Example sentences of "[be] but " in BNC.

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1 You 're but a sprout of a Squat . ’
2 Yes but then they 're but nevertheless they could n't
3 They 're but we do .
4 So we got a thousand letters to do that 's all , well it might be over I do n't know they 're but
5 And I said to them they 're but they 're quite , quite expensive , the cats .
6 They 're paying their bills , they 're but there 's nothing in there !
7 Well talk about you think you 're but that 's what Gemma said , Gemma said why do n't we go out and have a spending spree
8 Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ .
9 is in contrast to the behaviour of income distribution , where inequity has been but little reduced during the same periods , and which shows extreme relative rigidity and concentration in comparison with the greater equalizing capacity of the educational system .
10 As he lay dying , a kinsman , Sir John Sinclair , asked how he did : ‘ Right evil , cousin , but thanked be God there hath been but few of mine ancestors that hath died in their beds . ’
11 The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents .
12 The stillness at dawn had been but a prelude .
13 Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened .
14 I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide .
15 He was clearly far more remote from the succession than William III , or at least his wife , had been but he was a Protestant and he duly landed at Greenwich on 18 September 1714 , with two mistresses in tow , both very plain .
16 But what have we been but Frank and Saracen , yoked like camel and ass to the plough ?
17 Although Grant was the expert of the group , they both knew enough to realise that the equipment stacked around was sophisticated , and far too much for Titron if she had been but an ordinary container ship .
18 ‘ It must be the full moon , ’ Lee grumbled , melting butter in a saucepan , and then remembered that the moon had been but a sliver the previous night .
19 Since then she has been but rarely seen here and so it is a special treat to have works on paper by her ( from the 1950s ) at Nicole Klagsbrun ( until 17 April ) .
20 She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved .
21 Well I could have been but I could n't have voted .
22 Outside the courts , however , Pontius Pilate has been but one of many who have claimed , more or less sincerely , not to know what truth is .
23 The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 .
24 Er it may have been but you ca n't we have n't got much evidence for that .
25 ( B ) in their design office and the three defendants ( A ) were officials of the A.E.S.D. Union , two of them also being employees of B.O.A.C. C had been but was no longer a member of the Union .
26 Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents .
27 Camille knew that it could have been but understood that Sam was putting dinner off until the last possible moment in case the boy from the bistro turned up , breathless and apologetic , because his motorbike had broken down and he 'd had to walk .
28 Oh I sh I suppose they might have been but where they were made I , cos I mean you get like they used to b they used to deal in all shoes , no doubt they got them from them .
29 Old-fashioned they may have been but they proved a point , which today 's deregulated TV stations would do well to heed , that what the public actually want to see is characterization , plot , and relationships .
30 ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company .
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