |
23 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
24 | ‘ But you 're miles thinner than me . ’ |
25 | ‘ But you were Mrs Darcy 's school friend . ’ |
26 | ‘ But you were friends even in those early days ? ’ |
27 | ‘ But you were Mr Russell 's only child , my dear , and you must not doubt that he loved you , even if he did n't always make it perfectly apparent . ’ |
28 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
29 | Yeah , but she 's sort of really naive and really |
30 | 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 |