Example sentences of "but be [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , there is a stronger awareness that graves are not merely places where artefacts can be obtained for study but are reservoirs of data reflecting numerous activities of a past society in addition to mortuary rituals . |
| 2 | They argued that categories such as crime and mental illness ( and they could have added child abuse ) do not occur naturally , but are products of social definition . |
| 3 | Such part numbers are of no particular interest on the hypertext side , though they form part of the text displayed on the screen , but are objects of special interest to the dispatch system . |
| 4 | Historical and sociological studies of the curriculum have shown us that school subjects are not simply rationally selected for explicit educational aims but are reflections of larger social and political forces . |
| 5 | We are not in competition but are part of the same team , and so , in that spirit , I would like to turn the spotlight on our existing systems and make some fairly revolutionary suggestions . |
| 6 | My thesis will be that events that we commonly call miracles are not supernatural , but are part of a spectrum of more-or-less improbable natural events . |
| 7 | But our main point is that the problems that research is designed to solve , throw light upon or shape up , do not stand alone but are part of a wider context . |
| 8 | These codes are rather different from the grammars of structuralist poetics because they do not have the status of a model , but are instances of parole which have no ultimate langue . |
| 9 | It is the fact that the shareholder has rights in the company as well as against it , which , in legal theory , distinguishes the member from the debenture holder whose rights are also defined by contract ( this time the debenture itself and not the articles ) but are rights against the company and , if the debenture is secured , in its property , but never in the company itself . |
| 10 | The curved lines are not stress trajectories but are contours of stress concentration for stress at right angles and parallel to the plane of the crack . |
| 11 | But dialect features are not errors in this sense at all , but are characteristics of a pupil 's native language . |
| 12 | The basic motivation of all research is the conviction that things are not just as they appear to be , but are examples of covert categories and relations of one sort or another . |
| 13 | Many of the theories that are published are not really theories of psychological processes at all , but are theories of experimental phenomena . |
| 14 | All these ‘ signs ’ of ‘ inadequacy ’ are nothing of the kind but are indicators of poverty and powerlessness . |
| 15 | Moral association is a human relationship based on ‘ the mutual recognition of certain conditions which not only specify right and wrong in conduct , but are prescriptions of obligations ’ . |
| 16 | However , we did not have the very high rates on many goods such as television sets , which are described as luxury goods but are essentials for many people — rates which we inherited and which I understand that the Labour party would consider again . |
| 17 | Helmets exemplified this ‘ new status ’ for ‘ real polises ’ , for they were not worn in the city force , but were part of the apparel of the surrounding Northumberland County force , whose immediate boundary was only some three miles north of our divisional centre . |
| 18 | These were not just domestic problems but were part of Britain 's larger task of achieving recovery in its international economic position ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 19 | Pews were not personal possessions that could be sold or bequeathed but were part of the property of each farm , tenement or cottage , they passed to the new owner or occupier once the property was sold or transferred . |
| 20 | Two locomotives ( ’ North Star ’ and ‘ Lord of the Isles ’ ) survived for some years at the Swindon works , but were judges to be taking up too much room and Churchward ordered that they be scrapped after the Science Museum had turned them down . |
| 21 | In a television address on the same day , Pérez said that the ensuing ministerial changes did not mean that a coalition government had been created , but were evidence of the COPEI 's " sense of responsibility " in agreeing to " demonstrate its solidarity with the Venezuelan democratic government " . |
| 22 | Instead , communities were always approached initially through persons encountered directly or indirectly in the course of everyday living who had no institutional status in the communities , but were members of them . |
| 23 | That was because they tended to imply that beliefs , laws , and principles were not based on eternal unchanging principles but were aspects of the type of society in which they occurred . |
| 24 | The realities which provided the raw material for the new images were not confined to youth , but were issues of social class , race , poverty , work , democracy , and political harmony . |
| 25 | The Zuwaya and their rivals were not inert , but were participants in a national economy which presented more modern features than other nations ( Tunisia , Algeria , Morocco ) in which nonetheless tribal affiliations were of decreasing importance . |
| 26 | Some of the earliest TV ‘ panellists ’ , who would later have been chat show hosts but were regulars on games like What 's My Line ? in the restricted TV hours of the 1950s , were well known columnists in the popular dailies . |
| 27 | The explanation may be that the figurines were not intended for use as ornaments but were votives to he left in shrines : they had a symbolic , not an aesthetic , role to play . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose , ’ said Suvarov , paying no attention to her rudeness or the incipient hysteria in her voice , ‘ because it was so important … not just fighting it , but being part of it , doing one 's best and living more intensely over a longer time than one had before . ’ |
| 29 | Logistically the route breaks into 15 convenient ‘ day-stages ’ averaging around eight hours walking , but being Switzerland with its excellent public transport system , there are often less-strenuous options by cable car or post-bus . |
| 30 | Turning a blind eye to his presence was one thing , he said , but being party to malicious damage quite another . |